Sentences with phrase «acts upon the children»

Practical guidelines explicitly saying that any priest found to have performed se - xual acts upon children or those protecting him will be defrocked immediately and turned into the police.

The English teacher had been charged with 20 counts of lewd acts upon a child, but prosecutors added eight more...

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

Not exact matches

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

And if we see the roots of the riots in the effect upon parents of the 1989 Children Act, and the roots of such legislation in the western episcopal response to the 1968 Humanae Vitae, so we would place the roots of that neo-protestant silence in the success of the Reformation.

No matter what I said, Mark was going to keep going to groups like this one and telling thousands upon thousands of Christians that being gay was caused by faulty parenting, that it only led to misery, and that anyone who wanted to become straight could... And they would pass those beliefs on to their children and other Christians, who would act upon that misinformation whenever they encountered gay people.»

By decimating the British forces with a tornado your God basically acted like a parent who, upon seeing two of his children fighting, decided to drop kick one in order to stop the brawl.

In this fun activity, your child will be asked to listen for and act upon a super word.

705 § 305/10.3 amends the Jury Act; provides that any mother nursing her child shall, upon her request, be excused from jury duty.

It goes on to say that «the Department has received concerns from two parents surrounding the treatment of their mixed - race child at a Steiner school, including racist abuse by other pupils which the school allegedly failed to act upon despite repeated complaints, and the use of racial epithets by teachers.

«Whether as public servants, parents or concerned citizens, it is incumbent upon all of us to act immediately when a child is in danger,» Cuomo said.

A Pearl River couple who suffered the unspeakable pain of losing a child, quietly took it upon themselves to perform an act of kindness that will brighten Christmas Day for youngsters they will likely never meet.

Quoting another political philosopher, John Stuart Mill, Banfield notes that no society can reasonably expect a liberated individual to naturally «accept and act upon certain indispensable social rules,» and so society must transmit the wisdom and authority of «received opinion» to its young lest they remain mere children.

«The significance [of the establishment of the Office of the Children's eSafety Commissioner] is that this is a recognition that we need to deal specifically with the issue of cyberbullying and the Act clearly gives us powers in relation to cyberbullying, but also equally importantly the Office carries on and builds upon the good work that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) was doing in its Cybersmart education programs.

Beyond just the transmission of information, however, children act upon the knowledge they have gained.

Defenders of the status quo are able to effectively attack certain reforms as «anti-public education» because Americans believe that the public has a legitimate responsibility to ensure that all children receive an adequate education... The divisions emerge when we consider how to act upon these shared purposes.

Last year, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, supplanting No Child Left Behind and placing responsibility for public school improvement squarely upon each of the 50 states.

However, it is a rare education reporter, teacher who receives a layoff notice (however unlikely to be acted upon), or parent who was expecting to have the highly regarded but layoff - vulnerable Ms. Jones for her 3rd - grade child in the fall, who sees the matter in historical perspective or with objectivity.

When U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings leaves office along with her Cabinet colleagues, President George W. Bush surely will heap praise upon his good friend and adviser who oversaw his prized domestic accomplishment: the No Child Left Behind Act.

Acting upon the superintendent's recommendation, the SRC decided that the six schools should come under direct district control once again because they had not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), as required by No Child Left Behind.

If our schools understood and acted upon the clear evidence that domain - specific content knowledge is foundational to literacy, reading instruction might look very different in our children's classrooms.

Once upon a time (OK, it was 2007), we D.C. policy wonks were gearing up for a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind), and all the buzz was about the new federal requirements that would be added.

Well informed families should continue to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the undead portions of No Child Left Behind that persist in ESSA — including most especially the required publication of results from annual tests in two subjects only, which information middle - brow families consume and act upon, leaving the less tuned in behind to wonder about why their neighbourhoods steadily decline — ... Read More

Due to the requirement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that each state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity Plan.

It is time for Common Core supporters and the school reform movement as a whole to embrace — and build upon — the strong accountability measures exemplified by the No Child Left Behind Act's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions.

The key element was that teachers and administrators recognized the child's unique learning needs, acted upon those needs and encouraged curriculum experiments that were novel.

As President of the Animal Rescue League of Boston from 1901 to 1929, Anna Harris Smith acted upon a wide - range of animal welfare and humane issues of the time, such as abandonment of pets, work horse abuses, inhumane livestock transport methods, and the humane education of children.

As President of ARL from 1901 to 1929, Anna Harris Smith acted upon a wide - range of animal welfare and humane issues of the time, such as abandonment of pets, work horse abuse, inhumane livestock transport methods, and the humane education of children.

In the event that a child starts to bolt, the dog's responsibility is to sit / stay upon command from the parent, and act as an anchor, preventing the child from running away.

We found the hotel staff were very good and attentive Amanda at reception was extremely helpful the downside to our holiday were the school children staying overnight until complaints were made and acted upon also noisy and inconsiderate guests in the room above spoiled our nights sleep

If we don't act now, climate change will rapidly alter the lands and waters we all depend upon for survival, leaving our children and grandchildren with a very different world.

720 ILCS 11 - 20.1 (b)(1) states that an affirmative defense may be asserted if a defendant «reasonably believed, under all of the circumstances, that the child was 18 years of age or older... prior to the act or acts giving rise to [the] prosecution... he or she took some affirmative action or made a bona fide inquiry designed to ascertain whether the child was 18 years of age or older... and his or her reliance upon the information so obtained was clearly reasonable.»

The hospital was not able to show that there was no evidence upon which a trial judge, acting properly could have found causation established on the balance of probability, so the case was sent back for a new trial, only on the issue of whether the nurses» negligence was a cause of the child's injury.

Section 24 (5) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 — «where (a) an application for the revocation of a placement order has been made and has not been disposed of, and (b) the child is not placed for adoption by the authority, the child may not without the court's leave be placed for adoption under the order» — applies only where a substantive application for the revocation of a placement order has been made, ie the applicant, having got over the leave hurdle, is making a substantive application which, consequent upon the grant of leave, would be likely to have been perceived as having a real prospect of success.

It is important to note however that any «settlement of property» made under this Act places an obligation upon the paying parent to provide a home for the child and the parent carer until the child is 18 or ceases full time secondary education (although the parties can agree between them to extend the period) after which the property then reverts back into the ownership of the paying parent.

The demonstrated capacity of each parent to determine, consider, and act upon the needs of the child as opposed to the needs or desires of the parent;

She argues that this is in the best interests of the children relying upon Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 31 (4).

This suspension is based upon an Action Transmittal dated June 18, 2012 from the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement to all state agencies administering child support enforcement plans under Title IV - D of the Social SecurityChild Support Enforcement to all state agencies administering child support enforcement plans under Title IV - D of the Social Securitychild support enforcement plans under Title IV - D of the Social Security Act.

This, however, had no immediate impact upon Southwark's provision of accommodation because the support restrictions imposed upon failed asylum seekers by Sch 3 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (NIAA 2002) do not apply to children.

Eleanor played a significant role, through legal research, and drafting, in respect of responding to an application for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal in Seddon v Oldham Council [2015] EWHC 2609 (Fam): a Human Rights Act claim in which Mr Justice Peter Jackson declared that family life between a birth mother and an adopted child is terminated upon the making of an adoption order.

Section 41 of the Children's Law Reform Act provides that upon application by any person in whose favour an Order for the custody of or access to a child has been made by an extra-provincial tribunal, a court shall recognize the order unless the case meets a particular exception.

Parents who refuse to «act right» at exchanges, during periods of possession, or upon return of the child, endanger their own rights.

When one parent is paying child support, the support ends upon the child's emancipation, which is when the child can legally act as an adult.

«The National Family Violence Survey upon which Straus bases his major conclusions about the relative rates of violence by partners and against children rely solely on self - reported acts of force by adults, do not determine whether these acts actually occurred, employ a definition of child abuse that bears little or no relation to the definitions used in the child welfare field or by the courts, and take no account of actual consequences, such as injury.

We will continue to build upon the mixed - delivery model outlined in grant and pursue other funding avenues for providing high - quality preschool to underserved children in Oregon,» said Megan Irwin, Acting Early Learning System Director.

It gives examples of how the Act has been relied upon in child welfare and legal proceedings to ensure fair process and to prevent unnecessary interference or an abuse of power by the state into the family life of vulnerable children and families.

1 The authorities of the Contracting State of the child's habitual residence, or of the Contracting State where a measure of protection has been taken, may deliver to the person having parental responsibility or to the person entrusted with protection of the child's person or property, at his or her request, a certificate indicating the capacity in which that person is entitled to act and the powers conferred upon him or her.

42 U.S. Code § 13001a (7) the term «multidisciplinary response to child abuse» means a response to child abuse that is based on mutually agreed upon procedures among the community agencies and professionals involved in the intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that best meets the needs of child victims and their nonoffending family members; (8) the term «nonoffending family member» means a member of the family of a victim of child abuse other than a member who has been convicted or accused of committing an act of child abuse; and (Pub.