European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 12, 1968 the stars and stripes Dodds Roundup Page 9 education students will take part in mock election nov. 8 Wiesbaden West Germany students a department of defense dependents schools will have the Opportunity to Vole for George Bush or Michael Dukakis come nov. 8, the same Day As he National election in a mock election sponsored in part by time Magazine. The students including some Kindergan Nurs will Vole at hair local schools where Voles will be tallied and sent to regional offices. The regional allies will be sent to Dodds Headquarters in Washington which will relay the information to a Central office in the United slates. Dodds votes will be combined with those from students in the 50 slates. The mock election is designed to increase Stu Dent awareness of the electoral process. Schools May include other political races Orissa is on the ballot. Prizes will be awarded to those schools with the highest percentage of their student body participating. Puppet show to be staged on handicapped children Wiesbaden. West Germany forty elementary leaders will present a special puppet show to elementary schools in Germany to Leach youngsters about handicapped children. The teachers will use puppets As part of the kids on the Block a specialized program that uses targe puppets to teach youngsters about the lives of handicapped children. Germany re Gin officials purchased six sets of the puppets that Aie about the size of Kinder Garten children. Teams of four teachers will pre sent a show using the puppets after which Chil Dren will be encouraged to ask the puppet questions about How they Deal with their Handi Caps. Officials plan to begin presentations in schools by november with each elementary school in Germany targeted for one performance before the school year ends. October workshops set for vocational instructors Wiesbaden West Germany Germany Region officials have scheduled three workshop sin october for vocational education teachers. Electronics instructors Are invited to a three Day workshop beginning oct. 5 at kaisers Lauvern High school. Robotics and lab Volt equipment win be discussed. X to Day workshop beginning oct. 2 at Thea Afes instructional Center in Munich is scheduled for automotive instructors. Development sin repair techniques used by major . Auto makers Wilt be discussed. Beginning oct. 19, the Region will Host Athree Day seminar Tor cosmetology teachers at Frankfurt High school. The seminar will focus on instruction techniques and student motivation. Call Mark Carstons at German civilian06121-88299 for More information. Geography olympiad registration ends oct. 5 Wiesbaden. Writ Germany Germany Region officials arc looking 10 expand participation in the National geography olympiad. Schools have until oct. 5 to Register for the olympiad which requires students to answer a series of multiple Choice questions. Students i elementary through High school arc eligible to compete. The olympiad is sponsored by the National Council for geographic education which re quires a $30 entry fee per school. Top performers last year among Dodd schools were seventh graders at Tilburg Middick school eighth and ninth graders Al Tamsic Unjunior High school and ninth graders at Kaiserslautern Junior High school. Call George Gran Ham at German civilians 121-88245 for More information. Usa eur costume prices drop curtain on musicals Bidav Walczak education writer kaisers attorn West Germany student Sand their parents probably won t hear the sound of music in overseas High schools in the future. And they probably can forget pippin Carousel and Camelot too. Thai s the conclusion of longtime department of defense dependent schools music educators after decision by Usa eur to begin charging for costumes that once were provided free to schools. I m planning to retire from doing musicals 1 said 20-year Dodds Veteran Sam Alexander of Kaiser Slatlem High school i can t afford to rent the  Alexander who leaches music has directed a num Ber of school musicals including pippin Annie and Dames at sea but no longer. A lot of the shows Litte to do would be Good training tools for the kids he said. But they would need extravagant costuming that we just can l  schools such As waiters Lautem High in the Pas turned to Usa eur s recreational services support Center for help in outfitting musical casts. The Center located in a Schaffenburg has thousands of costumes on hand that were provided free to Community Thea ters and on occasion to Dodds schools. But thing changed sept. I when he Center was told to become self supporting. The whole Mission has changed said la. Col. Ste phen Page who directs the Center. We re charging everybody for  the Center recently issued a Price list for musical costuming Usa eur officials Are asking $2,600 for hello Dolly $2,900 for Camelot and $3,000 for the King and  that sounds like an awful lot of Money to  said Bob Benson music coordinator for Germany Region schools. Musicals Are difficult to do anyway. You be Gotlop make sets find props and pay Royalty fees. Music teacher Hal Sheeler who has directed such shows As the Panama game Oklahoma and the sound of music at Ramstein High school said the Price list would make it extremely diff cull to do musicals,1 Scheler in his 21 is year As a Dodds teacher said he Choice of this school year s production was a direct result of the costume Price increase. One of the reason we re doing l in Abner is Wedon t have a lot of costume requirements he said. It s not like doing Carousel " Diana Fewcell chief of Usa eur marketing said the costume Center would stick by its Price list. I Don t think we had a lot of choices she  have a Mission and that s to be  Fawcett said she realized that the Center comes of looking like the bad Guy but she predicted that once the Public becomes educated about the operation opinions will change the service was never really free she said. It was simply funded differently. Now it s up to corny univ commanders to decide where they want to spend their  Dodds has no set budget for musicals and each school decides How much Money it will devote to drama productions. But even the biggest of them Suchias Kaiser Slatlem comes nowhere close to raising enough Money to pay for costuming under the usar eur Price list. We could maybe git $2,000," said  take away expenses and you re talking about 11,500."tickets for student musical productions typically run about 12. Profits from the productions arc a Lowerback into the schools in the form of Small scholarships Sheet music and musical equipment. Page said the Center never supported Dodds i general although it did provide costumes to a few schools when the Center had the time and personnel to provide the service. Germany Region director Joseph Blackstead sent Aletter to Usa eur officials in the Spring asking their help in making the Center s costumes available to schools. His request was rejected. Benson said he recently discussed with Blackstead the possibility of using Region funds to support school musicals on a reimbursable basis. But Benson said that after hearing of the Center s Price list Blackstead said the Region would not be Able to help. Fawcett said Center officials Are open to discussing the Price list but she predicted that some communities might have seen their last theater productions. It s not going to be a fun or easy transition she said. I think some of these theater programs will fall by the  private schools Are Superior some education experts say new York not the Board of education inner York City was understandably reluctant to say How Many people work at its Brooklyn , it counted them and announced the total 6,447, or one for every 141 students. Not Long ago the school office of the roman Catho Lic archdiocese of new York was asked How Many people worked in its Central administration. We Don publish that information was the reply but Wail a minute. I la count  the total came to 27or one for every 4,200 students. There Are Many fundamental differences Between publican parochial schools and some such As the need to account for Public Money and a greater responsibility to offer special educational services require More staff  do these differences justify having 28 times As Many Central administrators per child As political and educational leaders struggle Loim prove Public education a growing number of voices Are suggesting that some answers lie in How private and parochial schools compete successfully with Public schools even while charging parents hundreds or thou Sands of dollars a year. One of those voices has been provided by Jame Coleman a University of Chicago sociologist. Cole Man has contended that private and parochial schools Are academically Superior. Public school officiate have rejected his Contention asserting that differences i student perform juice come from the fact that Nan pub Lic schools can virtually hand pick their students an their faculty. Public schools must take All Comers and Deal with unions on hiring and firing. The debate recently took a different turn when John Chubb a senior fellow at the Brookings institution re Analysed some of Coleman s  concluded that the advantages of successful schools Over unsuccessful ones Lay in their Organiza Tion and operation. And one of the most important differences in he Good schools was that the principals had fewer people telling them How to run things. Chubb found the belter managerial style turned up More frequently in the private schools. The differences exist in the new York  Only is professional and nine secretarial staff people for 322 schools and nearly 114,000 students management is inevitably decentralized. We Sec our Job As helping the faculty of each school to do what is Best for their particular students said brother James Kearney superintendent of the archdiocese schools. Public schools have adopted some ideas that were proven to work in private and parochial schools. For instance Many Public school have been looking for ways to give teachers More influence in shaping  Public schools May have trouble emulating other positive features because of accountability. Al schools Are responsible to some constituency and it is natural to place decision making authority with those who Deal directly with these people for private schools the primary constituency is the parents who pay the tuition. Since parents talk mainly to teachers private schools lend to Grant teachers Good Deal of discretion. But for Public schools the primary constituencies end to be school boards teachers unions and other organized groups. That is Why authority is More centralized farther away from students and parents