Sentences with phrase «as girls in school»

We have also achieved gender parity, which means that we have as many boys as girls in school.

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Her outreach ranges from teaching girls in elementary school how to code, to motivational talks on how to have impact as a junior in a giant company, to enforcing the message that you don't need to choose between your passions.

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Here I was, standing two feet taller than my elementary - aged girls as they schooled me in how to take a breath, set aside work conflicts, and stay in the moment.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

Martin Wrigley was given a «prohibition order» over inappropriate treatment towards the girl - known as «Pupil A» - at Chatburn CofE School in Clitheroe.

One day, a girl named Jessica made the connection between herself and a work of literature that most of us are fortunate enough to make in comfortable circumstances, as I did, say, with the novels of Charlotte Brontë in high school.

But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know that girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are being attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist.

The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

It was Sunday school teachers who said that girls who had sex before marriage were «broken,» that no self - respecting Christian man would ever want them after that, and it was the Christian books and conferences that consistently portrayed good Christian girls as helpless princesses in need of rescue.

As one high school girl put it, after she had found this life style in a growth group led by her minister, «I'm really turned on to nature, books, music, and most all, people!

The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.

Sex education is currently taught in Guatemala schools but campaigners say it is often incomplete or irrelevant, as less than half the girls in Guatemala attend secondary schools.

Both my pastor and my best girl friend in high school told me that in Genesis — when Isaac chose Jacob as his favored son and commanded him not to marry a Canaanite woman — we see evidence of God's desire to protect a certain racial order.

In fact, I was even known as «Bible Girl» at my public high school!

I met a woman who, as a little girl, watched a cross burn in her front yard and endured teachers at her new school shouting racial slurs at her because the community around her was angry about integration.

The trouble began even before Ketcham entered the mission field in 1961; his behavior was sexually inappropriate as early as high school, when he admitted to «heavy petting» with an unknown number of girls, according to the Pii report.

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

It is also a fear of being perceived as being homosexual, especially among men.5 The fear of being perceived as gay usually begins in elementary school when «girl,» «sissy,» or «fag» are the worst put - downs a boy can hear.

As she tells it, it was her grandmother's «spiritual obsession» and frightening talk of hell that drove her away from the church as a girl: «By the time I was in high school I grew contemptuous of religion and the people I knew who practiced it, although I took great pains to hide this development from Grandmother..As she tells it, it was her grandmother's «spiritual obsession» and frightening talk of hell that drove her away from the church as a girl: «By the time I was in high school I grew contemptuous of religion and the people I knew who practiced it, although I took great pains to hide this development from Grandmother..as a girl: «By the time I was in high school I grew contemptuous of religion and the people I knew who practiced it, although I took great pains to hide this development from Grandmother....

My small group leaders and then other leaders in the church I grew up going to (which was as relaxed in their preaching as you can find (Presbyterian)-RRB- would confirms this to other high school guys and girls my age that unless he chose to believe in Jesus as the Son of God by the time he died on his deathbed he wouldn't join my Mom and sisters and I in heaven.

We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed, maimed and killed» and when not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

They put her in the school, where the little girls cherished her, and cut pieces out of her clothes [for relics] as if she were already a saint, but where she was too absorbed inwardly to pay the necessary attention.

Boys in the study were somewhat more likely to report this behavior than girls; those who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual were three times more likely to report this behavior; those who were bullied at school were four to five times more likely, and those bullied online (by others) were seven to twelve times more likely.

As a young Melbourne school girl studying French, I always dreamed of going to Paris and indulging in an authentic pain au chocolate and my all time favourite food, crêpes: — RRB -.

In high school, I was one of those girls some girls love to hate — I could eat as much as I wanted whenever I wanted and never gain an ounce.

My girls will have to try it in the school as they are already in bed.

I felt like the most special little girl in the world as the school office called me up to receive my Valentine's Day bouquet of flowers, balloons, and the stuffed animal that he always had sent for me.

Michelle turns away and grinds her teeth — how could this be happening to the girl who won the Greg Tatum Award in eighth grade as her school's most Christlike child?

It was opened in 2005 — funded by the actress and special envoy to the UNHCR — as a boarding school for bright or at - risk girls.

Sirs: As a high school girls» physical education teacher, I was most distressed to see your recognition of Terri Phillips» achievement in the July 5 FACES IN THE CROWin the July 5 FACES IN THE CROWIN THE CROWD.

Nadine is currently in her eighth year as the head girls» basketball coach at her alma mater St. Patrick — St. Vincent High School in Vallejo, CA with an overall coaching record of 122 - 100.

Splash now lives in the exurbs of the Northeast, but in his day as a high school swimmer he was the fastest 50 - yard freestyler in the state of Wisconsin and the fourth fastest high school swimmer in that event in the U.S. Lean, swart and crew cut in those years, Splash affected a sullen mien that he thought would score points with the girls, but at heart he was a happy romantic.

«I could see Kelbe's wife — I'd known her as Kathleen Berger in high school — up in the stands and these other girls just beneath her.

Since 2000 four state high school athletic associations — in California, Florida, Georgia and Michigan — have sanctioned lacrosse for boys and girls, and the rosters of college powers such as Duke, Navy and Syracuse feature players from Dallas, Denver and San Diego.

-- went to a school in southwest England where football was considered Not For Girls, and as such grew up having had precisely one hour of coaching in the national game.

She earned a full - ride scholarship to Duke, spent her summer playing for USA Basketball in the 17U World Championships, and closed her high school career as a McDonald's All - American — just the second ever to come out of the Bay Area since the girls game began in 2002.

From Division II the Rocklin High School boys are still in the running and Del Oro High School girls as well.

When Parker dunked in a game in December 2001 as a 15 - year - old Naperville Central High sophomore, becoming the first girl in Illinois and only the second in the nation to do so in a high school game, TV cameras and news reporters gathered in her driveway the next morning.

Spouse stayed home in early years raising 4 girls and i was involved in everything from school plays to family functions as she made it happen.

Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.&School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.&school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»

Things have been a bit hectic in the Mum's the Word house since Sausage went back to school; first, the girls were poorly (tonsilitis), then I was poorly (gall bladder) and then the car decided to go kaput, leaving us unable to make regular trips to the shops, so we were living on what we had in the cupboards and as a result, my slow cookers have been rather neglected!

I can remember as a child having a close friend with a mom who was constantly getting involved in our petty elementary school girl problems.

The two most recent studies of concussion rates among high school athletes (1,2) report concussion rates in girl's lacrosse essentially tied with girl's soccer for the highest among girl's sports, nearly as high as the concussion rate in boy's lacrosse (not statistically different in terms of rates), and almost double the rate of the girl's sport with the next highest concussion rate (basketball).

Our lives are so busy now that the girls are in school — there's school, homework, activities, playdates, plus computers, iPods, and other technology distractions... So it's wonderful to take Sundays off to go slowly, enjoy the outdoors, and spend time as a family, with few interruptions.