Brooklyn Castle
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary concerning I.S. 318 -- an in-state faculty where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level -- which also happens to have the best, most rewarding junior senior high school baseball team at the country. (In case Albert Einstein, that was rated 1-800, would be to join the team, he would only rank fifth best.) Chess has altered the school out of one mentioned in 2003 as a"school in need of improvement" to one of nyc's most useful. But a series of public school budget cuts that are recession-driven threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
Released: 2012-10-19
Genre:
Documentary