Sentences with phrase «by a classmate at»

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

And republicans, in addition, are concerned about many other issues: the discrimination faced by the LGBT community, consumers at the mercy of retailers or companies, Internet users at the mercy of providers or regulatory states, children at the mercy of their parents or teachers, the elder at the mercy of younger disrespectful citizens, the kid being bullied by a classmate at school, the prisoner abused by his jail mates or by the prison authorities, etc..

Carrie (1976): Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Gun violence was fresh for some in the DC crowd: Ayanne Johnson of Great Mills High School in Maryland held a sign declaring, «I March for Jaelynn,» honoring Jaelynn Willey, who died Thursday two days after being shot by a classmate at the school.

Not exact matches

MIT's Ashley Sager, 32, and Purdue's Stacey Mueller, 47, were celebrated by their classmates for their high GPAs and willingness to coach their peers (at seemingly any hour).

Nargis Sakhibova, who hopes to launch a tech startup after graduation, was immediately won over by the potential classmates she met at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

(CNN) For years before Nikolas Cruz gunned down classmates and teachers at his former high school, his mother had repeatedly called police to the home to help deal with his violent outbursts, threats and self - destructive behavior, according to police documents obtained by CNN on Friday.

Probably, if you don't mind your kid being ridiculed by all of her or his classmates and nobody sitting anywhere near you at the next PTA meeting.

Stephen's early years at Clongowes are marked by the physical and emotional torment of his classmates and several of the priests; those days away from home are hard for the reader to bear.

It can be stated as reported by my early classmates at Minnesota or in the simple postulate: «Humans communicate verbally.»

The student at University of California, Merced who last year stabbed four classmates now appears to have been inspired by ISIS.

This past summer Keith Van Horn, the two - time WAC player of the year, married classmate Amy Sida at a ceremony attended by nearly all of his coaches and teammates.

Meanwhile, the losers will be shunned by society... bullied by classmates for crying on national TV, forced into trying drugs and alcohol at an even younger age than the winning team before ultimately becoming lifelong criminals themselves.

There was one little girl who would use the darkness to cover for her urge to pinch her classmates so hard they screamed, then deepen the darkness by, no matter what, denying anything at all had happened displaying a wide - eyed innocence that would have made Meryl Streep proud.

Mathis is a former Harvard Law classmate of President Obama's who was an early heavyweight on the Obama finance committee and had already co-chaired a major fundraiser for him at the Grand Hyatt by the time he met with DiNapoli.

They can hardly have imagined that their 1983 classmate Jeremy Corbyn would succeed them at the Labour helm — or that he would do so by proposing to reverse much of the work they did to transform the party.

[3] He was educated at Abingdon School — where he was a classmate of Francis Maude — and the University of Sussex, followed by Occidental College, Los Angeles.

The proportion of poor teenagers who go to university has been rising at a far higher rate than that of their better - off classmates, a statistical analysis by Labour shows.

Their significant others grow impatient and doubtful as the time ticks by, and they all gaze with fear and dread at the classmate who started the program during the Clinton Administration yet seems to have accomplished nothing worthwhile.

Many of the children said that, in the last month, they had been left out by classmates (41 per cent) and that they had been hit by other children at school (48 per cent).

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

«And this message is being constantly reinforced at almost every turn, by siblings, classmates, teachers, parents, guardians, relatives, clergy and coaches.»

Students who are bullied because of sexual orientation have willing defenders in their classmates — motivated by leadership, courage, their beliefs in justice, altruism and having lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender friends, according to a Boston College professor and co-author of a new report on bullying at school.

By my first day at school, I was reading well beyond the level of my classmates.

Working out is something you do at the gym, either by yourself or in a room full of sweaty classmates.

His dance teacher at Playwrights horizons, Maude Karlsonn (nicknamed the «Swedish Mistress of Pain» by classmates),...

I even knew some of my classmates at school were Catholic, but that still had no connection to my life as a child growing up in a relatively impoverished village where most of the families I knew were struggling to get by from day to day.

The story is described as a tale in which «a young boy attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates and his mother's terminal illness by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster.»

Once again, instead of Falcone elbowing us to sneer at her pit stains like the film's one over-the-top snob (played with zest by Debby Ryan), he aligns us with Deanna's friend and classmate Helen (Gillian Jacobs), who stares down the haters and cheers her buddy on.

Inattentive at school, anti-social with his classmates, and ignored by his addiction afflicted parents, his guiding influence comes in the form of local drug dealer Linden (first - timer Christopher Edwards), who models the listless boy in his own image.

Likewise, how many teen comedies address money problems at all, let alone make class insecurity — and what it's like to grow up poor, especially when surrounded by well - off classmates — a central focus?

Carrie's outburst is made not only terrifying, but also heartbreaking by the fact that the director let his audience get attached to her suffering at the hands of her classmates, her mother, and her puberty, before unleashing her revenge in a wordless sequence of unforgettable bloodshed.

At her new high school, the socially - awkward 17 year - old proves to be pretty popular, and finds herself being courted by classmates representing a variety of familiar teensploitation archetypes, from the handsome hunk (Michael Welch) to the nerdy Asian (Justin Chon) to the jive black guy (Gregory Tyree Boyce).

The movie will follow «a young boy who attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates, and his mother's terminal illness, by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster.»

In Lady Bird, characters do indeed come and go, including two boyfriends — played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Lettsby Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Lettsby the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy LettsBy Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Letts).

But Ren convinces his classmates that music is a celebration — and the preacher's daughter Ariel (played at Pilot Arts by Taylor Edwards) helps him argue his case with verses from the Bible.

THERE»S A shocking and funny scene in «Mistress America» involving high school classmates meeting by chance at a bar, where one dredges up long - ago bullying.

Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is a middle - class student at Oxford who is drawn into the aristocratic high life by fellow classmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw).

Even with the earth's predicted doom just months away, when the comet's young discoverer (played by Elijah Wood) makes a presentation at his high school a classmate stands up tall and loud and claims that the best thing about being famous is that?

At one point, while Ramasan's classmates all draw pictures of home represented by houses and high streets (one of them even has drawn in a Zara store, which I found oddly hilarious), he himself draws a picture of a tank; or that at another he literalizes his inner struggle by actually switching sides in a regular local football gamAt one point, while Ramasan's classmates all draw pictures of home represented by houses and high streets (one of them even has drawn in a Zara store, which I found oddly hilarious), he himself draws a picture of a tank; or that at another he literalizes his inner struggle by actually switching sides in a regular local football gamat another he literalizes his inner struggle by actually switching sides in a regular local football game.

The endearing and amusing Aaron Johnson stars as Dave Lizewski, a teenager who spends his days being bullied around by other kids at his high school, hanging out with his buddies at his neighbourhood comic book shop, jerking off to thoughts of his big - titted English teacher (Deborah Twiss) and secretly longing for pretty classmate Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca).

There are issues too: Neil isn't ready to commit to Marina, who returns to Paris with her daughter just at the point his head is turned by former classmate Jane (Rachel McAdams).

To commemorate her year at Harvard, the Colorado native embarked on the project, «20 Headstands: A Year at Harvard» — a series of images taken by classmate Laura Suval, Ed.M.»

«By sharing perspectives and differing approaches, classmates can in some cases teach their students more effectively than the professor,» says Lani Guinier, describing the teaching practices she employs at Harvard Law School — practices that could be instituted in almost any educational setting.

Reports published by the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut have shown that most general education classroom teachers are poorly equipped to meet the needs of the gifted, and that gifted students can spend as much as half the school repeating curriculum and waiting for classmates to catch up.

ConTextos — the precursor of which was Learning Through Libraries, started by Gittler with classmates at the Ed School — began in El Salvador before expanding across the Central American region.

My classmate Ted was a natural at math, one of the Two Talents measured by the SATs at the time, and on a sure path to Most Favored Student status.

And TFA alums certainly make an impression at the Ed School — both on their classmates and on faculty — by sharing their experiences and their dedication to the field.

Communication Comparisons 06/20/2001 [World History, Language Arts Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8 Submitted by VaReane Heese] VaReane Heese, a teacher at Springfield (Nebraska) Elementary School submitted this week's lesson in which students use online and print resources to research different methods of communication, use graphic organizers to compare the methods, and share their findings with classmates.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.