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Dear Lorraine My attention has been drawn to your pages. We may be of interest to you. Worldsend is a corrective school for young people with behavioral problems.The fees are high but we get results. We only take students of sixteen and over. We model ourselves on an English public school of the twenties. We have two sites, one for boys and one for girls. We place great stress on the sense of discipline established by a comprehensive uniform and associated regulations. Instead of anything complicated we simply require our students, whatever their activity, to wear a traditional gaberdine mackintosh, double-breasted, in black, worn to ankle-length. Both hood and collar are worn up. Black scarves are worn over the lower half of the face. Each raincoat is of course clearly marked with the names of both school and student. It is warm for the students of course - very warm, and the perspiration runs - but the conditions are the same for all. Parents are very supportive. They feel that the uniform gives a sense of equality, undermines barriers between students of different backgrounds and brings discipline where the disorder of adolescence can so easily make mischief. Elsbeth Smith (Mrs)
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