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The Brooklyn Latin School is a specialized high school in New York City, founded in 2006. The ideals governing Brooklyn Latin are borrowed largely from the Boston Latin School, and popular society's Ideals. John Elwell, the school's founder, and Jason Griffiths, administer and monitor the school. As of 2013, Jason Griffiths has left the school to lead a troubled high school in New York. The new headmaster is previous math teacher Gina Mauschke. Since Brooklyn Latin is a specialized high school, one must pass the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) in order to be admitted to the school. It is the second specialized high school in Brooklyn (along with Brooklyn Technical High School) and has the distinction of being the only specialized high school in which students adhere to a school uniform. The school color, purple, reflects the preference of Roman nobility, who wore robes dyed in that color and is also the school color of the Boston Latin School, another borrowed trait. The school spent its first six years at 325 Bushwick Avenue, in limited space. In 2013 it moved to 223 Graham Avenue, not too far from the previous school. The Brooklyn Latin School considers it a step up from the previous school, since there is more space including a much larger gym, which enhances the general feeling of a true high school. ==Course of study== Unlike nearly all other specialized high schools, Brooklyn Latin has a strong focus on the humanities and classics. All students are required to take four years of English, History, Latin and a modern foreign language. The Brooklyn Latin School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school and offers the IB Diploma and its mandatory classes. All classes regularly hold Socratic Seminars, in which students lead roundtable question-and-answer discussions, and all students take part in declamation (public speaking) exercises. In disciplines such as English and History, there is a focus on classical studies, and all students receive a grounding in literary and historical traditions before graduating. Latin instruction begins during the first year and continues throughout. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brooklyn Latin School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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