European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 11, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 teachers from Germany get ays in Georgia Washington a _ four math teachers from West Germany recently joined american teachers m n competency lest in Aila Nln. The germans were so Conn Dent that they left their calculators Al Home. The 93 americans brought their calculators atone. Only 14 passed. The germans meanwhile placed second fifth ninth and i Toh on the test. Georgia now has eight West germans in tis school sys we according to Warner Rogers Georgia s associate superintendent of schools for planning. He plans to ask local school boards How Many More they would like for the next school year. Faced with a growing shortage of teachers particularly i Moth and sciences the United slates is adding them to its Long list of imparts. American High schools Are raising their science requirements the size of classes is being decreased and american teachers arc an aging group and Many Are hearing retirement. Bottom line projected teacher shortages in the next decade will be Many times the capacity of colleges and universities to meet said Chris Pipho. Who directs a Clearing House for research at the education commission of the slates in Denver. In the year that ended last sept. 30, the immigration Anil nalu Rali Atlin service Esli Wircs that Mure Ilian 11.000 teacher came to this country work up from at least  the previous year. Louisiana Winch makes a Point of preserving its Trench heritage has been bringing in teachers since 1972 from Belgium. I Rance and Canada. In some years in has had As Many As 300. A belgian teachers group keeps a representative in Baton Rouge Louisiana s capital to help belgian teachers find jobs in America. California has 200 teachers shia year from Canada. New York City has brought in sonic from Spain. Haiti More has Exchange teachers from Austria and Germany. Language is less of a problem than might be expected. When Nan american teachers arc hired to teach their own language they can gel along with a minimum of English some prefer language teaching methods in which the student s native language is used As Little As possible. German teachers Al have gone through academic secon Dary schools at Home where they have studied English for eight years. They often take additional courses Al their universities those who have come Here have reported trouble Only with american Slang perhaps astonished at hearing non Standard English in the schoolroom an unlikely event in Germany. Pipho said culture Shock is a problem. Tim Slun old come As no Surprise to american parcels. Who me also suffering from Junior High school culture  he added n Hawaii shop teacher George  an american ran into a problem when Kandi  13, declined to stand up and Chani Good morning. Or Nishimura when he came into the Rioin. She took the Case to Federal court claiming her right to free speech was being Viola led the Issue was settled when school authorities ruled thai she would have in stand bul Coald refrain from chanting. At Walt Whitman High school in Bethesda. My. A class in japanese makes no problem about bowing on com Mand to the teacher Minoru Viyola. Who actually comes from Japan. They Bow from their seats instead of stand ing As might be done in Japan. Rogers reported that in Georgia the problems of Man aging classrooms were solved easily with support from school administrators. But Ray latin who Heads the Center for education management in san Diego sees cultural differences As taking extreme forma. I know districts in los Angeles where they would take a teacher from Germany and just cat him alive he said. Boy s Patchwork skin becomes permanent los Angeles a when most of Osbaldo Serrano s skin was burned two and a half years ago he received what were meant to be temporary skin grafts from White Black hispanic and Oriental cadavers. Now doctors say the skin transplants have become permanent. He has All kinds of skin said his Sisler Carol Serrano 18. I Don t think it affects him. He takes it As his Normal skin. He s like an Ordinary brother. We Nguc we  i m glad in worked 13-year-old Osbal do said thursday by Telephone from his Home in Lancaster so Miles North of los Angeles. I m healthy now i d like to thank the doctors Tor doing a great  on some areas of Osbaldo s body you can see a Patchwork effect said University spokesman Joel Don. But the varying colors of the boy s skin arc not very obvious com pared with Osbaldo s scars said or. Bruce Achauer the director of the Burn unit at the University of California Irvine medical Center in Orange. The successful Short term use of the drug cyclosporine to prevent rejection of Osbaldo s unmatched transplanted skin was reported saturday in the British Jour Nal lancet by Achauer. We had assumed thai the boy would reject the cadaver skin grafts after we stopped the medication but he did Tachauer said. The situation was supposed to be temporary. We grafted the cadaver skin so thai he could grow enough of his own unhurried skin to replace the foreign  but two years after doctors ended Osbal do s four month treatment with cyclosporine which has become popular in acc Cal years to prevent the rejection of trans planted organs he shows no sign of rejecting the donor skin. This is a remarkable finding because in shows for the first time that you can graft unmatched donor skin to Burn victims with out the need for subsequent skin graft operations of the patient s own skin said Achauer n plastic surgeon. Eighty five percent of Osbaldo s skin was burned in mid-1933, when n car in which he Rod with one of his four Sisters and four of his five Brothers caught fire. Serrano and Osbaldo s father Mario said he was burned while pulling his two youngest Brothers from the car. The Broth ers. Jerry 8, and Mark 5, died later. Don said the cadaver skin used for Osbaldo who is of latin american descent was obtained from a skin Bank and does t come tagged with  but we took skin grafts from the Bank that were of obviously mined races he said. They appear to be Black White his panic and  previously Don said even closely matched transplanted skin had lasted no More than three Montha before being rejected two other patients at Uci died of their Burns despite a course of cyclosporine therapy similar to Osbaldo she said. Tim employees falsified records before Accident Harrisburg a. Up three mile Island nuclear Plant s owners have announced disciplinary action Gamst n lop manager and 16 of her employees or be falsification of key records at the unit 2 reactor before its near meltdown in la employees trying to cover up unacceptably w Rales of reactor Coo log water leaks falsified test records said the three utilities that own Tim and its operator Gnu nuclear corp. Tim s unit 2 was crippled on March 28, 1979 in the nation s worst commercial nuclear Power Accident when mechanical and sewn mor led 10 a loss of Cooling so Taid. Puerto Dicuns have to work hard to overcome the negative stereotypes peo ple have put on  William me calf said the and la Iutuk. The wrong lesson to the schoolchildren of Llo Boken sending the message it s nol what you learn that s important bul How pretty you  Evelyn Arroyo claimed that the Hoboken school system has one of the worst dropout rates in thu stale because of political interference old fashioned ideas and poor communication Between teachers and parents