Sentences with phrase «because high school starts»

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«I got into track because both my sisters did it in high school right around the time I started track,» Clancy said.

When I started, i think most people (including myself) got automatically accepted to A&M because they were in the top 10 % of their high school class.

Warrick Dunn's high school coach reportedly said about Dunn «You couldn't catch him in a phone booth», and that phrase seemed to stick around because the coaches at FSU started saying it too.

Yes, swimming at the highest levels is an individual sport, and as athletes start to separate themselves from the pack, it makes complete sense to swim the events that a) you enjoy the most (because in the long run you'll most likely do better at them), and b) suit your skills — but in case you haven't noticed, you're in high school.

Back when my son was just starting out his soccer career (I use the word, career, because now's he's a junior in high school and plays for the varsity soccer team... and wants to play soccer in college), parents brought oranges for the kids to nibble on at halftime.

He was 3 or 4 when he started talking about Hannah Montana and High School Musical because one of his classmates (the most trashily dressed preschool girl I've seen in real life) was always talking about them.

Park District officials originally looked into constructing a temporary skating facility on a parking lot at the area high schools, but backed away from the idea because the season would be cut short when school starts up again at the end of the summer.

The fire started and first spread from the area of large rock outcropping off of Greenbush Road, known as «TZ Rock» because of its status as a favorite hang out spot for generations of students from nearby Tappan Zee High School.

Tyra Nicolay, a 16 - year - old from New Mexico also spoke at the briefing, saying that she started using e-cigarettes in her first year of high school because she liked the flavour.

As soon as you start starving yourself like a high school teenage girl before prom, your body is going to try to preserve as much fat and calories as it can because it switches into conservation mode.

I never joined the Track team in High School because I was a baseball player, but Grip Strength is very important for Shotput, Javelin, Discus, Pole Vault, and even the Sprinters in the starting blocks.

Although I had been accepted to start a state university following high school, I chose to join the military because I wanted real world experience in a job field (which was journalism and photography), and I wanted a way to travel, broaden my horizons, and experience life outside of my comfort zone.

The difference between the 75 % and 56 % figure is largely immaterial because our «intention - to - treat» analysis exclusively measures the effect of starting high school in the voucher program on future levels of educational attainment regardless of how long you stayed in the program.

They chose the ninth grade as a place to start because it is the start of high school, and they could roll up or down into the other grade levels from there.

It's difficult to know exactly how this disconnect between teenagers» optimal sleep times and school schedules affects their classroom performance because school districts that start high schools later might be better - resourced or otherwise support students better than do those that start high schools earlier in the day.

Because magnet schools start earlier and enroll students who tend to have higher test scores, I exclude magnet schools from my main analysis.

High school dropouts almost always quit school because of a combination of risk factors, many of which are present before the student starts kindergarten, an analysis of data from 44 dropout trend studies concludes.

Pension wealth is even more backloaded for school leaders because their salaries are higher than teachers and pension formulas only take into account ending rather than starting salaries.

Because Denver's two largest and most successful charter networks, DSST and STRIVE Prep, started with high schools and middle schools, respectively, the city's charters are unusually concentrated at the secondary level.

I know because in 2006, the same year we published that study, we started a charter high school serving African American children on the south side of Chicago.

Instead she claims that the similar Milwaukee finding of higher educational attainment from vouchers is questionable because «75 % of the students who started in a voucher school left before graduation.»

Some high schools have postponed their start times because research shows that adolescents are naturally groggy in the morning, and alert later in the day.

Glenn Davis, 26, who teaches 6th - grade math at KIPP LEAD in Gary, Indiana, says he'll apply to the Fisher Fellowship program in two years, because he hopes to start a high school for his current students.

«The research would suggest that there are a number of parents who start off with high aspirations for their children but gradually disengage, partly because the schools don't talk a language they understand, because they have poor experiences themselves with school and they find them frightening places to go to...»

Because AAP recommends school start times of 8:30 a.m. or later for both middle schools and high schools, the analyses in this report include public middle schools, high schools, and schools with combined grades.

Because of Glenn, we started the first public Montessori school in the nation, the first arts magnet going from elementary through high school, and the first foreign language immersion magnets beginning in the primary grades.

Because the district utilizes a three - tiered busing system, committee member Todd Hauber, who also serves as the district's business administrator, indicated the committee is looking at starting either the elementary schools or Ecker Hill Middle School before the high sSchool before the high schoolschool.

This is particularly troubling because in Minnesota, a significant portion of new teachers start their careers in high - needs schools serving low - income students and students of color.

Because initial funding estimates were based on enrollment at the schools before state takeover, the turnaround operators started last year with one of the highest per - pupil funding amounts in the state.

That's because high school students start their first year learning in the forest, then the second on the waters of Puget Sound.

That's important because national data show high school graduates who start college right away are more likely to complete.

The number was so high because inner - city schools like ours tend to have a disproportionate share of teachers just starting their careers, and in last year's layoffs, the most recently hired were the first to receive pink slips.

The collaboration works well because of well - established relationships between the university and the community, starting with their collaboration in 1992 to expand Tech Prep programming to area high school students.

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

Here's the start of my new column at NJ Spotlight Last month, New Jersey's new acting Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet described the state's sixth year in a row of increased high school graduation rates — now 90.5 percent — as «exciting,» because it «demonstrates we are on a path toward closing our achievement gaps and achieving excellent and equitable educational opportunities for our children.»

«It's confusing because I go from this learning process to this learning process to that learning process and it's just ridiculous how some teachers leave and we have to start all over and learn something new,» Muskegon Heights High School senior Tony Harris said, «It's just, it's crazy.»

To address the dropout crisis that condemns so many futures, we'll intervene much earlier in a child's education - because the forces that lead a high school student to drop out start well before the ninth grade.

MNPS announced late last week that Overton High School would start two days late because construction was not completed at the sSchool would start two days late because construction was not completed at the schoolschool.

Well, he needs to apologize to about 125,000 Chicago Public School students who have been flunked because of the high - stakes testing policy he started in 1996 as CPS CEO.

I started working on cars when i was 15 my first job in high school was doing oil changes, tranny services and tune ups, brake jobs for $ 3.65 an hour after school and bring home 50 bucks a week because McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy's wouldn't hire me because I had a bad attitude... But the Auto shops loved me and at 18 I joined the service to work on Helicopter Turbines... My brother got his A&P license and now owns his own Shop and when they ask for his ASE cert he points to his A&P and says cars are just toys If the government says I can fix planes then cars don't mean shit.

A high school - aged rural respondent, for instance, wrote that since she started borrowing e-books, «I tend to go to the physical branch less often because if I can borrow a book in digital format I can start reading it faster.»

As a senior in high school, soon to leave for college, I and everyone around me was told to not worry about student loans because we would just get a job after college and be able to start paying it back.

Because the drop - out rate from many high - schools across the country has remained high, local and nationwide programs that help students to complete their education and start reading more books are more than welcomed.

Consider You may pay more for your total Medical School Loan cost because a fixed interest rate is usually higher than a starting variable interest rate.

I'm 18 years old just graduated high school and I feel like college is just a waste of time because I wan na start making money now!

The key thing is to start sooner versus later because if you think the cost of education is high now... just wait until your future high school junior / senior starts looking at their college options years from now.

You must start in the last year of high school because the application typically has a deadline in March or April of the year financial aid will be needed.

Consider You may pay more for your total Dental School Loan cost because a fixed interest rate is usually higher than a starting variable interest rate.

Since over 2/3 of Chileans live in urban areas, the capital, Santiago, might be your best bet for getting started, because of the high concentration of English language schools in this area.

That may have been partly because of the steady accumulation of knowledge, and also because the public in wealthy countries had become better educated (a larger fraction of young people was now going to college than had gone to high school at the start of the century).