Posted on 08/25/2006 6:09:16 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
Or the Mengele Medical School
I am a proud alumnus of the Bad Kreuznach American School and the Darmstadt American School.
I'll just bet that Miss Kyla Jeffries the 7th grader is NOT just of Japanese, Puerto Rican, black and white heritage but is AMERICAN.
Does this mean the word 'American' will be removed from any future list of requests for arms, armies, charity etc from this part of the world? This could save us a whole lot of $$.
Dodds reasoning makes perfect sense.
The Japanese/America girl totally missed the point.
Dodds isn't making a statement about heritage. It's just talking about searching for schools in a directory.
No contractor ever lost money by underestimating the idiocy of the ordinary DoDDS administrator. Yeah, as a former D oDDS employee, It think it highly possible that this is some brainstorm coming from some idea with nothing better to do. BTW, Ramstein has generally been called RHS since it opened more than 20 years ago.
DODDS has to hire teachers from somewhere....so the liberal jerks from the states have finally gotten through to our schools for military children. If they get their way with this renaming garbage, the rest of the agenda-driven teaching will not be far behind.
Who cares. This story tells me the school will have an Arabic name 10 years from now anyway.
Bring em home. No dependents outside CONUS. Seems they've developed "Stockholm syndrome".
They could be changing the names to keep them from being easily identified by terrorists. It might be an effort to protect the students. But, with bureaucrats you just never know. Could be a Clinton appointee making a fool of himself, as usual.
This is my first post at FR.
At first blush, this action is insulting. After further thought, when viewed as an anti-terror measure, it makes sense. With all the anti-American sentiment and open calls for jihad against American interests - this may prove to be a wise move.
DOD has announced Americans are no longer to dress in shorts, baseball caps and T-shirts with tacky sayings on them while walking around in Europe - they also may no longer eat exclusively at McDonald's and BurgerKing nor talk loudly in public.
How does changing the name of the Ramstein American High School located on Ramstein Air Base to Ramstein High School still located on Ramstein Air Base make it any less likely that a terrorist will attack it?
"With all the anti-American sentiment and open calls for jihad against American interests - this may prove to be a wise move."
I cannot see how. Any terror-oriented group that cannot figure out a school with an english name (xxx high school, fort xyz elementary, etc), usually located on american bases, are american schools is something i would not count on being the norm.
"They could be changing the names to keep them from being easily identified by terrorists"
Virtually all of these schools are located on posts/bases. the only exception i can think of are former DoDDS schools in panama after the treaty, which obviously were located in the canal zone.
it is just for a directory now, but it is very possible in a few years they will require the directory name to be used as the only name for the school on all correspondence.
This will be interpreted in Jihadist circles as a victory, and they'll be right.
I'm a retired veteran and my kids graduated from Bad Kreuznach American High School in Germany. We always just called it BK.
The truth is that there's no problem determining that it's an American High School. They play football, basketball, cheerleading, etc. They are off when German schools are not. They go all day and the German schools don't. They have buses and the German schools don't. It's little America in the middle of Deutschland, and trust me, there's no mistaking it.
This is no big deal. It's a paperwork thing.
My wife taught for them as well. I smile when I think about this. It's like changing the name of Cleveland Consolidated School District to "Cleveland School District."
No Big Deal.
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