Sentences with phrase «at keeping children in school»

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Be pre ¬ pared, in the event that there are school closures, to allow workers flexible schedules or other accommodations so they can mind their children and keep them safe at home.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February has reignited the debate about how to keep children safe from a future attack, with President Trump and gun rights activists saying the best solution is to let teachers carry guns.

According to details reported by CNN affiliate GEO news, police conducted the raid at the Islamic school in SohrabGoth - a suburb of Gadap in Karachi - after sources told Gadap police officers of children kept in an underground dungeon.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

For about a century now, no other issue in American Jewish life has evoked as much emotion and energy at the local level as has the struggle to keep religion out of their children's schools.

In a paper presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in Houston, Dr. Coddington reported that he had elicited confidential family information from more than 700 New Orleans high school players last year while their coaches kept detailed injury recordIn a paper presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in Houston, Dr. Coddington reported that he had elicited confidential family information from more than 700 New Orleans high school players last year while their coaches kept detailed injury recordin Houston, Dr. Coddington reported that he had elicited confidential family information from more than 700 New Orleans high school players last year while their coaches kept detailed injury records.

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.

As you read, keep in mind that there are true believers arguing on both sides of the issue, and that the best school is the one that is a good match for a particular child at a particular time in his or her life.

Keep these in mind the next time you sit down with your child to review their progress at school.

At home, it's important to keep up a dialogue with your child about how she's being treated at school, and make sure she feels comfortable confiding in yoAt home, it's important to keep up a dialogue with your child about how she's being treated at school, and make sure she feels comfortable confiding in yoat school, and make sure she feels comfortable confiding in you.

After dinner pack school lunch - sized servings in appropriate containers that will keep food at a safe temperature from the time your child leaves for school until they are ready to eat lunch.

Maintaining good communication with your child and keeping up with what's going on in her life are key factors in spotting any signs of potential problems at school, including bullying.

Keep in mind that children mature at different ages, and you should be less strict with a 13 - year - old than with a 17 - or 18 - year - old who can't quite seem to be ready early enough to arrive at school before the bell.

In early grade school, children tend to give up the concept of an imaginary friend, or at least keep it in their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friendsIn early grade school, children tend to give up the concept of an imaginary friend, or at least keep it in their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friendsin their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friends).

In Colorado, Nicole was the driving force to get Senate Bill 09 - 226 introduced and passed into law requiring all school districts to have a policy to keep food allergic children safe at school.

He was a key person in the passage of SB 09 - 226, a law in Colorado requiring all school districts to have a policy to keep food allergic children safe at school, and helped flipped senators and representatives from a «no» to a «yes» vote through his testimony.

Ten tips for keeping your school - age child happy in the kitchen instead of staring at the television or computer screen.

She worked for years as a preschool teacher in the public school system until she had her 3rd child, and now she is a stay at home mother who keeps busy with her four children, exploring all of the nooks and crannies of their surroundings.

While encouraging your child to complete her assignments or do some additional reading, keep in mind that she has already had a lengthy and perhaps tiring day of learning at school and needs some free time.

If your child is being harassed or threatened at school, you must enlist the help of the teacher and principal in keeping your child safe.

Keep in mind that these totals are just for food eaten at school, and that a child is likely to consume even more sodium over the course of a day from other sources.

«The board member who spoke such disgusting words presents a danger to the children at Buffalo Public Schools and I will keep saying that in the clearest, loudest voice possible until he is removed from this board,» said Rachel Dominquez, concerned parent.

Driven by anger at education reforms included in this year's state budget, there's a movement afoot in Albany to encourage parents to keep their children home from school, rather than sit for state tests.

However, Dr Anthony Seldon, headaster at Wellington College, believes that many parents will fight to keep their children in these schools.

She says sometimes an interest in drawing or playing a musical instrument is all that keeps an at - risk child in school.

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

There are even correlations between how clean water in a community keeps issues like trafficking and child exploitation down because children aren't left at home by themselves sick or walking long distances by themselves to fetch water — they are in a school, learning and growing and dreaming about a thriving future.

Let's also keep our soldiers in our country where they can help defend OUR borders as well as help out at schools to protect our school children.

This hyperactive adventure may keep children giggling at the sheer chaos on screen, but it'll wear out older viewers looking for something that actually holds the attention.Toe Thompson (Bennett) is a lonely kid in school,...

Divided into three sections, the story starts in 1978, in a posh boarding school in the English countryside where children are kept obedient, docile and more or less unaware of what's expected of them, or at least unwilling to rebel against their fate.

Fall parent conferences at my 7 - 8 grade middle school were completed, and a number parents had asked to be kept in the loop regarding learning issues that concerned their children.

«Few educators or philosophers of education would argue that schools» sole purpose is to keep children safe,» writes Sadowski, a faculty member in education at Bard University.

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In a similar incident in Sacramento, Calif., a group of parents at one of the city's schools also kept their children home last week because a 4 - year - old child with a herpes - related virus was admitted to a special - education class in the schooIn a similar incident in Sacramento, Calif., a group of parents at one of the city's schools also kept their children home last week because a 4 - year - old child with a herpes - related virus was admitted to a special - education class in the schooin Sacramento, Calif., a group of parents at one of the city's schools also kept their children home last week because a 4 - year - old child with a herpes - related virus was admitted to a special - education class in the schooin the school.

George Charles, spokesperson for www.VoucherCodesPro.co.uk <http://www.VoucherCodesPro.co.uk >, made the following comments: «Whilst schools are having to keep up with the times, in which technology plays a key role, it's not fair to expect parents to be able to afford a computer, a printer and more in order for their children to be able to succeed at school.

Expecting children to keep a large number of devices charged and ready - for - use can of course be a tedious task, which is why many schools now install charging carts in their classrooms, for up to 40 tablets at one time.

The MHBA staff expressed concern about being able to keep their students focused on college when the children are dealing with daily social pressures at school or are faced with trauma in their lives.

That's why we're setting out six staples of good food at school that will keep these figures rising: giving children enough time for lunch, decent dining rooms, freshly cooked food, affordable prices, stay on site policies and cooking in the curriculum.

After the breakfast club the whole of Harmondsworth Primary school took part in an assembly with Tanni Grey ‑ Thompson, who talked to the children about the importance of being active at a young age, why she believes keeping active is an important part of her life and the benefits it can have throughout everyone's lives.

In keeping with the middle school philosophy of each child being known well by at least one adult, Gilmore had each teacher put his or her name next to the name of a child he or she knew well.

It also includes heroes, of course — Mrs. Henry, Ruby's first grade teacher; the Foremans and Gabrielles, who endured threats and taunts for keeping their children in school; U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright, who continuously blocked the efforts of the segregationists; and the neighbors who stood guard over the Bridges» house at night.

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's public schools the green light to keep «under God» in the Pledge of Allegiance — at least for now — by holding that a California father lacked the legal standing to challenge a California school district's policy of leading children in the pledge.

But fifth - graders at the Liberation College Preparatory School and Spirit College Prep, new schools in Houston, declined in both reading and math achievement in their first year, based on standardized tests administered by KIPP to keep track of each school's and each child's proSchool and Spirit College Prep, new schools in Houston, declined in both reading and math achievement in their first year, based on standardized tests administered by KIPP to keep track of each school's and each child's proschool's and each child's progress.

By embracing the tests — which are designed to measure students» knowledge of the more rigorous standards — college officials are at odds with many parents who have protested their use in schools and kept their children out of the exams.

Our children have improved, to some extent, in their performances on such tests, but at significant costs to almost every other aspect of school operations and at a pace that is failing to have us keep up with the international competition that our children will increasingly face.

Wall Street Journal commentary by Meir Statman, Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, and Linda Herman, author of the book «Parents to the End: How Baby Boomers Can Parent for Peace of Mind, Foster Responsibility in Their Adult Children, and Keep Their Hard - Earned Money»

Thousands of parents in England plan to keep their children off school for a day next week in protest at tough new national tests, campaigners say.

• When this Canadian elementary school had to close after funding cuts, a local ice cream shop stepped in and offered $ 2 million in Canadian dollars to keep children at their neighborhood school.

Cleveland County Schools» Exceptional Children Director Nellie Aspel, who is charged with managing all of the moving parts related to the education of her school district's special needs students, has had to stretch a slim budget in ways that keep her up at night.