EDITOR'S notebook 2-04

This is achieved through positive reinforcement (there are no locks or bars), mentoring and learning pro-social skills and a good work ethic. For example, students are taught to wave and acknowledge all strangers on campus, as well as to look people directly in the eye when talking to them; no exceptions. It also means keeping them busy with a full schedule of athletics and academic studies, including 14 different vocational training programs such as automotive mechanics and body work, photography, journalism, art and design, making eyeglasses in the state-of-the-art optics lab and, yes, printing. Students can even elect to train as greens keepers for Glen Mills' nationally recognized, 18-hole public golf course or to work for the school's radio station or newspaper.