European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 education Dodds plans to hire More teachers by Dave Walczak education writer More teachers will be hired to help alleviate overcrowded classrooms caused by thousands of unanticipated students the director of overseas schools in West Germany said tuesday. Joseph Blackstead said that John Stremple. Director of the department of defense dependents schools promised monday to provide additional funds from the Dod budget to hire about 65 More teachers. Local school officials had asked for More teachers at the beginning of the year but were told that no More could be hired because of budget constraints. Germany school officials were caught off guard by the surge in enrolment for which they had no explanation. They had predicted an enrol men of 88,700, but the latest figures showed 90,138 students attending the Germany Region s 139 schools. I eak enrolment during school year 1988-89 totalled 88.288. Region finance offices predict each school s enrolment using information from local commands and Pierc Gislla lion data from schools. The enrolment jump is confined to Germany. Officials from the Mediterranean and Atlantic regions reported no similar surge. Blackstead said Region officials had Al ready filled every authorised teaching space and would need about 65 additional teachers to bring the Overall teacher student ratio to acceptable Levels. A Germany Region spokesman said Region officials strive for student teacher ratios of about 25 to i for elementary grades. 27.4 to i for grades six. Seven and eight and 26 to i for High schools. The ratios which vary from school to school include specialists such As those in Reading and special education As class room teachers. Blackstead said nearly All the expected new teachers would be local hires be cause it would take too Long to bring stateside hired teachers into the system. He declined to predict when More teach ers will be assigned. The enrolment increase is a specially pronounced in  District schools where 14.950 students were expected and 15.65 1 Are enrolled. To Start with this Many kids does t seem very  said Terry Kacik. The District s Deputy superintendent. We re overcrowded and  Zweir Lycken High school also was caught off guard by unanticipated num Bers of students. School officials had expected about 780 students to enrol at the school for grades seven through 12. But 894 have already showed up. The enrolment boost is concentrated among seventh ninth and loth graders. Said school principal Richard i Penkava. Who said he needs at least four teachers to meet the needs of the  the school s English and social studies teachers Are dealing with larger number of students per class. I Penkava said. Some of them Aren t going to like  pc Kava said. But safety factors make it impossible to increase class sics in areas such As Auto shop the computer lab or chemistry  Stuttgart High school officials expected 793 students to enrol this year but enrolment stands at 883. And Princi pal Helen Ducey said More students could arrive by november. She said the influx has created rather Large classes in some  which she dim cd As More than 30 per class. The freshman class contained the largest number of unexpected students. The Rise in enrolment is not Universal. At Stuttgart Patch High school for example school officials reported that 40 fewer students had enrolled than expected. Enrolment also fell at a Heilbronn elementary Junior High. But most Stuttgart District schools re ported higher enrolments leaving local school officials holding their breath i Hopes of adding faculty said Stuttgart District superintendent Don Dixona. Almost every elementary in the District reported enrolment increases. Lud Wissburg was up 45. Our Burg 41. Kit Ingon 40 and Patch i Anda Schaffenburg 20. Classroom close ups a Jim Dur hmm Drew Dunens 5, Sun of warrant officer Bernard and Michelle omens creates artwork in Pam Fithian s first Krade class at Frankfurt Elemen tary school. Losing sleep May impair learning Washington a students who study hard monday through Friday and then party All night on weekends May lose much of what they Learned during the week according to a sleep researcher. Carlyle Smith a professor of psychology at Trent University in Peterborough Ontario said the retain ing of new Complex knowledge is a fragile thing that can be disrupted even by mild sleep deprivation Dur ing critical nigh is just after learning the  appears skewing the sleep Cycle by just two hours can have this effect said Smith. This Means that the sleep periods following a class or a study period can be As important to learning As the Book work itself he  a Long late movie the night following a class and then sleeping in the next morning will make it so you re not learning what you thought he said. You ii not lose it All just about 30  a paper prepared for a meeting of the association of professional sleep societies Smith said he re searched the effects of sleep deprivation on learning by controlling the sleep of four groups of students after they had All been taught a Complex logic game and a list of paired  group was deprived of sleep for the night after learning the task. That same night another group was awakened whenever the participants slipped into the deep phase of slumber called rapid Eye movement sleep or Rem. Another group was awakened during sleep periods that were not Rem and the fourth group was allowed to sleep normally. When tested a week later on the paired words there was no learning deficit among any of the groups. But when tested on the Complex logic game the group deprived of All sleep or of Rem sleep All showed a learning deficit of 30 percent compared to the other two groups. Banned 51 novel replaced by one about Book burning Boron. Calif. A Boron High school Sluik it barred from Reading the Catcher in the  a Mel about adolescent angst will instead be assigned fahrenheit 451." about a future society that Burns books. The school Board last month voted 4-1 to ban the 1951 novel by . Salinger because parents and activists complained about profanity and perceived Ami family values in the Book. English teacher Shelley Keller Gage said she chose to replace the Hook with fahrenheit 451," a science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury about a future where firefight ers Burn books and television dominates society. I taught fahrenheit 451 last fall Keller Gage said. I m not doing it in relation to the school Board decision. It is an ironic coincidence you might  Salinger s novel was removed from a 70-Book High school assigned Reading list in the 3,000-Studcnt District. Boron is a desert Community about 75 Miles from downtown los Angeles. I Don t consider this a ban said Board president Jim Summers. We restricted it that s True. But the Book is in the Library. More kids arc going to read it now As a result of All this. And they re going to get a Fine education without that Book on the Reading  religious activist Patty Sola a who has not read the Book said the Salinger novel uses the lord name in vain 200  thai s enough reason to ban it right  she said. They say it describes reality. I say let s Back up from reality. Let s go backward. Let s go Back to whence did t have an immoral  Nathan Cathcart 17, called the ban ridiculous. At that age they know the words he said. When i walk Down the Hall i hear kids in Junior High say More cuss words in a minute than i say in an entire  Haig was deep Throat Book reportedly to say new York a Alexander Haig will reveal Ina future Book that he was the deep Throat source for Many newspaper stories about watergate Accord ing to a published  will disclose the role in his memoirs inner Cir cles to be published in 1992 by Warner books Accord ing to unidentified sources in tuesday s daily news. Haig a retired general former Secretary of state and one time presidential candidate also was president Nixon s last chief of staff. He has denied he was deep Throat the source who Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward said met him in parking garages to convey information about the watergate scandal. Deep Throat was the key informer Washington Post reporters Woodward and Carl Bernstein used for their pulitzer Prisic winning articles uncovering the 1972 watergate scandal