European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. October 15, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Dodds planning new drug Survey Pentagon concerned Over sampling technique in schools by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington Pentagon officials plan to hire an outside Agency to a coca sure drug use among department of de sense dependents schools students. A Survey to be taken this school year would help show schools How to per Suade children to say no to drugs. Barbara Pope Deputy assistant Secre tary of defense for education and other family matters said the Survey would replace one Dodds took in february that has been labelled an internal work ing document after complaints that its sampling technique left it suspect. Assessing the drug problem is the first step schools should take in trying to design effective courses to fight drug abuse Accord ing to education Secretary William Ben Nett s Booklet schools without  Bennett recommends that schools find out How serious the drug problems. Conduct Anonymous surveys and consult with parents and police. Get school staff to Point out where drugs Are sold. Keep records on drug use so efforts to combat drugs can be evaluated. Tell the Community in non technical language How serious the drug prob Lem in the schools is. State plainly what the school or la considers an illegal substance what the boundaries of the school arc what the types of violations Are Possession use and Sale and what the penalties arc. Enforcement should correspond to the severity of the problem Bennett writes. He says school officials can require student Hall passes supervise school grounds and get police help in Monitor ing the areas around schools. In the Case of a severe problem officials can use Security personnel to Monitor school areas where drugs have been sold Issue mandatory school identification badges for students and staff ask police to help Stop drug dealing and where local Law per mits periodically search student lockers. Schools without drugs include fact sheets on the Legal issues involved in search and seizure and suspension an expulsion from school. Chapman Cox assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel told a news conference sept. 16that the education and defense depart ments would team to produce a Mode education program aimed at producing drug free schools. William Lennox the education department s Point Man in the Effort says the concept is still in the earliest plan Ning stage. He said the education department assent the defense department copies of schools without drugs and he said he believed a Model program might incorporate Many of the ideas in the Booklet. It could be something along those lines taken to the lowest level the families the schools the communities he said. The military is Well equipped for that. Its communities especially overseas Are very supportive of the schools. Pope said she expected Dodds Mohave a functioning Model program this  officials said they have no funds for the project. They were watching the amended $1.8 billion anti drug Bill that passed the House wednesday and i being returned to the Senate. If Dodds assessment of its anti drug program shows that Money is needed to address specific problems help May Beon the Way. A spokesman for sen. Frank Murkowski a Alaska whose Amend ment required the report said that if the Dodds report shows convincingly that Money is needed the senator is going to go for  Ritter a Murkowski press aide said the senator is concerned partly be cause of severe drug problems in Alaska. Ritter said one Survey showed that co Caine experimentation in Alaska High schools goes on at a rate three times that of the National average. More training for educators called critical need9 Washington is tests of outpatient drug treatment for teens radio and to spots aimed at families Community meetings to plan strategies and Stu dents helping students could improve drug education in department of defense dependents schools. That s the thinking of Dodds staff members that will be sent to Capitol Hill soon said Frank Gallivan Dodds coordinator of health and physical Educa Tion. A report on Ding education in the schools must Goto the House and Senate armed services committees by dec. I to meet a requirement of the Senate s 1987defense authorization Bill. A critical need identified by the staff is for More train ing for those who have to teach about drugs Gallivan said. With the constant updating of information in this Are and the current emphasis on this massive problem Educa tors need training to provide meaningful  another critical need is Money. President Reagan has proposed a $100 million Effort to fight drugs next year. But Dodds anti drug Effort suffered along with All other programs last Spring when Federal Defi Cit reduction legislation forced the school system to find $27 million Worth of savings in the last two months of the school year. Gallivan said the regions reviewed drug education materials last year and will be ready to buy if Money becomes available. Drug education in Dodds seeks to involve students teachers parents and military personnel because it will take a Community Effort to solve the problem Gallivan said. He said that Dodds also regards alcohol and Tobac co As drugs that cause problems. He said that teachers try to avoid isolating or sensational izing drug topics by Dis cussing them at logical Points in the curriculum. In the lowest grades children Are taught that medi Cines Are helpful Only when properly prescribed and used that colourful pills Are not Candy and that cleans ers floor polish insecticides and other common household items can be harmful if swallowed. From grades four to six children Are taught that tobacco and alcohol have unhealthy effects. Discussion of other drugs follows when it is started by students but it always goes on in the context of Why people us drugs and what alternatives exist. In Junior High and High school drug education is new study to be done at school where 5 kids contracted cancer Vancouver Wash. A a Geiger counter will be used at an elementary school where five children have contracted cancer As officials on monday tried to dispel fears that the school was to , the latest cancer victim returned to fifth Grade classes at Crestline elementary. It s been a Long awaited Day said Sandy Wieshof her i to year old daughter Stacey s return to the school monday in Rural Clark county. Stacey classmates had Given her a lot of encouragement for her return her Mother  s Bone cancer was discovered in mid july s  in Matt Tran if an/4 Hir Cpl. 11, a no uric was re Mucu ii uni a stand chemotherapy was resumed a week ago. The girl s cancer has prompted school and health officials to conduct a second environmental study at the school which has 514 students. Wiese and others in the Community said they strongly supported the  had just said it was coincidence and brushed it off that would have upset me she said. Health and school officials cautioned that there was no evidence to link the cancer cases with the the first study was conducted in 1983, after fou students were found to have contracted cancer. No link Between the school and the cancer was found. We want to research and Rule out any Environ mental reasons for cancer said Don Smith an assistant superintendent of the Evergreen school District. School and local health officials decided Friday to conduct the second study. Smith said Steps in the new study include a re View and update of the 1983 study checking the school and playground with a Geiger counter for radioactivity looking for radon Gas and trying to determine whether anything unusual in the school neighbourhood could be the cause. Statistically Smith said one child in 2,200 will contract one or another form of cancer. Research has found clustering of cases is not uncommon he said the children who contracted cancer in 1982 and1983 Are All still alive Smith said. Two Are in higher grades in the Evergreen District one is at school near Olympia and the fourth is living in new York he said. Those cases concerned two different kinds of leu Kemia Lymphoma and a brain tumor. None of the cancers in the five cases has a specific known cause Smith said. The health District also plans to set up a surveil Lance system to examine any patterns of childhood cancer throughput the area said or. William mor ton an epidemiologist with Oregon health sciences University also involved in the study. Tailored As much As possible to student needs and interests Gallivan said. Some students May need a review of drug effects others May be concerned with the social psychological Oregal issues others May want information on alternatives to drug use reasons Why some persons turn to drug use or the Community resources available to  for students from kindergarten through High school Dodds has health texts that include units on drugs Gallivan said. There Are two drug education curriculum guides for teachers and a scope and sequence Chart to help them key classroom instruction to the school system s goals for drug education. Schools also have supplemental texts and films. In 1985, five Day drug and family violence Educa Tion workshops funded and organized by the air Force were held in four of Dodds five regions Gal Livan said. They involved 160 Dodds principals Counselor nurses and teachers. Each regional office has a health educator to oversee drug education and they Are expected to draw on the expertise of military family advocacy staffs medical personnel and Law enforcement agencies. Science teacher fired for pushing his religious views Uniontown a. Up a school Board fired High school science teacher accused of shunning his classroom duties in favor of lecturing on religion including beliefs that the Crew of the challenger shuttle is alive on an  Laurel Highlands school Board voted 6-2, with one abstention to dismiss George f. Rhodes jr., a 23-year Veteran of the District for allegedly violating state education Laws by teaching his personal religious beliefs in the classroom. During the disciplinary hearings students testified that Rhodes had equated president Reagan and astronaut Judith Resnick with the Devil had said that the space shuttle challenger s Crew is alive on a Remote Island and had forced a student to Pray with him and then asked her to kiss his foot after she laughed in class. Rhodes called the Board s proceedings a  he said he will Appeal the  dismissal came after the Board heard three nights of testimony from both sides during a two week period beginning in late  was suspended aug. 29, four Days into the fall term after parents complained about the Contento his classroom lectures said superintendent William Gregg. The teacher also was suspended in 1984 to similar reasons. School Board member Harry Fike said he disapproved of the decision to fire Rhodes. Instead he voted continuing the teacher s suspension until t More thorough investigation could be made. "