European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 19, 1966 the stars and stripes fag 9 Darmstadt provides jobs in Community Darmstadt Germany _ students suspended from school Aren t getting a free Day off anymore. Community officials Are taking chaise of youngsters discharged for misbehaving. A try to provide an employment Opportunity to keep these Young people Busy occupied and super Vised said command sgt maj. Edgar h. Slalz oath Darmstadt military Community. Plata oversees a program that gives suspended Stu dents the Chance to so something for their Community. Most suspensions Are for use of bad language Dis respect and unacceptable behaviour he said. The girls Are suspended mostly for righting. Today s Young ladies Are just As Quick to fight As boys. They be crossed All the gender  the idea of putting students to work took shape about a year ago when concerned parents and teachers appealed to Community officials for help in handling suspensions Platz said. Today most parents work. If a child is suspended he either stays Home and watches to or hangs out wit Little  any suspended student living in the Darmstadt Community must report to the sergeant major s office at 8 . On their suspended Day. Ill have the youngster come up and i talk with work traded for suspensions them for three reasons Plau said. Pint to deter mine the student s Altitude second to Lei them know that their action can reflect upon the future of their Parent who is the sponsor and finally to reinforce some things the Parent May ask me to reinforce. Sometimes if they the students hear it from editor s note suspension potty varies fro school school in the Dodds Germany Region de pending on the judgment of the Pri Apih who have the no Diorite to set the Rales. John owls the Region s Clear the service director said principals Are Enco orfed to find positive pro-grams11 regarding suspensions Bat such program Art bed add cried by principals and tool . The following it Orin Are examples of How one school offers a alternative to missing Clui and one Connulty per Vida an alternative to slaying Home alone or getting in further trouble. _ someone else they take it a Little More  the program also has helped identify problems school officials arc unaware of he said. I had a High school student come in pretty hostile. After we talked i realized he wanted some attention from Home. I talked with the parents to let them know they needed to spend More time at  platz1 said student Aren t forced to work but me offered an Opportunity to expend Energy doing Man Ual labor while getting a first hand look at the Mili tary. We gel a student Aboul once a week More boy than girls he said. Students work alongside soldiers raking leaves culling grass picking up trash around the buildings. Sweeping the parking Tot. Cleaning the Chapel delivering flyers or helping assemble weekly bulletins. Those Wilh vocational training Are assigned in the afternoon to areas where their Job skills can be used like the Art and crafts Center or the  eel Good work out of them said Sec. Leon Ard a. Williams operations no. They Don t know what we re going to do to them so they re a Little scared. These kids Aren t bad. Everybody gels int trouble. We All did. The program is unique it works on their minds. In Tets them know they did t getaway with what they  at Darmstadt Junior High school where inc sus pension rate runs around 4.1 percent the program receives High Marks from assistant principal Scott Hendrick. If we could judge on repeat offenders we be Only had two. We try nol to push this As a punishment but As a Way to contribute to inc Community. A Way tomake up for something they be done that was t Good for the  new programs cutting Misbehaviour at school by Mike me Ronemus Luenburg Bureau Schweinfurt Germany Junior High school students Here Aren t sus Pended for serious Misbehaviour they get sapped. That s worse than getting sus Pended one student said from personal experience with the suspension alternative program under the program in effect since the beginning of the school year students Trade an hour of work for each hour they normally would be suspended. About 25 students have been referred to vice principal . Stafford who runs sap. None have been repeal offenders. One Lime is enough a ninth grader said. Principal Joan Klose s philosophy is that we be got to keep students in school and 1 agree with that Stafford said. We be got to control behaviour and 1 agree with  the Best Way to meet both those goals is through an in House suspension pro , Stafford said. He ran a Pilot in Jouse suspension program in a Fulton county ga., school before coming to Germany la was w successful he said the county established an in House sus pension school. Stafford started sap to eel the Schweinfurt students attention. He ran a similar program last year while he was Ansbach h High school vice principal. We give their parents the option of saying yes i want my child to come int 6 o clock in the morning and work for you during All his or her free Lime and after school " Only one of the 25 students faring sus pension did not Lake pan in the program and i found out later it was due to a transportation problem Stafford said. Students Are nol suspended fro classes if they work off their Lime with Stafford they give me the exact amount of time they would have missed from school six hours for six hours he said. Students May find themselves sweep raking or washing windows. One ninth grader s Early morning Job of Rak ing leaves was hard especially when the ground s  he did t want to do it again but said he d rather Rake leaves than slay Home if suspended .11 an eighth grader said he would rather do the work than be in class but he did t like to get up Early so he was slaying out of trouble. Teachers had told Stafford one Bay was beyond help but he has not been referred to the vice principal for discipline for the past seven weeks. In fact Stafford said he has not had any student referred to him for suspension in the past five weeks counselling plays an important role in Schweinfurt s discipline efforts Stafford said. He counsels a first Lime referral Counselor handles the student referred a second time and specialists Are called in if a student gets in trouble a third time. An eighth Grade troublemaker who admits he had an attitude problem Isnow a safety patrolman. It was his Pat on the Back for Good behaviour. Positive approach technique is the other half of the behaviour program Schweinfurt Junior High implemented this year. The school plans to Reward Well be have students Wilh a free movie at the Ledward Barracks theater live band Jam sessions trips to a nearby German indoor swimming Pool or whatever can be arranged at the end of each Quarter Stafford said. All we ask of the children is that they treat each other like ladies and gentlemen and treat our teachers with re Spect. And they be done that 99 per cent of  Junior High school students have been Given 140 Points. Points Are taken away by Stafford or teachers for infractions of rules. The students Are so aware of the pro Gram that they re talking about in. And i they re bulking about it you know it s on their minds,1 Stafford said. I think after the firs time we gel out of Here at 12 o clock or i o clock and go see a movie and they come Back and talk this thing up it la help us in Iho future parents fear program turning kids into spies pardeev1lle, wis. A angry parents said they fear an elementary school program that asks students about their families1 sex lives and drug users turning their children into spies. Officials at the Par Deevie elementary school have balled the voluntary student assistance pro Gram pending further  program includes a Survey asking first through Subuh Graden 26 question Aboul venereal usage or whether a single Parent is co Hab taling witha Kotlier person Douglas Hammer an attorney whose 1 1-Yeamjld son attends the school said  infused about it said Rammer whose son declined to participate in the program. The thoughts St anyone would pry into parents lives through their Small children is  has complained to the american civil Liber Acle executive director Eunice the Organ Lauon would look Vocase to new re Headquarters for advice about possible Legal action. There s no doubt that some of the questions in Wude on family privacy and might very Well be in Jota ten of Federal a p""1 �tlldel11 a Parent privacy she said. School officials said the program was designed Lohela children who have drug or alcohol problems or who May have a Parent or Friend Wilh such prob lems. But Kammer said one of the screening question reads has someone who has been living with you moved out or does t come Home very often trying to find out who s sleeping with a single Parent in the House has nothing to do Wilh alcohol or drug abuse Kammer said principal Terry Pease said the program was not a Effort to spy on parents and labelled the notion fool  knows we Don t want to gel Inlo people s living rooms Pease said adding he hoped the pro Gram would continue. But superintendent Gerald Skaar suspended the program until it can be discussed at a Jan. 5 school Board  state department of Public instruction said it Alto received a copy of Rammer s complaint and Willco Tuider ibis week whether to investigate the pro  program has been offered to High school Stu dents for two Yean and was introduced Al the elementary school level Lail Spring. When asked about the cd and lifestyle questions in the screening. Pease replied i suppose some of those questions do sound awfully out of Content Wilh the purpose of the program. But there Are Man different things closely associated with alcohol and  said the program is explained to the Chil Dren. They then can make appointments Wilh a Volunteer teacher or Community member who uses the answers to screen the children and recommend placement in one of three support groups. Kids Many times feel they Are at fault for motor dad s hostilities and talking to other kids Aboul in helps Pease  said children Are sworn to secrecy Aboul their membership in the  Meyers whose 11-year-old son look part in the screening list week said the program under mines her authority As Parent and questions Chil Dren about topic they cannot understand. I. Questioned my son and be told me he didst Haw to Tell me anything about in because the school told bin an my menu a peace said Abom 60 children la the second third and fifth Gnidet have undergone the screening developed through information provided by the mad Ison based prevention and intervention Center for alcohol and other drug abuse