Bustrup Efterskole

Denmark

School for maladjusted teenagers staffed by Tvind volunteers

There is also a DRH college at Bustrup

      Ben's story
Volunteer teacher, Red House School and Bustrup Efterskole, 1993

"It didn't start very auspiciously.  After a 24-hour coach journey I found myself alone one evening in rhus bus station - they hadn't (as promised) come to meet me.....a number of things didn't seem right.  The headteacher - who was otherwise very friendly - warned me not to read the local newspapers....The doubts were creeping in by that stage, and from that it got worse."

    Leif Gunnar Lie's MA Thesis 1996
Journalism student, City University, London, 1995-6

"In Denmark, controversy has raged for almost 20 years. Since the mid-Seventies, after an initial wave of good publicity, Tvind has been very controversial. One girl, who was interviewed by the Information newspaper in 1979 about her stay in Bustrup Efterskole, said many things which defectors still say in the Nineties: "One learns to shut up at the right moments because, if you don't, it can get very unpleasant. You have to say what the school wants you to, otherwise you get mashed." 

       A correspondent writes (Dec 2001):    To whom it may concern.   When I first saw your website, I thought what a load of crap, but after quitting the school at Bustrup last week, and everything that has happened in between, I now believe your information presented.    I wish I had seen this site before joining Humana.  Nicky Klomp.