European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 20, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 Cliff Mir Tab. Cut foreign Aid Gina grooms. Is from every paycheck who inc Scott. Would trim defense Brian Wolten. Need investments business Wise teens offer ideas on . Debt Bidav Walczak education writer Frankfurt he would slash foreign Aid. She would Raicic tasks and Cut de sense. What s the uni cd slates to do a group of business savvy teens offered plenty of  but no single Solu Tion la the Federal debt ideas like those of future business leaders of America european chapter president Clit mar tin. I d Cut fatten Aid inc Mannheim High school senior said. We dish out a lot of Money to other countries and we get a Trade deficit. It s an endless  but Martin who plans to major in business admin isl ration next fall at the University of Arizona also said higher taxes arc inevitable. It s not a popular answer but it s  chapter vice president Gina grooms agreed. I have a plan that every person would pay ii from every paycheck the Frankfurt High school Junior said. The defense budget also would be trimmed under her proposal. We make top Many weapons As it  grooms said we already have enough to How up the world. We should t spend so much time worrying about what military secrets the soviets can steal from u4 and us from  the solutions in the deficit were As varied As the chapter s membership. More than 200 students from 21 department of defense dependents schools in Germany met Friday and saturday for the future business Lead ers meeting. Although the Federal budget was not on the Agenda the chapter s state offi cers were eager to provide solutions to the problem that has formed the Crux of the 1988 presidential primaries. Patch High school senior Brian Wal ters look a Supply Side approach o the Federal debt which experts have Esti mated to exceed $2 trillion i d Cut spending he said. Federal Lues arc High enough right now the wealthy worked their Way up. To Lake away their capital would kill off investments and we need invest  Walters classmate Whitney Scoll said it s the defense budget that needs rimming. What Reagan is doing with the de sense budget does t Moke any sense to me she said. I m against the defense tiring altogether against nuclear  Scott the chapter Secretary said Wel fare spending should be scrutinized. Sometimes i think we re not spend ing enough on social programs. I think about he people on the streets. But it hard to Tell when people gel welfare whether they re capable of gelling a Job or  the chapter s parliamentarian Nic Ole Burnham called for higher lairs and an end to Reagan s strategic de sense initiative. "1 would definitely raise taxes. We need to get More  and Star wars ski is going la be a waste the Mannheim High school senior said. The soviets could counter it in a few years  Nicole Burn Tun wants higher lanes Johnny can be taught to read too soon could cause problems later educator says  about 750 educators child care pro equally immature. They slow each Little about inc Day s meaning 0by Deedee Arrington cok suit writer Mannheim West Germany teaching children skills such As Reading Al Loo Early an age May Rob them of the inclination to use those abilities later in life an Early childhood educator told a Mannheim audience saturday. Just because children can do some in Injo it does t mean they should Lilian Kali said in a keynote address to the association of Young children Europe s Spring conference when we introduce children to formal academic work too soon and too hard they least skills at the expense of the disposition to use  Kau a regular columnist for parents Magazine is on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The English born Early childhood Educa Tion expert also is director of the Educa Tion research information Center gear ing mouse on elementary and Early childhood education. About 7 so viders administrators and parents at tended lit non profit organization s con Ference which ends sunday. Formal academic work. Kali said could include Workbook assignments and cover such subjects As phonics. The Edu Cator said she considered children 6 and under too Young to be tackling thai Type of work. During her presentation. Itnatz also said she favored mixing age groups and abilities in classrooms preferably group ing students together in a 2-year age Range. Such a in farces teachers to re Sist the urge to teach everyone the same thing in the same Way she said. Katz was critical of programs such Ai transitional first grades which Are de signed to identify slow learners or Chil Dren considered by school educators to be too immature to Progress from kindergarten to a traditional tint Grade. This is a Type of segregation Kali said. You put them and together to be Equall other  occasionally she added class division intended to Weed out slow earners or immature children can result in racial segregation. Citing current educational research the educator also said few children Bene fit by being kept Back a Trade in school. There arc very few children for whom repeating a year makes any differ ence Kali said. Instead Lite child May later suffer social stigma ligation if retained a year. Another education tradition receiving criticism from Kalz saturday was what she referred to As the Calendar  instead of fully understanding the Days and dates of the week Katz said Chil Dren Are prompted by teachers to give Correct responses. As an example she mentioned a visit thursday id a department of defense dependent schools classroom she did not identify in which students knew it was St. Patrick s Day but comprehended Little t the. One youngster Kalz said described Lepre Chauns As Little Green things that disappear another with a teacher s encouragement identified St. Patrick As Ireland s apron instead of Patron Saint. This is not leaching. This is coaxing he child into agreeing with  Katz said. The cumulative effect when we cause children to behave As though they understand something when in fact they Don to is to undermine their Confidence in their own intellect. That it the oppo site of  in a Brief interview Naer the presenta Tion Kali said fault for curriculum prob lems the Calendar ritual and such Art projects As tracing leaves on construction paper. Tor instance could not necessarily be traced Back Only to teacher or administrators. It s partly  Katz said. The parents it pet it Loo. You can hardly blame a single group la order to change it you have to work on All