Sentences with phrase «white parents took»

... funny how many White parents took money from Michael Jackson for their kids.

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A letter obtained by the Canadian Press from a lawyer representing the Great White North Franchise Association to Tim Hortons parent company Restaurant Brands Inc. said if RBI refuses to meet with franchisees by Friday to discuss «deficient IT practices» and «future IT protocols» they will take the matter to court.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

I take care of foster kids too, and the last 4 kids where white kids that were abused by their meth smoking parents.

Just use common sense his parents lived in Bethlehem they was decedents of King David a Hebrew take into the account Jesus was a carpenter and he also traveled outside a lot so he definitely wouldn't have been white looking to any of his contemporaries he was a probably more of an olive skinned person muscular and the physical appearance of someone that was a hard worker hardly what the Vatican or Protestants have pictured him out to be which is a sickly skinny weak looking person.

Where parents take their newly born children and place them in the arms of a metal statue that has been heated white hot because they think they will gain some benefit by sacrificing their children in the fire.

Rose and her parents actually kidnap black people, hypnotize them, take out their brains and then sell their bodies to the highest white — or white - adjacent — bidder who intends to put their brains into black people's bodies.

iDolls are a most modern take on a noise machine or other lovey — with built - in speakers and an MP3 port safely tucked away inside, parents can download their favorite music or sounds, and the cute dolly (Lulu in pink or Pax in blue) plays whatever music, message, or white noise mom or dad has downloaded.

she is a committed attachment parenting advocate, and she exhausted every avenue — took him to doctors, co-slept, didn't co-sleep, slept with him on a futon on the floor, changed her bedding & blinds & diet, bought a slew of white noise generators, etc. the lack of sleep was affecting her marriage & her own mental health, as you can imagine.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

Potty training takes an insane amount of time, energy, and absolute patience, which are all things that most parents white knuckle their way into acquiring.

Also you must take in account that it is a known fact that different parenting styles are effective for different races, While White and Hispanic children benefit from an authoritative parenting style, it has been found that authoritarian parenting styles are more beneficial for Black and Asian children.

So, parents choose to take a beautiful word like «Heaven» and reverse it so that it became a thick, white lotion used on dried - out elbows.

Something else that takes most parents by surprise is that baby girls often have a white vaginal discharge following birth, as well as one or two days of blood streaks.

According to the press release, today's nuptials took place almost 40 years to the day after the groom's parents were married at a nationally - celebrated White House Rose Garden ceremony.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

The city's new Parks Commissioner, Veronica White, is best known for her controversial anti-poverty experiments, including trying to pay poor people to attend parent - teacher conferences and take their kids to the dentist.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — To highlight National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, which runs through Oct. 31, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino encourages parents to take care to keep their homes lead - safe and to keep products that may contain lead away from their young children.

And in another move announced last week, the government will conduct an inquiry into a long - discredited policy which, up until the 1960s, resulted in tens of thousands of Aboriginal children being taken from their parents and raised by white families.

San Diego Zoo Global has decided to take on the enormous task of using cryopreserved tissue for cross-species cloning to revive the Northern White Rhino, with southern white rhinos as the surrogate parWhite Rhino, with southern white rhinos as the surrogate parwhite rhinos as the surrogate parents.

Parents trust the pediatric physicians at White Oak Pediatrics because they take the time to get to know all of their patients.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Take some of her recent parts: the colonial survivor, tenacious in the face of social breakdown in Claire Denis's White Material (09); a flamboyant fantasist in Marc Fitoussi's frothy comedy Copacabana (10); the uncomprehending, vulnerable daughter of elderly parents in Michael Haneke's Amour (12); a comically lascivious Mother Superior in Guillaume Nicloux's Diderot adaptation The Nun (13); a bored married woman pondering an affair in a softer comedy, the recent French release Paris Follies (Fitoussi again, 14).

A black photographer's weekend meeting his white girlfriend's parents takes a terrifying turn in this horror hit from Jordan Peele.

Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) takes her family - owned newspaper, the Washington Post, in a risky new direction in «The Post»; Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) meets his white girlfriend's parents only to discover they're a vicious pack of loons in Jordan Peele's «Get Out»; and little Miguel (voiced by young Anthony Gonzalez) desperately tries to pursue music against his abuela's wishes in Pixar's «Coco.»

Overall, though, the best scenes take place between Amy parents and Jeremy's therapist mom (Julie White), the latter showing her progressive point of view by accepting that her son is gay (he isn't), and surprised when she returns home early to find both her son and Amy naked at the poolside.

Q: The film is very much about taking sides: white against black, husband against wife, parent against child, cop against citizen, Man railing against God.

* Higher - income parents, college - educated parents, married parents, and white and Asian parents indicated that they would be willing to take slightly more steps to gain information about a school (such as tour the school, ask friends / neighbors, observe a classroom, etc.) than other parents.

The lineup sounds like the cast of a new «The Avengers» movie: a former CNN anchor, a former White House spokesman, and a legal team that won a landmark case in California installing a «parent trigger,» which allows public school parents to take over their schools by majority vote.

In two of the school districts he visited, white parents tended to be the ones most involved in the parent — teacher associations.They know, for example, about mathematics placement tests in fifth grade that dictated which classes students will take.

For example, in Adelanto, Calif., where a group of parents this year became the first to use a parent trigger, a not - for - profit called Parent Revolution, led by former Clinton White House staffer and former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin, has provided the parents with significant support, including an extensive, multi-week curriculum for parents taking over the sparent trigger, a not - for - profit called Parent Revolution, led by former Clinton White House staffer and former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin, has provided the parents with significant support, including an extensive, multi-week curriculum for parents taking over the sParent Revolution, led by former Clinton White House staffer and former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin, has provided the parents with significant support, including an extensive, multi-week curriculum for parents taking over the school.

Through that time much finger - pointing has taken place with poverty, poor parenting, bad teachers, etc. as the reasons why Black children continue to lag behind their White counterparts.

Although much of the media coverage surrounding parents opting their children out of state tests has focused on white, suburban parents, these families are not alone in taking a stand against tests they see as having no value for their children or schools.

These new demographics have the potential to change the way parents engage with schools, as white middle class parents are more likely to be involved in parent organizations and take on leadership roles [xv].

Higher - income parents, college - educated parents, married parents, and white and Asian parents are slightly more likely to take more steps to gain the information they desire about schools, with higher - income parents indicating that, on average, they would take 5.3 of the eight positive steps to gain information, whereas low - income parents indicated they would take 4.8 steps.

Married, white and Asian parents indicated they would take 4.9 steps, whereas unmarried, nonwhite and non-Asian parents indicated they would take 4.8 steps.

White, the original bill sponsor, said parents need to take school attendance seriously.

Task cards also come in black and white, perfect for a parent Make and Take Night or weekly homework.

«Bottom line: you'll be living in your parents» basement for at least the next 10 years if you take out this amount of debt,» White said.

Her foster parents have showered Eleanor with love, and have even taken her into the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and say she loved being in the wilderness and mountain air.

Parents take turns incubating a single white egg, with the at - sea parent returning after dusk to swap shifts in order to avoid predators such as the western gull or peregrine falcon.

In May of 2016 I visited New York with my parents for the purposes of seeing the Yankees take on my Chicago White Sox in the Bronx.

Fascinated by cinematography, film stills, edits and camera angles since childhood, Duffin recalls a love for black and white films on his parent's television set and the growing appeal of Film Noir: «It seemed to take all of the elements of image - making and stretch them further.

Likely taking design cues from parent company Apple, the BeatsX are available in only four colors: white, black, gray and a muted blue.

Parents trust the pediatric physicians at White Oak Pediatrics because they take the time to get to know all of their patients.

All of the reviews for this school are correct it is a top notch school the assistant principal is the only person that I have met in this school who I don't care for but the principal Carrol Wicker White is superb she takes as much time as necessary to speak and meet with parents and addresses their concerns.The teacher our son had this year is exceptional she is caring compassionate and very smart and handles challenges very well.Parents are very involved and kids are well taken care of and happy.We want to move to Carroll isd for high school but we will not leave this elementary school until our son finishes fourth grade because as great as the schools are in Carroll the elementary schools can not compare to this one this school truly is remarkable.