European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ass Choloa by Dave 01010 several people Are crammed into a Small office at Butzbach elementary. He bum teaches a Barman class at the Busbach school. New building in Butzbach promises Long awaited Relief the end of Tfaye horror Story school Lowies a lot of bureaucratic people you have to Ducj with i can t lust say we need a to eco How. Hutc and Here and expect to gel them All built " Bill Takasato. Chief of logistics Lor Germany schools by Dav Walczak education writer he Days of using stairways Lor offices and Shower rooms Lor lounges May soon be Over at Butzbach elementary in Sulzbach Germany. By the beginning of the 1988 89 school year a $2-4 million school addition should be ready for occupancy ending eight years of discussion red Lape and Quick tin solutions thai Only added to Sulzbach s problems this is he place said Sulzbach elementary principal Harold Schyberg. This is the horror Story  but the Dracula that Schyberg referred to appears throughout the department of defense dependents schools landscape. School officials often face insurmountable obstacles in trying to make major building improvements. Bill Takasaki chief of logistics for Germany schools knows the frustration thai accompanies even the most pressing building needs. A. Can have the requirement. We can Havo the dollars but we still need the military Community to help us will the design and procurement process. There s Loo Many things out chafe we can t control Dodds officials often find thai simple information such As Prudi clog school growth is outside their reach Sulzbach ele Mcnary opened nov. 8, 1955, with 380 students. But had lumped to 550 by 1974 and reached an enrolment of 750 under Lormer principal Wendell a Jalam Parl of the student increase slammed from a school system decision to add children living n iwo housing areas to bul Bacn Elc mediary but the army added to the crowding by shitting More troops to the area served by Hie school Buntain said local army optic gals provided Only vague information when he asked Lor specific figures. "1 was hard to got Good information Buntain said 11 knew there was a lot of army wide move Cal in the area but the military was slow to own up la the problem gelling a handle on numbers is a common diff Cully or Odds planners. In a lot of cases we Don t know until two months before the move that a whole battalion is moving in Takasaki said. Sometimes we Don t know until Afler they be moved in. No one s going to give you a live year to Jeclin certainly not Trie  Schyberg would have needed a 32-year projection to avoid the sardine like conditions faced by the current enrol men of 946 students at Butzbach. The school was built with German reparation funds owed to lha United states from world War ii. Contoured Over a rolling Hillside he building Cost $59,000 and covers 36,306 Square feel. That was Large enough to a Comorato a student population ranging irom 500 to 550. Said Helen Centanni bul Bacn elementary principal from 1974 to 1979 and current District superintendent Lor dodos schools in Spain. Bui at 750 students the school system embarked on a Quick fix course that led to the present situation. Dodos started building temporary classrooms separated from the main building in response to a poor report from a visiting Dodds accreditation team. This mushrooming tendency As one area Engineer called it produced clusters of classrooms some located so far from the main building thai up to 150 children Board contract buses to and from Art and gym classes in the Middle of Iho Day. Tho Al in Allacher classroom Cluster was reeled in 1962. But the Imp diary classroom building program Accel rated following in accreditation team s Vicil 01 the school s 36classroom5 Only 14 Are in the main building. Wilh classroom space at a Pic mum Schyberg Dutott Pagan the stars and stripes whatever room was Lufi to provide working space Lor the Small. For teacher Hill rude Reuschling a former stairway became her office Complete Wilh a staircase that effectively slices her work area in Hall j the school s Shower room was convened to a teacher s lounge which Schyberg said is the Only place in the building where teachers can gel away irom j the children for a Lew minutes the principal yielded part of his office to provide the Only private conference room in the school. It s not the Best situation to Tell parents and teachers that their  is in the principal s office Schyberg said j there is no other  there was a limit to How Many subdivisions could be carved Oul leaving Counselor John Cowern to hold counselling sessions in the foyer and the librarian to yield shelf space to make Way for school supplies. Washrooms Are so few and space so limited that teachers share facilities with students. Those who share can be considered Lucky. Some of the clusters of classrooms have no toilet facilities which Means numerous class Lime treks Lotha main  assigned to the dusters Nave other problems. Aft teacher Jim Boytes said children get first hand zoology lessons every Winter when shrews and hedgehogs leave the cold of the nearby Woods for the warmth of the quonset Hul classroom. Some of those buildings Schyberg said have been designed to last seven years and they be lasted 24.1 would estimate that Odds has spent $1 million to maintain these. The wording used by Dodds engineers in a 1966 document to jus Lily the construction now underway is just As Blunt. Presently Slu Denh Musl utilize eight substandard temporary prefabricated buildings which Are beyond reasonable maintenance those buildings Are poorly heated and have no  the crazy quilt Katlein of classrooms produces impurities in numbers of children per class third Grade saturday Novet