c+ Castle News Worn» 10 Do three-year-olds BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-52 10 sins iimes ction Sine ecspcs ore therch 29 for the month of April, belong in school? TORONTO (CP) — Should three-year-olds be in the backyard or the schoolyard? A provincial task force studying Ontario's education system recently urged Queen's Park to find a place for three-year-olds in the school sys.em. But some parents bristle at the thought of taking babies from the cradle to the class- room and child-development experts disapprove of start: ing the school curriculum any earlier. “I have some worries about it,” says Wendy Auger, an early childhood education specialist teaching at Tor. onto's York University. “It's just a gut reaction, but I have worries about institutional. izing kids earlier and earlier. I think you have to be so sure that the people who are going to plan the learning exper. fences for the children understand fully the nature of how those children learn.” A dozen three-year-olds can develop at a dozen dif ferent rates, Auger said. “That creates an enormous challenge for the teachers. I've seen situations where children are forced into pre- scriptive, narrow programs, and their days are chopped up and they don't have the opportunities to choose what they wanted to do. “Children don’t grow and learn that way. We have to learn that we must value these little people more than we do.” David Elkind, a U.S. child- development expert, says: “If they're talking about very young children facing rig- orous, structured program. ming, it's a very bad idea.” George Radwanski, who wrote the task force report doesn't see three-year‘olds studying Latin and math. But, along with early child- development experts, he says that as long as many children are in second-rate day care, society should in- vestigate using sehools that face falling enrolment. There, three-year-olds could learn skills, such as how to play with other chil dren, that will prepare them for Grade 1. In Canada, 58 per cent $1 mothers with children undég three are working. In his report, Radwanski referred to U.S. studies showing that children from poor families especially reap benefits from preschool pro- grams. For example, the Perry preschool project, which in. volved parents as well as teachers, showed that the children involved performed better in school and stayed in school longer. Radwanski recommended that Ontario families have access to similar programs through the school system as a “public right.” The program could help overcome the disadvantages children from poor families have in school, said Walter Sinclair, principal at a public school in Toronto. Some of these children start Grade 1 with limited vocabulary because no one has had the time to read to them and they haven't had the attention of an adult to encourage them to develop their thoughts, he said. These children often never catch up, getting put into basic-level programs and eventually dropping out. Soviets after bequests WINNIPEG (CP) — The Soviet Union, starved for cold, hard dollars, is almost too keen to help its citizens claim foreign inheritances and direct the money into its own coffers, lawyers say. “The Russians seem to be following the obituaries,” said lawyer Serge Radchuk of Winnipeg in a recent interview. “Then they supply the relatives. They have cer. tain lawyers who act for them in Canada. To my knowledge, the Russians operate this in 70 countries.” Lawyers familiar with es tate work suspect the Soviet government ends up with large part of the bequests and inheritances. The lawyers said bene ficiaries are encouraged to swap their inherited Can- Castlegar REVIEW: REC REATION BU SINESS; yNpUSTRY TOURISM 1988 adian or United States dol lars for special coupons in stead of Soviet rubles. The coupons can be ex changed for the inherited cash, Moscow receives for- eign currency without having to pay out rubles in return. MILLIONS SENT Robert , Price of Toronto, who works on behalf of the Soviets, estimates that $4 million to $5 million a year goes to Soviet citizens from dead Canadian relatives. About one quarter of money comes from Manitoba, local officials say. But Price and Andrew Bunn, a lawyer who does similar work in Winnipeg, said there is nothing wrong with their efforts to obtain bequests for Soviet bene- ficiaries. Order souvenir copies of the large, annual... a: News ARTS: Send to friends, relatives and business contacts The lawyers said after legal and banking fees are deducted, heirs get at least 80 per cent of the money. “The matters are sent to me by Soviet lawyers,” Price said. “They also come to our attention through the em. bassy or consulate general. Someone will call them to notify of someone's passing.” SEARCH WILLS Canadian lawyers search wills for Soviet beneficiaries and, if some are found, law yers in the Soviet Union get the heirs to sign over a power of attorney to a Canadian lawyer, say sources close to the process. Jayanti Raichura, Mani toba’s public trustee, said the volume of inheritance money flowing to the Soviet Union from M ba, on a per-cap- ita basis, is higher than any. where else in the world. 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