Sydvestfyns Efterskole, Denmark

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Sydvestfyns Efterskole is a continuation school located near the town of Glamsbjerg in Denmark [1].

Program structure


Like ordinary prisons, but unlike normal schools in Denmark they preserve the right to demand a drug test from the teenagers when they arrive at the facility [2]. Because the legal position of such a demand has not been investigated in Denmark, it remains uncertain whether a such investigation will reach the same result as in United Kingdom.[3] where the result was that such drug test will potentially be challenged as a violation of privacy under the Human Rights Act 1998 and Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

The first week of the stay is a intro week where they use the time to learn about the rules of the facility, security and have to participate in a kind of semi-wilderness therapy.

Daily schedule

Daily schedule
07.15 - 07.40 Breakfast
07.45 - 07.55 Cleaning and making beds
08.00 - 08.30 TV, newspapers and morning assembly
08.30 - 10.00 First and second lesson
10.00 - 10.35 Morning break
10.35 - 12.05 Third and forth lesson
12.10 - 13.00 Lunch and lunch break
13.00 - 14.30 Fifth and sixth lesson
14.30 - 14.45 Afternoon break
14.45 - 15.30 Seventh lesson
15.35 - 16.20 Eigth lesson
16.30 - 17.15 Chores
17.15 - 17.45 Dinner
18.00 - 19.00 Personal and quiet hour
19.00 - 21.00 Evening activities
21.00 - 21.30 Coffee break
22.00 - 22.30 Back to own dorms
22.30 Lights out

The teenagers can normally leave for home Saturday and return Sunday between 19.00 and 21.00, but the have to stay at the facility two weekends every year where the time are used on various activities among them promoting the facility to families who want to banish their child from home in the future.


The curriculum is regulated by the department of Education in Denmark. The levels are form 9th and 10th.

Beside the normal curriculum they claim to have connections to a lot of firms so they can offer work experience for 3 weeks. However statements made by the teenagers state that it is only a few firms and lines of businesses they can offers are very limited properly based on the fact that the facility are located in a area where the number of firms are few compared to Copenhagen or Aarhus.

The stay at the facility also include a 1 week work experience to a foreign country. In the previous years countries like Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, France and Italy have been used. During this trip they stay with a local host family, which has caused some of the teenagers to relocate due to the often well-known problems with host families abroad [4].

Living Conditions

The teenagers live on the campus in small houses with 4 rooms, a living room and two bathrooms in each house.

3-4 teenagers share a single room. There are both girls and boys in each house. Internet access are available in all rooms.


It remains unclear whether the facility allow to use the computers on community network like the local Myspace copy Arto or use them to mail privately with parents and their social network.

They are allowed to go on home visits beside two weekends where they have to stay at the facility.


Extra chores are given rather casual. They consist of extra cleaning in- and outside on the campus.

They also expel teenagers in a rather big number:




Number of
teenagers started


Number of
teenagers remaining


According to a thread on the message board on newspaper "B.T." the right to expel a teenager is delegated to every teacher [5]


Use of tobacco are allowed on certain places on the campus. Use of alcohol are not allowed on campus opposite the normal state among ethnic Danes [6] and the teenagers will be expelled if they try to live normally as the youth on the outside.

Drugs are forbidden.


  1. The facility on Google maps
  2. Rules, from the homepage of the facility Dk8.GIF
  3. Drug testing in the workplace:, Summary conclusions of the Independent Inquiry into Drug Testing at Work Us9.GIF
  4. Security check of host families, Studying Language Abroad, Us9.GIF
  5. Sydvestfyns efterskole, a thread on the message board of the newspaper "B.T." Dk8.GIF
  6. Alcohol culture in Denmark Us9.GIF

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