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Besides classrooms, BFS offers four science labs, two libraries with more than 20,000 volumes, two dance studios, a ceramics studio, two gymnasiums, several media centers, a 300-seat theater/meeting house, a woodshop, a cafeteria, and roof-top playground. These facilities are spread between the school's two academic buildings, one on Pearl Street and one two blocks away on Willoughby Street. The Willoughby Street building serves the high school while Pearl Street serves the entire community. The school also uses the Brooklyn Friends Meeting House on Schermerhorn Street for classes and worship. BFS is also the home of the Bridge Film Festival, an annual international student film festival for movies with Quaker themes. This is their mission statement, "BFS Mission Statement: Brooklyn Friends School provides a college preparatory program serving students from Preschool through Grade 12. It is committed to educating each student intellectually, aesthetically, physically, and spiritually in a culturally diverse community. Guided by the Quaker principles of truth, simplicity, and peaceful resolution of conflict, Brooklyn Friends School offers each student a challenging education that develops intellectual abilities and ethical and social values to support a productive life of leadership and service." For several years the school has been plagued by a serious drug problem. Marijuana and cocaine are commonly used on and around the school premises, and twelfth grader Jacob LeDoux died in 2005 of a heroin overdose off campus. Contrasted with the relative safety of the school, this remains a major problem practically unaddressed by the administration, and their complacency surely serves to keep the problem active. See Also: Education in New York City |
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