Sentences with phrase «child goes to high school»

They will have to adjust the investment mix when their child goes to high school.

These small numbers continued through World War I, when only about 5 percent of American children went to high school and eighth grade was the culmination, says education historian and former dean Patricia Albjerg Graham.

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The zone now covers over 100 blocks and serves more than 12,000 children, with 95 % of high school seniors going off to college.

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

We were privileged to be in a position to allow our children to go to university after completing high school.

Parents who continue to teach their children this are inevitably going to confuse the heck out of their children when they have to take more advanced science courses in high school and college.

Israeli children as a matter of policy remain with the same classmates from kindergarten through high school, and go into the army together and usually remain there together in the same unit (some experts ascribe the disproportionate military effectiveness of Israel's army to this practice).

As their children graduated from high school and went to college or started working, as parents aged and retired, the neighborhood changed.

We go above and beyond what USDA requires in school meals by ensuring all our meals are free from artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners, ensuring that our food is delivered fresh to schools each day, and ensuring that the quality of the ingredients in everything we offer is of a high quality that we would (and do) serve to our own children.

I have three children, the oldest is turning fourteen and going to high school and the youngest is eight years old.

He also told the paper he couldn't shake a comment he heard last spring by a parent, who said his child, a high school freshman, was afraid to go to school.

Reading the comment carefully, you understand that the father (and child) feel less shame about taking advantage of school meals at breakfast, where the service is universal (available to all regardless of economic need) versus at lunch, where there is often a more visible distinction between paying and nonpaying students, or between students on the federally reimbursable lunch line versus those who can purchase for - cash (and often more desirable) «a la carte» food, or (in the case of high schoolers) between students who can go off campus to buy lunch at convenience stores and restaurants versus those with no money in their pockets.

Before high school, a child is not likely to fully appreciate that if she plays on a select team she may often be practicing or going to bed early, worn out after a hard day of exercise, while her classmates are watching TV or socializing, or she may be getting up early, while others are giving their growing bodies the rest they so desperately need.

Overall, the study found that the longer children were breastfed, up to twelve months, they went to school longer, had higher levels of intelligence and reported higher earnings.

My kids went back to school this morning and it was bittersweet to see my two children, now both taller than I am, heading off to high school.

Eventually, the children will produce their own line of high - end toys with the profits going to the school in Kenya.

It also reorganised secondary education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.

But as at now the promise of making education free for all students of senior high school has not been achieved... it's in the interest of government to state this because some parents of second and third year believe that their children are going to enjoy free education and if it is not explained, it will create problems for the headmasters and headmistresses.

Chris Keates: «We all aspire to ensure that all children and young people wherever they go to school have the highest standards of education».

«I am determined that the policy of free Senior High School will continue and continue and continue... so that all our children would always have the opportunity to go to school,» the President said attracting an appreciating applause of a delegation from the Bawku traditional Area led by the Bawku Naaba, Asigri Abugrago Azorka II who called on him at the Flagstaff House in School will continue and continue and continue... so that all our children would always have the opportunity to go to school,» the President said attracting an appreciating applause of a delegation from the Bawku traditional Area led by the Bawku Naaba, Asigri Abugrago Azorka II who called on him at the Flagstaff House in school,» the President said attracting an appreciating applause of a delegation from the Bawku traditional Area led by the Bawku Naaba, Asigri Abugrago Azorka II who called on him at the Flagstaff House in Accra.

The goal is to target districts with high rates of childhood homelessness or few safe after - school options to help ensure children have a safe and productive place to go when school lets out.

«All you have to do now is not only feel sorry for the liars, but you have to go against them and pray to God that the lies can be crushed and the liars can be silenced so that real measures can be put into place to actually save children's lives,» Nugent said about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students.

The study found that children who went through the program graduated from high school at a significantly higher rate and were more likely to land good - paying jobs.

«The way that they're going to want to live here is if they know that they have high performing safe schools to send their children, then we're going to be back on the right track,» Lavine said.

We have a higher and higher proportion of children who go to school and become a part of the modern world.

I went to High School and graduated also I have been in the US Marine Corps for 10 years I have two children my son is 23 he's in the US Marine Corps.

I am a widow of 8 years and I think I am ready to meet someone for dating to see how we get along I am a Florida native, Caucasian I don't smoke or drink and would like the same I only went to high school I don't have a car and I don't want children or anyone who is under 72 years young.

She wants nothing more than to attend the school where the children of higher incomed families go.

He sang in the church choir as a child, and quarterbacked his high school's football team, before going on to major in classical music and composition in college.

They both have dreams of going to the same prestigious arts high school together, but the children can't avoid the problems of their parents forever, and soon, the adult conflict intrudes upon their friendship.

I don't know what exactly I was expecting when I decided to go to my first annual Quidditch World Cup in Manhattan (featuring Muggle Quidditch teams of various high schools and universities from both US and Canada, including Harvard, Yale, NYU and McGill), but it was probably something less violent than what I saw, due to a part of my consciousness still identifying the Harry Potter universe as a product of innocent children's literature.

Going forward, policy makers who care about their low - income high achievers should take full advantage of their newfound authority under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to ensure that their schools have ample incentives to educate those children, and all children, to the max.

These children are the keys to a secure and sustainable future, and their education matters for us all,» said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and adds «Only one in two refugee children go to primary school, and one in four to secondary.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

I teach at the school where I went to high school, and I have sent my children to the same progressive K - 8 school I attended, Peninsula School in Menloschool where I went to high school, and I have sent my children to the same progressive K - 8 school I attended, Peninsula School in Menloschool, and I have sent my children to the same progressive K - 8 school I attended, Peninsula School in Menloschool I attended, Peninsula School in MenloSchool in Menlo Park.

So we have to make sure each child goes outside of his / her comfort zone and speaks and listens to every child in the classroom on a regular basis (I cringe to think of my days as a new high school teacher when I am sure «student K» went the whole year without uttering a sentence to «student G» and vice versa.)

And then for our research, we have to both have a good measure of value added and ensure that when we're using that measure, we are doing a good job of also accounting for other things that might be going on during a child's schooling that might also affect 8th - grade tests and high school outcomes.

Secretary Duncan, in trying to belittle their maternal opposition, went on to say that these moms oppose the higher standards because «all of a sudden their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

The central concept, he says, is that the nation's 40 million K — 12 students should be offered the same high - standard education no matter where they go to school; a child in Mississippi, say, should finish each grade with the same general proficiencies as one in Maine — and ready to compete in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

This year marks a milestone for the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy I charter school: It graduates its first class of high - school seniors — and all of them will be going to college in the fall.

The highest out - of - school rates are in Eritrea and Liberia, where 66 per cent and 59 per cent of children, respectively, do not go to primary school.

It is hardly surprising that only a minority of rural children gets into secondary school, and only a small part of that group goes on to higher education.

Children from more affluent families from state schools were almost four times as likely as young people from low - income families (3.8 times) to go on to join a higher - tariff university in 2016.

I have to avoid making comparisons and focus on the good things going on at Benton Junior High School and what is best for the junior high chHigh School and what is best for the junior high chhigh child.

Our academic goals include children entering kindergarten ready to learn and students graduating from high school and going on to obtain a postsecondary degree or certification.

Most parents think their children are on track to be prepared for college after their 12th - grade year, but the truth is, a shockingly large share of graduating high - school seniors are not prepared to go to college.

The more children felt connected to their school community and felt engaged, rather than bored, the greater their likelihood of achieving a higher educational qualification and going on to a professional or managerial career.

«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...»

Fully 69 percent of the public, and a solid majority of every subgroup, say that they «would be willing to have a child [of theirs] go through high school taking some academic courses over the Internet» (Q. 8).