ABSTRACT
Teachers of disaffected teenagers know that success often lies in getting them to do something, to make, create, earn, repair or renew. In a youth village, the distinction is false, and young people see the process as a sliding scale rather than as a flight of steps. Even the pay differential between students and trainees can be partly removed, since Enterprise education can be organized to create a service, a profit or both. A bad Youth Training Scheme is held in even lower esteem by young people than bad education. Schools have never been encouraged to run their own schemes, nor have they seen it as part of their remit. Special needs educators, therefore, are ideally suited for the task of creating a unity rather than a polarity between education and training. Most larger Associations have Special Needs Project Officers who will help people to design a scheme.
