European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes May Awag meets with schools director topics include teachers competency by Diana Valdez staff writer Germany curriculum Stan hiring and firing of teachers and getting supplies headed the concerns of members of american women during a question answer session with the Dodd Germany director the hot issues that we expected to answer this week turned out to be of lesser said Noel Dodds Germany Public affairs he said he had expected bus monitors and the school lunch pro Gram to be popular one of the first questions to Joseph Dodd Germany dealt with the perception that poor teachers or administrators Are either kicked upstairs promoted or the audience asked How parents can get involved with the removal or suggest the removal of a poor teacher or i dont know of any Case where someone was promoted because they we rent doing Well in their previous if you know id be interested in knowing who Blackstead teachers have been but not because they were poor he said personal such As usually account for parents who want to complain about a teacher should go to the he if you dont get a satisfactory then you can Send it to asked if Dodds will Ever have competency testing for Blackstead i dont believe after repeated questions about competency tests and evaluations and Blackstead told the audience to go to their advisory com you do go to your advisory dont you he one participant replied that going to a Sac school advisory committee is very difficult if theres a Princi pal present who takes control of the meeting and re moves items from the in such Blackstead the Community should get another Sac president who will better control the dont blame the yelled out another Par what teacher in his right mind is going to argue with the principal who evaluating him if you have three parents and three How Are you going to have a majority if the teachers Are influenced by the principal sitting there Blackstead agreed and said he disagreed with the composition of the advisory we Are trying to get it but it is Public Law that decides the composition of another Issue was the hiring of substitute Many communities protested that civilian personnel offices require Only a High school diploma to get a theres a misinterpretation he anyone who Doest meet the education standards must get a waiver from he he added that if there Are any violations of that its news to asked about the procedure for hiring military spouses Over stateside Blackstead if someone is Al ready Here and fully qualified for an the Princi pal is required to hire that person before we submit a requisition for a stateside he to a question about Blackstead said that the system is improving for getting needed items so unless the ship sinks or something like we should be All right next he he added that As Long As there Are women clubs will be asked for Money to support some he used computers As an example because the school system is limited in the amount of computer equipment it can we have no authority to increase that no matter How much Money we would have available to buy that he can we Tell schools what we want our Money to go for asked one Blackstead said that beginning next year any Money donated to the school must be earmarked by the Blackstead was asked How much Money was being requested for More construction in he said million had been approved for this fiscal the school system has asked for million in fiscal 1986 million in fiscal he i was shocked at the condition of the school facilities in some cases they Are absolutely deplore we estimate that almost half of our students Are using facilities that would considered unacceptable in the not just we have spent More in six years on facilities in Ger Many than was spent in the previous 30 he military children thrive in our lifestyle because of doctor says temperatures May 15 by Diana Valdez staff writer Germany military parents  feel guilty or for the lifestyle their children must a military paediatrician said parents who Are afraid that the stress of military the constant adjust ing and making new will Hurt their children in the Long run can rest said Thomas Deputy command surgeon for there Are no studies that indicate that the emotional problems of the children in military families Are any higher than any other segment of our Schwark told about 250 members of the american women our children thrive in our they Are known for their adaptability to new their cultural and Best of almost a compete absence of Schwark said that during his 15year he has seen an undercurrent of guilt among military parents who believe their lifestyle creates an Overly stressful in not aware of any segment of society where the lifestyle of the parents Doest determine the lifestyle of the Chil he and we in the military should not apologize for the fact that our children share our we should be proud of the absence of stress is he stress is the stuff of which life is and we dont necessarily do Bur children a favor by trying to completely shield them from Schwark said the two sources that Cre ate the most stress for military children Are expectations and dont we often expect our children to act like adults and preferably just like Hast it struck you As Odd to hear somebody say to an 8yearold dont act so childish our children perceive our desire for their we can reduce the stress on them by expecting them to act he All too we tend to project our feelings and aspirations on our we project our if we Are we May find it difficult to Deal with our introverted if we feel Happy we can be put off by their Moodi and vice versa if were feeling As a he parents tend to Transfer those feelings into hidden desires for their children to fulfil the parents vicarious if things Are going Well for we can stand a Little failure on the part of our but if things Are going a Little less Well for we May depend on our children and their Success to make it up to he Schwark said that military children Are special because they Are not be cause they Are military if they Are different its because they have had unique he l h 53 68 80 los Angeles 44 79 75 Louisville 39 54 90 Memphis 69 87 91 Miami Beach 51 59 Atlantic 60 Paul 58 66 77 Nashville 42 71 83 new Orleans 66 82 66 new York 26 56 68 Norfolk 42 64 82 Oklahoma City 50 79 61 Omaha 37 71 93 Orlando 70 82 71 Philadelphia 64 79 96 Phoenix 57 67 71 Pittsburgh 66 80 63 Maine 65 78 80 Ore 53 86 64 Providence 39 68 82 Raleigh 50 61 Des 63 Reno 57 73 73 Louis 36 56 94 Petersburg 47 52 63 Salt Lake City 47 67 67 san 68 84 80 san Francisco 68 80 84 san Juan 66 71 68 Seattle 66 92 76 Syracuse 48 73 Kansas 95 Tucson 67 93 Las 69 Washington 55 81 Little 80 Wichita 1 Soldier 1 badly Hurt in arc crash european weather forecast for Friday fair to partly Cloudy with slight Chance of afternoon some Patchy Early morn ing fog and afternoon Haze can be High temperatures from upper 60s to mid 70s lows from mid 40s to Low Sunset Friday Sunrise saturday Outlook for saturday Little As a High pressure area continues to bring fair skies and warm temperatures to Central Germany one Soldier was killed and another jaw was broken when they were pinned under a 1st army div armoured personnel Carrier that overturned during a routine training exer Cise wednesday a division spokesman said three other soldiers of the 1st 52nd inf in Bamberg walked away from the Accident with minor cuts and the injured Soldier was taken to the army Hospital in where his condition was listed As serious wednesday according to the his condition was upgraded to fair on thursday after Observatory surgery on his neck revealed no the spokesman said the dead soldiers platoon Leader had taken his track Forward on a Road in a local training when he realized one vehicle was he re traced his route where he found the two soldiers trapped under the which weighs about 12 division officials Are withholding the names of the dead and injured soldiers until their families have been temperatures recorded thursday 4am 4pm 4am 4pm m f p p p f 75 50 68 70 72 57 81 57 64 50 63 50 m p p m p p 54 48 70 46 68 43 54 46 70 50 72 54 72 partly Cloudy mostly Cloudy provided by Del 7th weather tra Bentzar army sergeant charged with triple slayings a an army sergeant was arrested thursday and charged with murder and sexual assault in the slayings of an air Force captains wife and two of her daughters whose throats were a third child survived the Timothy Bailey of Fayetteville was arrested without incident at his Home about 1 said sheriff Otis Hennis was charged with three counts of first degree murder and one count of sexual it was a very tragic thing out of the usual homicide Jones we feel real Good about the we have done our police said Hennis had visited the Home of Gary Eastburn end his to inquire about a dog for his family a few Days before the bodies of and her and were found her youngest 18 was authorities said the victims had been dead three Days when they were the suspect was handcuffed and with head into the Cumberland county Law enforcement Center by three county detectives he refused to answer Hennis was ordered held without Bond in the Cumberland county jail pending a court appearance officials Jones declined to say Why Hennis was charged in the he is an Active duty Soldier assigned to e 407th Jones said it appeared the suspect had known the East Burns for Only two or three Days before the and apparently met them when he went to buy the