Children taking responsibility

Nicholas Saunders

In Denmark, any group of parents can get a standard sum of money per pupil from the state for organising their own school and employing their own teachers. At one such school, the Albertslunds Lilleskole in the suburbs of Copenhagen, the older children do the school cleaning. The money saved is used to send the children on working holidays. Each classroom also has a kitchen, and the children buy food, prepare and cook it, and wash up. The children may grumble, but parents argue that the arrangement provides a useful discipline and training for them.

'The older children do the school cleaning. The money saved is used to send the children on working holidays'

Nicholas Saunders, top floor, 14 Neal's Yard, London, WC2H 9DP (tel 071 836 9404; fax 071 379 0135).

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