Waldorf School Moving to Bed Stuy Church
The blog A Child Grows in Brooklyn served up some big news yesterday: Apparently the Brooklyn Waldorf School, which has been located on St. Felix Street in Fort Greene for the last few years, has finally found a permanent home. The progressive K-8 program will take over the Claver Castle at 19 Claver Place between…
The blog A Child Grows in Brooklyn served up some big news yesterday: Apparently the Brooklyn Waldorf School, which has been located on St. Felix Street in Fort Greene for the last few years, has finally found a permanent home. The progressive K-8 program will take over the Claver Castle at 19 Claver Place between Franklin and Bedford Avenues in Bed Stuy. The castle is part of the St. Peter Claver Church across the street at 29 Claver Place. According to A Child Grows, the new space will enable the school to expand up to grade 8 and to offer a range of new programs including woodworking, athletics and farming. Rogers Marvel Architects is already working away on the master plan and the school hopes to open in September 2011.
Brooklyn Waldorf A New Home? [A Child Grows via TRD] GMAP
I’ll believe it when I see it. They were supposed to move to Clifton Place a few years ago and that fell through at the last moment.
I’ll believe it when I see it. They were supposed to move to Clifton Place a few years ago and that fell through at the last moment.
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Definitely great news.
MM, in my (unofficially protestant) school some of the teachers used to throw chalk-board dusters (the wooden ones) at “disruptive” pupils. We had caning too until it got banned. While the education was of a high standard, the fear-of-authority instilling was even more robust.
I think it’s great, too. I’m all for reusing perfectly good buildings, and turning a school back into a school is a no brainer. Gives the neighborhood a boost, too. Rogers Marvel is certainly getting a lot of work in Bed Stuy. Good for them, too.
I only went to Catholic School in kindergarten, as we moved away from NYC when I was 6, but it made an impression. I got my hand wacked with a ruler for coloring outside the lines in my coloring book. Talk about stifling creativity in children. That said, my mother taught in Catholic School for many years, and I know her students got a quality education.
Some elementary schools in Berkeley have the students learn basic farming. The food they grow is served in the school cafeteria.
LOL! no, farming in brooklyn IS ridiculous when youre a moonface and all of a sudden you claim to be a farmer. teaching kids farming skills early on i have no problem with, in fact it might serve as a segway to get them to eat healthy. it’s the whole urban rooftop farmers that i sorta find destestable. not farming itself.
*rob*
Sorry rob, I mistook you for another rob that thinks farming in Brooklyn is ridiculous.
Now that it’s going to be taught in that school, be on the look out for more farms in Park Slope. It seems the sun shines the brightest in that neighborhood.