Sentences with phrase «children out of school»

Of course, our real estate office within our home and children out of school for Christmas holidays...... well.......

I took both of my children out of this school and we home schooled for 6 months then got an in district transfer to JGI.

I have met more parents who have pulled their children out of this school than any other in the valley.

People who have paid - off homes, adult children out of school and sizable savings may not need a life insurance policy, Russell says.

Many Ghanaians spend 10 to 20 percent of their income on drinking water, forcing many poor urban families to take their children out of school to help cover costs.

Our dependence on fossil fuels takes children out of school, off the playground and places them in the hospital.

Vouchers allow parents to receive public funding to help them move their children out of their school districts and into the private or parochial schools they prefer.

She also said some parents approved of pulling their children out of school for day while on vacation, for a class party or early dismissal.

In a review of the latest research about the consequences of keeping children out of school an extra year shows that delaying kindergarten entry often has negative effects.

o Ensure that teachers take children out of school to explore the community and to visit neighborhood institutions.

Phelps Elementary was closed by the Washington County School District in 2001 after Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, ordered his followers to pull their children out of the school in 2000, which caused enrollment to drop severely.

Adding that the issue was also one of social justice, Gibb said it sent a «message to everyone that school attendance is not important» when «parents with the income available to take their children out of school go to Florida».

The survey asked a nationally representative sample of Americans about the state of education and found that between May and June 2016 — over a year after news accounts about parents» opting their children out of school tests became commonplace — the public's commitment to the use of standardized tests to assess students and schools remains firm.

«Leaving aside the fact that these young people will not receive a decent education, this is a safeguarding risk — we have real concerns that children out of school may be at greater risk of radicalisation or other harms.»

Last year, hundreds of parents protested against the tests by taking their children out of school in some areas.

«The irony of what is going on is, here is a woman who makes quite a substantial living on the ability to create schools by pushing thousands of children out of their school buildings, and now she is upset that someone is pushing back on her,» said Michael Mulgrew, the president of the city teachers» union.

Craig Langman, of the campaign group Parents Want A Say, argued that headteachers are employing «double standards» by forbidding parents from taking their children out of school during term time while shutting down schools due to a «small blanket of snow».

«I was not advised by my organization to push children out of my school.

Satisfied parents do not transfer their children out of a school.

Mr Gibb said: «Such absence is still a problem but it is clear that more head teachers are refusing simply to wave through parents» requests to take their children out of school for term - time holidays.

A seminal 1974 Children's Defense Fund report called «Children Out of School» chronicled the extent of the problem.

«There are still 58 million children out of school globally and around 100 million children who do not complete primary education,» UNESCO Director - General Irina Bokova says, adding «Inequality in education has increased, with the poorest and most disadvantaged shouldering the heaviest burden.»

The campaign comes as a result of the Supreme Court considering whether councils should fine parents who take their children out of school for the sake of a holiday.

Quantitative, and survey research methods were applied in analysing the statistical data of young people that are unemployed, children out of school and survey methods was used to determine which programs and initiatives of promoting global awareness works.

This examination of the problem by the founder and director of the Project on Global Working Families at Harvard University's school of public health demonstrates the plight of two - income working families that need to care for dependents such as preschool - age children, children out of school for vacation or due to illness, and elderly parents.

The government has come under criticism for its reforms to Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 SATs tests, which led to parents taking children out of school for a one day strike in May this year.

«But holding children out of school may not give them any advantage, and may cause problems.»

As pressure mounts to include universal secondary education in the post-2015 global development agenda, the report shows the way forward to break the barriers that keep children out of school.

In addition to this, the Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund, a group which raises money for children with the life - limiting illness, has said that parents who take their sick children out of school during term time have also been prosecuted.

When parents with the income available to take their children out of school go to Florida it sends the message that schools aren't important.»

With just a couple of clicks, it is possible to explore key issues, such as completion rates from primary to tertiary education, the percentage of children out of school, the amount spent on each pupil's education, and the supply of qualified teachers.

This is more than half of the total children out of school, living in countries that feature the deepest gender inequalities, the lowest literacy levels and some of the highest child death rates in the world.

Santander has said that the figures suggest the fines are not successful in deterring parents from taking children out of school, as they would rather take the fine from the school to avoid holiday price hikes.

Not only did some parents take their children out of school in protest at the reintroduction of examination for seven year olds, the DfE also witnessed the leak of a highly confidential SATs paper the day before examinations were due to take place.

Parents have been fined a total of # 5.6 million across England and Wales for taking their children out of school during term time.

While these finding gives some hope, the reality is that globally, the number of children out of school has fallen, from 60 million in 2008 to 57 million in 2011.

Addressing that chronic absenteeism was like untangling a rope, loosening knotted - up, long - established habits, cultural issues, and the persistent barriers of poverty that can keep children out of school, leaders in the district of 835 students said.

Police on patrol in three German airports have launched investigations into 20 families who pulled their children out of school to go on vacation.

Jeff Alger, 34, who works in the Kansas oil fields on a fracking crew, said his wife Sophia took their children out of school when she heard a tornado was coming and then fled Moore and watched it flatten the town from a few miles away.

Schools and health centres are shutting down with thousands of school age children out of school.

A threat posted on Facebook last night prompted a number of Scotia - Glenville parents to pull their children out of school today — the day of a planned walkout to protest gun violence, district officials said.

Conventionally schooling our children would also have a huge impact on our holidays, since you can not just take your children out of school whenever you feel like it (now doesn't that just seem odd to you, they're your children, after all), now we are on a one month every five months schedule, if we were schooling, we'd have to adapt to school holidays

Many who decide to take their children out of school — for all sorts of good reasons — continue thinking that the schooling model is basically correct.

If you're just starting to consider home education, or have recently taken your children out of school to educate them at home, you probably have all kinds of questions about what to do, how to help your children to learn, whether to use a formal curriculum, how to organise meals around home education, whether you'll ever again get any time to yourself... These home education articles address these issues and more, from my perspective having «been there, done that!».

Care with hand washing, diapering, and keeping sick children out of school or day care until the diarrhea is gone are a few ways to limit the number of people exposed to the infection.

This article discovers why one mother decided to take her children out of school.

They took their children out of school.

They have no scientific evidence to support their claims yet they have taken children out of school to proclaim their «message» and now they're traipsing about telling others to do the same!

Because if the parents are willing to pull there children out of school, theres probally a good chance they wont learn most of those morals.

Typically, incoming presidents have allowed a grace period for politically appointed ambassadors to leave the country so that they have time to transition their children out of schools and prepare for life back in the US.