European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes i letters to the editor 1 monday december 13,1993 thes a drop Neomoi col. Steven a. Hoffman Isaf common Tow puff lift Bernard a. Zovistoski. Editor news and editorial Bmat emf europ tin Eywor orb weft Abiew a with. News editor sports editor Georg Man City editor to write unit 29480 Apo a 09211 or Postrach 1114 37 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155601416 to Call dial 06155601 plus Extension or Dan 348-8 plus Extension follows news ext 237,255,282,226,326. Sports ext. 225,269,263,332,321,221, features ext. 230,245,341. Letters to editor ext. 206. Education Jim Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Jampit wort. Room 117, ramp Anantr. 104, e�1m hot Buff. Car 4lb, Boa 1316, Apo a 09103 tap inn Dan 371v 7010 or Conan 06221-23421 tttaxq022l-2723s,. Kaiserslautern Germany or run you Gowty John Bonne St sort Tow Sutt dog 2899. Up Tail brr a a. 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Pm not to be prison in response to a recent letter writers remarks about what was being done with the Frankfurt pm Complex the Frankfurt German police Are not going to turn the Complex into a police Presidio which Spanish for a prison Complex. They Are deciding on turning it into a police Pras drum which German for police Headquarters. A sgt. I a. Bly Darmstadt Germany a Limbaugh a no Issue from Reading the stories in your paper i have always assumed that there was a larger number of people who were actively lobbying for the Rush Limbaugh program. Now 1 see according to your Story dec. 3that polls Only reflect 0.2 percent want his television program and 3.9 percent want the radio program. Clearly your paper has made Rush Lim Baugh one of your biggest no Issue items. Statistics show that despite a few diehard fans the greater portion of the Mali tary does not want the program. Some people have charged that we should have Limbaugh because there Are television programs such Donahue the Oprah Winfrey show Etc which reflect a Liberal viewpoint. Actually i do not feel that these shows Are Liberal. they Are talk shows they bring a wide Range of people with various viewpoints usually people who Are not mainstream who wants to hear them talk for an hour and the hosts Are just polite. On the other hand Limbaugh a shows Are just filled with him telling Bis opinions on various things. If they do decide to bring Limbaugh onto the armed forces radio and television service i Hope that they will just bring on the 30-minute television program. I cannot imagine what they would be Able to take off to allow the whole three hour Rush Limbaugh radio program to air. The radio station has to Cater to a lot of tastes and in a sure there would be a major Quot Hue and cry from the fans of any show which was shortened or taken off to allow Limbaugh a program. One last Point on no Issue stones. What All of this reporting about a Soldier being prosecuted for writing bad checks with the whole world to report about i find it hard to believe that bad Check cases Are the Best stories you can find to report about. A staff sgt. Kimberly Borowiak Grafen Wuhr Germany editors note the Holiday season has produced a shortage of letters so this feature has been abbreviated. In place of Fetters we a present comments by our stable of columnists. Meanwhile we encourage our readers a especially those who have never submitted a letter a to write to expressing viewpoints or opinions that Are published daily on this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Preference Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Minorities led astray the letter a a change at Dodds nov. 9 a heartbreaker because it illustrates How easily minorities can be manipulated by politicians. In referring to skill based Reading groups or tracking technical name homogeneous grouping the writer actually talking about the Best Friend her child had in the school. She May be right that the system was put into place by administrators but it a system which widely applauded by teachers everywhere. Let me explain homogeneous group ing. It no secret that a High teacher Pupil ratio one of the keys to Quality education a ratio of one teacher to one Pupil would allow the teacher to focus Only on the needs of that one student a system that would allow the student to. Progress at his or her fastest possible Pace. It logistically impractical to allow a teacher to teach Only one student but skill based grouping the next Best thing because it allows the teacher to focus on a very narrow Range of skills and needs. If All of the pupils had identical skills it would be very much like teaching Only one child. Tracking marvelous for the children Well. The tighter the Range of skills the closer each child comes to progressing at his or her highest possible. Pace. Conversely the wider the Range of skills in a classroom the slower the Progress for both the upper and lower ability ranges because most teachers try to teach to the class average skill level. Some compassionately teach at a Pace which can be followed by even the slowest in the class. It unfortunate that skill based grouping now considered politically incorrect. Politicians agitate minority parents by telling them that children of a differ ent race religion or National origin Are getting a a a better education in the same school this not True. Each class gets the same Quality of education even though every class unique. Each child in each classroom working to his or her maximum potential rather than toward the class average. The stars and stripes has Given a lot of coverage to the continuous yearly increase by department of defense dependent schools pupils in standardized test scores including the All important Scholastic aptitude tests. Many of these Are students who benefited from skill based grouping. Deloris Muldrow Saunders will undoubtedly be Long gone by the time the effects of her actions Are known. A Kenneth e. Kaplan Heidelberg Germany commentary these Days random violence Only natural by John h. Gagnon this news Story has now become. Routine a Man with a rapid firing handgun or assault Rifle kills and maims a group of people just going about everyday business. The number of dead and wounded May vary does the venue of the assault. Sometimes Only a couple sometimes two score or More Are casualties. One time it a group of exercisers in a health club another time folks working in an employment office still another commuters on their Way Home on a train. In t11e aftermath of the incident there an orgy of explanation and speculation. The killing and maiming of people by a stranger with a gun cries out for a reason. What made this particular killer do it Why did he choose these victims Why were these people killed and the persons sitting next to them spared what can we do to prevent the same thing happening again it almost seems disrespectful to the dead and to the survivors not to have a plausible reason for what happened and what can be done about it. Random violence resembles a Force of nature. It erupts into our daily lives in the same Way that a firestorm Burns through a California suburb a Hurricane Levels a town in Florida or a flood washes levees away in Iowa at the same time we Don t want the acts of human beings treated the same Way we treat earthquakes fires and floods. Human actions must have a Pur pose human sacrifice must provide lessons there must be people with White hats and people with Black hats. But random violence May actually make More sense than we think. And it May be More like the nor easter than we want to believe. Social forces Are actually much like natural forces except that we Are collectively both the causes and the victims. All that today a random violence requires the fusing together of an easily available technology and a ready Supply of the routinely a disrespected a workers Are being shed by their employers to increase profits the sick cannot find treatment the consumer feels bilked by the seller the voter feels betrayed by empty promises by the politicians and the unrich Are told that they Are failures by every passing advertisement Why can to you afford a Bow. A lot of surplus rage being produced. The great storm comes the Barrier beaches Are breached Sand dunes Wash away houses disappear in the surf and we Call it an act of nature. Acts of random violence Are simply the result of widespread degradation and disappointment multiplied by the machine gun. 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