Sentences with phrase «children take to school»

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For example, 71 percent of businesses with 11 to 100 employees allow them to take time off from work for children's school activities, such as parent - teacher conferences.

«I would have also taken my child to visit more in - state schools during high school.»

Go for this card if you see lots of traveling in your future, whether it's because your child goes to boarding school or that you're planning on taking a vacation, Wallethub advised.

The work life balance enables me to take my children to school at 8 a.m. and pick them up again at 2:30 p.m., all while I am be able to share the rest of the day with them.

RBC and Free The Children urge schools across Canada to take up the challenge of financial literacy with It All Adds Up...

Although I would like to take you to task over your assertions over school funding and the your contention that you have had children, I'll restrain myself.

It wasn't until a public servant took it upon themselves to test the water in Prince Rupert schools this year that it was revealed that children and staff are being exposed to elevated lead levels.

Children often wait four or more years for schools to be rebuilt, and I hope that more companies will take the same thoughtful actions for long - term recovery.»

People were buying things like crazy, where did all the money go... we take a look at the leadership's homes, their cars, the schools they sent their children to and where they went on vacation.

After breakfast, she takes the children to school and returns home.

it's comical how religion can take a person with little more than a grade school education — and elevate their mind to the level where they literally believe they can argue subjects for which they are so completely ill - equipped — that virtually everything they posit seems as if it's coming from an 8 year old child.

The head of the Catholic Education Service has said it will be «dreadful» if faith schools exploit new rules to take children from only their religion.

Hopefully, like a child standing up to a school - yard bully or a stranger reigning in some spoiled, poorly acting child in a public venue, Americans can stand up and take their country back.

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

There is not a day that goes by that their is some liberal telling me what I can say and not say (political correctness), what I should and should not eat, what I should and should not wear, what light bulbs I have to buy, what car I should and should not drive, indoctrinate my children in schools with left wing dribble, take my property and do things with it I don't approve of.

Ok lets take that one step further... Why do we send Children to school?

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

«They took a part of my soul, and it can never be replaced,» says this man of peace and nonviolence whose life has been devoted to the children and staff of a school for emotionally disturbed youngsters.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

image source When I was in high school, I heard the African proverb «It takes a village to raise a child» for the first time.

Once the residential schools fell out of favour, the governments slowly began to close them and instead opted to take indigenous children from their families to place them to be fostered and adopted by non-indigenous families.

His mother began to fight for her son, first against a local public school system that takes a cookie - cutter approach to children, then against the county and state.

It takes most children over an hour to walk the winding gravel roads to school.

The Supreme Court has taken his Bible away from the schools and forbidden little children to pray.»

Parents, very often, we focus on making sure our children are growing strong and healthy physically, and we send them to school to develop mentally — but what steps are you taking to make sure they are developing spiritually?

Children of the impressionable ages often take their Sunday school teacher very seriously and are highly sensitive to the emotional nuances of their teacher's responses.

If you feel as though you need to take your child out of school 2 - 3 days a year for religious purposes, do so.

«Otherwise, if they are going to select, they need to be upfront about it and say «Look, we're grammar schools, we're going to take according to ability and we're just going to go for the brainiest children.

However, I think if you want your child to observe Islamic holidays you should take them to Islamic countries or to Islamic schools (lke jewish people and catholic people do).

Yet it is precisely the privilege of Dillard's background that she knew would clip her wings and force another life upon her: the country club and its obsessive cultivation of a suntan; years of dancing school and white cotton gloves; the fate of young ladies to take custody of unquestioned codes, to be «vigilantes of the trivial,» to accept their destiny («to marry Holden Caulfield's roommate, and buy a house in Point Breeze, and send our children to dancing school»)

When I was a child, attending grade school in Washington, D.C., we took classroom time to study manners.

Like many of the children, she's alert to times when other children are too fragile to sustain the give - and - take of repartee; and when, as often happens at the after - school, one of the younger children suddenly begins to cry, or seems to be right at the precipice of tears, she switches gears almost immediately.

Los Angeles (CNN)- Former LAPD Detective Federico Sicard still remembers the Monday he arrived at a school to interview children who said a priest had molested them, even though the visit took place 23 years ago.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

So I'll make you a deal... stop trying to take over my goverment, control the bodies of women who don't share your extreme beliefs, force children to pray to your gods in schools, destroy scientific and medical advances that I depend upon, and I'll be more than happy to go back to ignoring you.

When I was in high school, I heard the African proverb «It takes a village to raise a child» for the first time.

Parental choice in general, and Catholic schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.

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.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

So your irrational fear that taking god out of public schools and the public in general would lead to a huge catastrophe is ridiculous and is fear mongering that I am sure has been hammered into your head since you were a child.

Affirmative action programs are being challenged; attitudes toward immigration have taken a restrictionist turn; and many white families seek to place their children in schools with few children of color.

Even the Sunday School took its rise in a move to provide the elements of education for the working children of the poor on the only day they were free.

And isn't ironic, Keith, when God was taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance, that chrildren started bringing guns to school and killing other children?

My children shake their heads at the stories of segregation in schools, restaurants and doctors» offices, unable to believe such things took place in their parents» lifetimes.

This year, with all four children schooling and a blog to write and other paid projects needing to be done, I took the easy way out for American lit.

They occasionally took wives from the community, and their children often went to school with Nayar children.

Take the money away from the public schools where children will be taught real science and that a «theory» is very close to a proven fact because it is supported by the preponderance of the evidence.

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