European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. May 29. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 education news cheaters disrupt sexuality class san f11anc1sco a the human sexuality class at san Francisco state University sin an uproar Over cheating and some students could be flunked or expelled University officials say. The final examination for the class the school s most popular course has been tossed out because some students cheated officials said. I guess they Don t want o run Home and say they flunked sex said student discipline officer Robert we Elwood. Westwood said that at least 10 students of class of 7do were caught last week taking the final with the help of duplicate copies marked with the Correct answers. The lest was hatted and declared void a makeup test was scheduled later. Some students told school officials that copies of the test had been floating around the Campus for about a week before the cum. One student said the copies were being hawked out of a car. Teacher Ann Auleb said she was furious to discover the cheating theorizing that some Stu dents apparently found the class too demanding. Many students come to this course thinking they know everything about human sexuality she said. They find out they Don to they find an easy Way  teacher assaults prompt . Union Call for Security teacher can t apologize for driving while drunk Elpaso Texas a a High school teacher who pleaded guilty to eight Drunken driving charges will spend the summer and 37 weekends in jail and pay a 15,000 Fine. Curtis Burton 41, said at the sentencing that he has told his English students at Bel air High school about his drinking problem. "1 would like to say i m remorseful he told judge d. Clark Hughes and the crowded courtroom. I sorry. Can t apologize for my disease because alcohol ism is a  Burton was arrested on Drunken driving charges in october 1994, three times in 1985. Once in 1986 and twice in 1987. His last arrest was in january. New York a after a week in which new York City teachers were bludgeoned stashed Pumm cd sandblasted their Union Leader called Friday for increased Security and tougher sentences for teacher attacks. One attack against a teacher is outrageous and Mohave four in one week is just intolerable said United federation of teachers president Sandra Feldman and we re afraid that this i just the lip of he  though schools officials insisted the number of at tacks on teachers had actually decreased in three Yean mayor Edward i. Koch said the City was concerned about teacher safety and he colled a Summit meeting tuesday of the Chancellor Union leaders the five District attorneys and police commissioner to discuss the  latest act of violence occurred thursday afternoon when a physical education teacher came upon an intruder rifling through students gym bags outside a Bronx school and was beaten unconscious with a baseball  Smith 37, who remained unconscious Friday was the fourth teacher to be assaulted. Douglas de Marco was knifed monday More than 3 dozen limes Bya mugger in the bathroom of a South Bronx grammar school. The other incidents included a Brooklyn teacher who was beaten up by a student he student s brother and sister tuesday and a 7 year old Brooklyn teacher injured wednesday by an m-80 firecracker tossed into her classroom. All the victims except Smith were in Good Condi Tion Friday officials  s something seriously wrong Here said do Marco who added that the attack on Smith made him even More angry and  need for increased Security has Long been Evi Dent to de Marco who said he leaches in a neighbor Hood that s known for two things heroin and  de Marco speaking from his Hospital bed said his attacker was some Young crazed Guy looking to make a Quick  assailant got a few subway tokens and a couple of dollars do Marco got kicked in the ribs Abdomen and Groin and Stabb Din the car neck shoulder Side and Back a few More inches and it could have been my Eyer an artery and we would t be having this Conversa Tion said do Marco who is expected to  the Board of education said the number of As saults in City schools has decreased mainly became of an increase in Security guards in elementary schools. There were 1,332 assaults in the City s 1,000 schools in 1985-86 and 969 this year said Board spokesman  included 337 teachers assaulted in 1985-86 and i so so far this year he said. The rest were on students or other personnel including custodians and cafeteria workers. An assault could be anything begin Ning with a shove against a Wall Terte said. In addition Terte said 350 Security guards have been added in the last two years and the. Operating budget for school safety increased from s3i.b million to nearly 543.2 million. There arc currently 2,081 guards in  the aft insists there were about 1,000 physical attacks against teachers both last year and this  Muir chairman of the aft school safely committee said about 20 percent required emergency room  Feldman acknowledged a decrease in teacher assaults and a Rise in Security personnel she said it s obviously not Good enough. If we have four incidents in one week and if we have a situation where a teacher can be bludgeoned this Way in a schoolyard while he s teaching kids then obviously the Effort and i do acknowledge the Effort in t  praised new schools Chancellor Richard Green for his proposal to put Metal detectors in five violence prone schools this fall and said she Felt he was anxious to Stem  she said the changes can t come quickly enough. The aft wants guards in every school and police officers in troubled neighbourhood. The Union also i pushing for legislation to make any physical attack on a teacher a felony offence no Mailer How minor. A Bill is pending in the state Senate. Feldman said that too often if the defendant is a minor nothing is  it s already difficult to get teachers into the school system without adding problems like these. Feldman said. She said about half the system s 63,000 teachers Are eligible to retire and these incidents arc Likely to prompt some to say look i be had  Douglas de Marco however is not one of  look around this room and see All the letters and pictures the kids Lent me and there is no Way i can t go Back he said. Don t drink the water some schoolkids told by the associated press students in a Rural Alabama District and in eight Boston schools have been told not to drink the schools water after potentially hazardous matter was found m their drinking supplies. The order to Stop using the water a Snow Hill school about 40 Miles South West of Montgomery ala., came this past week on the last Day of class. The Alabama department of environmental management which tested the water ear Lier this month found that its col form bacteria count was More than 25 time the level considered potentially danger Ous. Cal form bacteria Are normally found in animals colons in water supplies they indicate contamination by focal matter. Continued High exposure o the bacteria makes a person More susceptible to digestive disorders said Catherine Lamar a spokeswoman for the Environ mental Agency. In Boston the problem was excessive amounts of Lead discovered in the water supplies of eight Public schools in a Tele vision station s Survey. The report prompted testing at All City schools Over the memorial Day weekend said John Stobierski of the male department of Public health. These schools that have High Levels of Lead or those that we Don t have results for will be on bottled water when schools reopen on tuesday after the Holiday Stobierski said. The drinking water at Snow Hill school was As bad As you can gel said Joe Power chief of the Adem s Public water Supply Branch. It s like drinking untreated water from a Creek or  Power said samples taken by his Agency May 16 showed the water to be contaminated at More than 25 limes the potentially dangerous level of col form bacteria. School systems in the stale Are supposed to lest their water monthly Andreport bacterial Levels to the slate and the Agency stepped in when it failed to receive the reports from the District. He said students at Snow Hill have been drinking Well water contaminated at More than seven times the danger level since january when the school re opened after a Cine shut for 15 years. The 347 students were switched to Snow Hill from a school in Fine Hill after state officials ordered the county not to use the Pine Hill school which was plagued by leakage of raw sewage and Oiher problems. A fire destroyed he main Campus building at Pine i last fall. Power said stomachaches viruses or other illness contracted by students since january possibly could have been caused by the drinking water. 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