European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes april 1977 school trend Cardinale says competency centers for handicapped being considered gym Ink Spear staff writer Germany Smisl studies arc under Way aimed Al improving several priority areas in the overseas de Pendents according to or Anthony schools the studies involve such things at High school diploma competency the schools no retention policy and possibly establishing centers for handicapped Chil Cardinale said in an interview in he said the system is looking for a better Way to get textbooks and sup plies to some of the More Remote areas in the overseas school system and the answer May ix1 what he Calls drop which Are direct shipments from the omit companies to the he said parents who dont think their children Are being worked hard enough in the schools should go to the school and see if it is then work from ant he As director of the school fire hits army school in Leningrad user Upil a major fire broke out Friday in the ism Wingrad artillery school located across the Street from secret police Kab Al least 25 fire trucks from various Sta including four Hookah ladder rigs and one Cherry picker with a High pow ered were rushed to fight the which broke out after noon about 123 firemen fought the flames which were entered in the Interior of the two lock Long pc revolution nary building at the height of the six truckloads of militia i police were brought in to keep the crowds More than 100 police ringed the scene and told curious onlookers to a cup one officer kept Yelling into his bullhorn go on this is no perform soldiers perched on roof Ilio Long with two crossed cannons engraved atop its main houses the soviet army Leningrad Artil Lery school some soldiers could be seen perched on a part of the roof which was not affected by the the building is located across the Street hmm the Leningrad Branch of the ministry of which also houses the local Lica quarters of the Kab and the firemen contained the Blaze shortly after 2 p m hardly any damage could be seen on the buildings but firefight ers wearing oxygen masks fought intense smoke and managed to rip off a Section of the t in roof to get at the stubborn it was the second major fire in Lenin Grad in the last according to soviet a destroyed a Power station in the cites Harbor area several Days he would certainly listen to what the european pts recommends concern ing operation of the Cardinale said he Hai talked with school officials in on High school diploma competencies and that a study group will be organized this summer to establish he said the testing probably will Start in the 10th grades so that those Stu dents having trouble can be caught i dont want to get caught like they did in the where they passed a Law that every kid should be and then they found that on third to on half of the Stu dents  pass the he we arc looking at it and we Hope to gel some thing going on no retention of students who fail to Cardinale said his statement last fall thai teachers should use their professional judgment on the Issue caused some con Cern in the directorate at Karlsruhe among those involved with elementary de my feeling is this As an he said i dont want anyone in our overseas school system being passed without gain ing the knowledge that is for when a youngster finishes fourth what is it Hal we expect him to know and if he cant do what is expected of Why promote him Cardinale said he compromised with the elementary coordinators and established task groups made up of coordinators and principals from the three overseas school regions to make recommendations on promotion he said these recommendations arc being assessed and added to me the most important thing in our curriculum is the whole concept of read Ive said if you cant then what can you do on the problem of children who get to Junior High school and can barely Cardinale said that the schools Mast make parents understand Hal their children Mark woman woman police Constable Elizabeth Aims a revolver during target practice Al a Range in fingering she is one of 12 woman volunteers being trained to join the marksmen of the Essex forces Central firearms created to Cope with hazardous photo again asks user to free Hess London a the British govern ment Friday made another plea to the soviet Union to allow the release of nazi War criminal Rudolf Hess from berlins Spand Tiu prison has been imprisoned in the cites Western sector since october 1m6 Adolf hitlers former Deputy has been under continuous arrest since 1941 when i parachuted into Scotland on a bizarre self appointed Mission to make peace Wilh Britain during world War soviet ambassador Nikolai Junkov was summoned to the British foreign office for a 15minule meeting Wilh minister of state Frank a spokesman said Judd told Junkov of Britain both on a governmental and Public regarding Lite continued imprisonment of Hess the British official asked the soviet ambassador to convey to his government a most Earnest request to take a fresh look at the merits of this Case and to agree to Hesss release and return to his the spokesman France and the us recently made Sim Ilar pleas to the soviet this is the latest request in a series of British approaches to Russia involving the release of All previously have been Hess is the Only prisoner in the 600cell he was sentenced to life imprison ment at the Nurnberg War crimes trials after the but the three Western nations now contend there is no longer any Point in holding him the soviet which As the fourth wartime ally must concur in his contends Hess would be a focal Point for nazi feeling if he goes it also maintains he shares responsibility for the deaths of millions of soviet All four nations share responsibility for guarding Judd told Junkov British government is second to none in its abhor rence of nazi but it still believes Hess should be released Arent Reading in the Early grades and work with them on the including getting the parents and the school psychologist together on the he said the system wants children to have the Basic skills and that testing should be done regularly to evaluate Stu i would not let a youngster go to another Grade level if he was falling Reading or the basics of math or he i think its a great injustice to that child to move him Cardinale said the Lack of enough trained specialists to take care of Handi capped pupils in the system was of High concern to he said he has asked the three regional directors to come up with a plan Early in May on the feasibility of set Ting up learning centers for the what staffing they would need and where they would be As soon As i get the package from the three regional in going to put something he Cardinale said the idea of direct ship ment of books by drop shipments to schools appeared to be one Way of getting text books and supplies to All the Book companies and manufacturers have said they would mail the supplies anywhere they arc he they have told me they will ship As Many crates or As few crates of books As we he adding that it made More sense to him than shipping books to then moving them to the nah Bollenbach where additional handling charges have to be paid to gel them moved out again to the Cardinale said he hoped to expand the drop shipment it is working in the Atlantic and Pacific regions and theres no reason it wont work in he in really sorry that some people Are spending their own Money for books and supplies because they cant get he 1 dont think its i Admire those who do it because it shows they Are really interested in working with Young sters but its unfortunate thai it Cardinale said hed been assured that All of the Basic books required for next year have been he said no child in the system should be without the Basic books when school opens in the communications essential on pts influence concerning the operation of the Cardinale said communications Between the group and him Are if they the pts Are speaking As a body we will listen and we will take heed to what they soy and we can make he the pts passed a Resolution calling for a return to a More traditional approach to learning in High schools last year but car Dinale said he thought there is a place in the secondary schools for both the philos ill have to say that we have got to have sequential he ill certainly be annoyed if i know that we Are not teaching which i think is most and writing and listen ing 1 think weve got to get some of tire basics into our Cardinale said that parents who have doubts about How much work their Chil Dren Are getting in the classroom should visit the class and find out whats going h is an area where parents have to demand Quality if they think they Are not gelling he then he added that he had visited most of the schools in the system and was convinced that the vast majority of teachers were doing an out standing its the few who dont who Are the he cardinals spoke to More than educators in Frankfurt monday at the Idle hour he told the elementary Middle and High school teachers and learning resource specialists that High standards in the school were a priority he we cannot get behind what is happening in the we can be but we cannot afford to be