Sentences with phrase «as high school kids»

The state of Texas created adult driver education so that grown adults don't have to meet the same requirements as high school kids.

The 30 students who enrolled into the two - and three - year programe this year share the same compound as high school kids.

There is no cartoon evil or sex comedy foolishness driving any of the characters, and even the meanest mean girl and the bro - est sex - obsessed bro dude have a couple moments that paint them as real people, or at least as real as high school kids can be.

It embraces the stupidity of its concept too, by constantly acknowledging that Hill and Tatum are way too old to be posing as high school kids, or by having Ice Cube play the stereotypical black police captain from every 80s movie ever, and then outright acknowledging that.

I think it comes from this habit I picked up in the»80s as a high school kid.

MINNEAPOLIS --- As a high school kid he was part of the «5 O'Clock Crew» in his Gainesville, Fla., gym.

Both punk and evolution provided me with a purpose as a high school kid.

Love, Simon Nick Robinson stars as a high school kid wrestling with coming out.

You play as a high school kid named Keisuke (or whatever you'd prefer) who's accused of being a hacker when his EDEN account is stolen.

Not exact matches

Three years before, as a 16 - year - old high school kid, Dan Price saw bar owners being gouged by big financial firms every time they swiped a patron's credit card.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

As we all remember from our younger years, high school can be pretty brutal on less popular kids.

But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

Kenney hasn't chosen thus far to do that, and in his only statement raised the straw man that this gay - straight alliance legislation could affect kids as young as five — though the clubs are essentially for junior high and high schools, not kindergarteners in any context anybody imagines.

As any attentive high school kid will remind you, majority governments are achieved by winning 155 of the nation's 308 ridings.

If you're organized, knowledgeable about the higher education process, and enjoy working with adolescents and their parents, consider starting a side business as an independent college application consultant to help more smart, ambitious, and qualified kids get into the schools of their dreams.

I live in a blue state and we had kids that came in to high school before classes started every day to meet up as a group for bible study.

I went to Mass every week as a kid and attended a Jesuit high school and college.

Regardless of our homes — our experiences in high school or college or as a kid — all of us have pasts filled with mistakes and hurt, seasons of pain, friendships lost, fights unresolved, maybe even regret.

Everyone makes their own decision at some point, so as much as I love Bill Nye, I disagree with him on this topic, as parents should teach their children however they want and in high school the kids will make their own choices.

The high - tech parents from Silicon Valley are now sending their kids to a school that sells itself as computer - free.

But anyone who reads it as some proclamation that all regulation should fall away should take a trip to their high school english class and let the kids there teach you something...

One of the resons I thought there would be a higher percentage of atheisim is that evolution is being taught as fact in schools, but apparently most of the kids are not buying it, they just answer the questions on exams for the best grades.

I am mindful of that weekend now because I have twins who are high school seniors, and I realize that the clock is counting down to the weekend next year when my wife and I will drop off our kids and make that long drive home as empty - nesters.

The son of Belarusian immigrants, Dlagnev clashed with his family as a kid and became a Christian in high school.

As a local business, «We support local kids» high school [activities],» he says, noting that this includes agricultural groups, sports teams and drill teams to name a few that compete with other schools.

I prepared this high protein chocolate smoothie bowl as an after school snack on Friday and my kids couldn't get enough of it.

In our Tongan Culture, we are so closely connected by a mutual relative / friend as this is what a high school football game feels like to me — we all come together to support our kids and I enjoy every minute of it.

The NCAA tournament is not won on a temporary court built in a football stadium in March but in sweaty gyms where kids who know Michael Jordan only as a small - market team owner work through the tropes of basketball success — hardship, effort, tricked - out Escalades — and adults hang on the decisions of high school juniors.

But when he handed out footballs in European high schools, he watched in horror as kids played soccer with them.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

Back in the 1950s, Ellison's high school team was struggling and, as the story goes, he drove by a park and saw kids running plays in unusual formations.

If the Tigers truly rate Madrigal or anyone else as a comparable talent, then go for it, but don't lose out on the top talent because you are tired of drafting pitchers, or because you fall in love with the «potential» of some high school kid who may never learn to hit in pro ball.

If you're playing first base in high school, that means you're probably not as good of an athlete as the kids playing center, short, and catcher.

Posada was an all - star shortstop at Alejandrino High School in San Juan, and he has spoken about how even if his father wasn't a pro scout, baseball would have been impossible to escape as a kid.

The paradox of team golf creates a challenge for talented players as they make their way through high school and college as the best kids on the course are trained to strive to better their games for their own advancement.

With high school football becoming so much popular as you can see high school players are going to different schools like NFL free agency, what Milpitas has built are that these kids that play for the Trojans have been playing together for 8 years since their pop warner days together.

Floyd played hundreds of rounds on the Enlisted Men's Course at Fort Bragg as a kid, often with soldiers, went to a military boarding school for two years in high school and served in the Army reserves.

Two and a half years ago, as a high school senior, Moss stomped a kid in a fight, pleaded guilty to two counts of battery and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year's probation.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familySchool: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

Well, maybe not all those drastic moves but what you're about to read will probably make you a little scared for the kind of social climate our kids will face as they enter high school.

While we know that not every camp can engage in a large evaluation process, we hope that our findings will be useful to others and inspire reflection about how camps can excel as high quality learning environments where kids can practice many of the essential skills they need for school, job, and relationship success.

In addition, the MomsRising members have helped get every child in elementary, middle school and high school access to healthier foods in school, as well as get junk food marketing out of the schools so that kids have healthier food options while they are in school.

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

And you raise a good point about open campuses — once kids are in high school, if they have transportation and funds, there's nothing to keep them from eating fast food every day, just as you say.

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

E.g., I was surprised to learn that many high schools here in Houston have a single lunch hour for thousands of kids and this is one reason schools are turning a blind eye to the illegal junk food sold on campus as fundraisers.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)