European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                My families simply student ratio it 25 plus students to on one instruction in any times do you " less you re the class " says chaplain ing his own child can trained teacher in a is Kathenne Imbert. Augsburg who even though they re v single one " ods Are getting More n Home. O Gara says. A system that our visual kids in the ale and Are modifying Ivi dual needs of All Lara says Paren Stacher Cher relationship share in their child s Way they would like. Jolly training and off for someone else n beings " Rodgers re Joy of being there St Buh us at or asked to pick the agrees Ann hem take their first Ann Edmeston works with her daughter. Heather. Is Jim Sarheim do Home schooners miss out by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer the Rodgers family school a Row House Inlenfeld West Germany has no chemistry lab. Woo shop or gymnasium Bui thai does t worry teacher and Mother Cam Rodgers ii the kids really want to learn something Well find a Way " if Jenny. Becky. Stevie or Peler has an interest in say. Irons. They la Lind a local Park worker to Leach the child. She says when chemistry becomes an interest they might try to line up a Short term apprenticeship with a local Laboratory. For interests such As Art computers or Wood working Home schooners will band together she says about 25 families in the Wurzburg area already have combined resources to provide their children More enrichment activities. Every monday morning. The girls attend dance class at the local youth activities censer the group Hopes to soon offer gymnastics for the boys the families also get together regularly for Art Proi Els and Field trips in november for example. The families went to the Gutenberg museum of the printing arts in main West Germany another t me they held a Library skills workshop for the kids to learn such things As the Dewey Decimal system for filing. They also plan charitable activities such As adopting an old folks Home or baking cookies for Hospital patients so the children learn to be Active in society. Says Rodgers. Whose husband. Paul is an continued on Page 16 special Parent Sand special children1 by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer f Ginny Hamblin had had her druthers she d druther not have laugh her children at Home last year. But she did t have much of a Choice living More than an hour s drive from the nearest English language school. Sure she could have enrolled Brian and Laura in German schools but she and her husband Danny feared the children would lose a year of study just picking up the German language. So armed with curriculum provided by the Dodds system Mother turned teacher and dining room table turned desk for the Hamblin children our hours each Day it involved a lot of Uphill climbs says Hamblin Whoso children now attend a Odds one room school that opened in August. It takes a special Parent and special child in to make it  the Hambling live in mess Ste ten. West Germany about 50 Miles of secondary Road South. From Bobingen and the nearest Dodds school. Their isolated location where Danny is a an free technical sergeant with Tiu 7305w aircraft control and warning right made them Cand dates Lor the Home teaching program sanctioned by the department of defense dependents schools. Dodds has about 20 Home taught students in places such As Kiel West Germany and Moscow where no English language schools Are available. The Parent teachers receive Calvert school material from Baltimore for elementary grades and University of Nebraska Extension school curriculum for High school. Ginny Hamblin says her first three months teaching kindergarteners Laura and second grader Brian were the hardest although the calve t school designs its material Tor people with limited or no teaching backgrounds every Day meant preparing five new lessons for each child plus coming up with ideas Lor enrichment activities she says. I was the Only one in town Home teaching and i did t have an elementary school or support group to All Back on for fresh  Hamblin says luckily Hamblin was Able to borrow materials from the files of three teachers who lived in the Community of 1,000. I did lots of Xerox ing and tracing of things such As thanksgiving turkeys with dozens of Tail feathers she says. Hamblin also says it was difficult to juggle two Grade Levels Brian for example sometimes had a hard time concentrating on his work while Ginny worked with his sister. The Hambling third child Mandy then 3, also competed Lor the teacher s attention. You need a lot of patience a Little bit of creativity and a Good sense of humor says Hamblin whose previous teaching experience was limited to volunteering in pro school and kindergarten classes however Hamblin Calls the arrangement Good for Mother children  and As a result she says Shell always be More involved in what they Are learning and want to know what they Are learning to know them  Shell also be a better speller and better at punctuation and  she says. A 28,1990 stars and stripes Page 15