European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday july 27, 1993 disgruntled teachers eager to retire dear Ann Landers All the members of our family Are longtime fans of yours but we have come to the conclusion that you must get out of your apartment in Chicago and find out what is really going on. My husband and i have a total of 65 years of teach ing Between us. Our experience extends from new York City to Miami. Your recent column made us both holler Bull when you pleaded with that teacher in California to hang in there be cause she was needed. A a a. Teachers Are blamed when students do poorly although thefault lies in the Home. A motivated child will do Well even with a Lousy teacher. The class room has become such a stressful place that most teach ers want to move up the ladder into nonteaching positions. The political mane vering that goes on behind the scenes is some thing to behold. Parents have relinquished to schools All the responsibilities that Are theirs except the ability to punish. While students behave in an unbelievably inappropriate manner teachers have lost the right to discipline them in a Way that would convey the message promptly. Sex jobs and to take priority Over education for Ann Landers most students today. And last but not least drug use by both parents and children is producing a generation of num skulls. My husband and i Are hanging on by our fingernails until we can retire in three years. God help this country if we Don t Wake up and Stop trying new programs that waste the taxpayers Money. Our society is in deep trouble and one need Only look at the classroom to understand Why. Or. And mrs. In Miami dear Miami i can understand your frustration but your not so Subtle message is that teachers should be permitted to hit students. Sorry. I Don t agree. Aside from the moral question in today s climate of violence with weapons All around it could be extremely dangerous and i am four Square against it. Expel yes. Hit no. Dear Ann Landers i am a boy who just turned 14. My feet Are too big and my face Breaks out just be fore i go somewhere and want to look decent. Am i Freak or what Kentucky dear Kentucky cheer up son. You sound pretty Normal to me. Letters to Ann Landers should to addressed to re at . Box 11562, pm Cago Iii. 60611-0562. C creators Syndicate another Story with a Happy ring to it dear Abby my daughter Rah into her sex Fiance at the mall. They had been broken up for about a year but when they saw each other again they realized they both still cared. Since neither one of them had met anyone Spe Cial my daughter gave him her new Telephone number As she had just moved into a new apartment. For several Days after that every time her Telephone rang she hoped it would be him but it was t. She told me she refused to Call him because he had broken their engagement and she thought if he really wanted to Sec her again he would Call her. She was so depressed and downhearted that after a few weeks had passed i finally talked her into calling him. He was very Happy to hear from her because he had tried to Call her but the Telephone number she had Given him was wrong the last two numbers were reversed and he thought Shehad Given him a wrong number on purpose. To make a Long Story Short they Are now happily married and Are expecting a baby Abby please Tell your readers that if someone gives them a new Telephone number and it s a wrong num Ber not to give up. Call a Mutual Friend and get the Correct number. One Telephone Call changed my Squibb key dear Abby daughter s life. Happy mom in Saginaw mom Good advice. It s amazing How one Telephone Call can change a person s life. Readers if one Telephone Call changed your life please write and Tell me about it. Dear Abby last month my husband s brother and his brother s Fiancee came to spend a weekend with us. Brother s divorce will be final Najt month and his lady Friend Dame Diana already has a Diamond ring on her linger. This will make wife no. 3 for brother who is not yet 45. Perhaps i should mention that brother draws a salary of $100,000 a year As a High powered corporate executive. Anyway Dame Diana made nine Long distance Tele phone Calls to her 12-year-old son who is a freshman at Eton boarding school in England. Then he called her collect four times. Anyway those Calls came to $166.90 i kept the Bill. I say we should be reimbursed for those Calls. My husband thinks we should skip it. By the Way i am not a working woman outside the Homeland my husband is in the $80,000-a-year bracket. We live Well but save Little. Connecticut Yankees dear Yankees i think you should forget the phone Bill. Donors Lorik column should a addressed to dear Abby Al . Box 447, mount Merrit itt. 61054. 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