Sentences with phrase «class kid whose»

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Google is on the receiving end of a class - action lawsuit brought by parents whose kids unknowingly paid a substantial amount of money for in - app purchases.

In January, the program graduates its inaugural class of four teams, whose creations include a biosignal - tracking wristband; an impact - monitorinwg mouthguard that can help athletes avoid aggravating head injuries; a tracking device for skateboards; and a robotic toy that teaches kids as young as 4 to code.

That, of course, is just what you would expect from a working - class hero, a fellow whose father was a navy CPO; who never went to college, let alone Oxford or Cambridge; a beefy kid who had run with street gangs.

The state with the biggest jump in blue - chippers this year is Michigan, whose 10 four - and five - star kids mark, in total, a 2.3 percent increase over its average from the last four classes.

While the teacher suggested I stay with my kid (whose eyes were doing happy cartwheels at the thought of me being in class) another little girl was adamant I stay at the Math table even though my daughter had moved on and rotated to another table.

Everyone else in all your classes will be a.) a 19 - year - old college student visiting in between classes, b.) dudes, or c.) 60 - something retired ladies whose kids are long grown.

Thus, districts with in - class breakfast programs have an economic incentive to serve as many meals as possible, regardless of whether some meals are being served to kids who have no need for it — and whose parents would greatly prefer they not partake of it.

In my own neighborhood, which I would describe as middle class, there are quite a few kids whose parents go to work early and leave the it up to the kids to get themselves up, dressed, and onto the bus.

The sentiment is commendable, except that a voluntary scheme would see only the usual suspects attending — the kids who do Duke of Edinburgh, the white middle - class children whose parents are obsessed with how things look on their Ucas form.

A portrait of a subculture whose members take pride in walking their kids to the penitentiary's pre-K class.

The Kid with a Bike: Modern cinema's poets laureate of working - class marginalization and spiritual crises, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also bona fide motion - picture makers whose works brim with t...

James» brother, Dave Franco, plays Greg as a shy kid whose reaction to Tommy's flailing performance in Shelton's class wasn't mockery but admiration.

Four moms, whose only common ground is their kids» preschool class, decide to get together for a harmless «fun mom dinner.»

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

I loved the fact that kids got to know the world outside school and learned that with technology they could talk to people anywhere, said Luisa Ojeda - Vera, a kindergarten teacher at Florida's Sand Pine Elementary School, whose students used Skype to connect with a class at another school in the district.

But I'm also a poor kid from Brooklyn whose parents supported and believed in education — without having any themselves — and who saw strength in the fact that their daughter had the appetite and the fearlessness to get everything she could from every class she attended.

In D.C., an automated call notifies parents whose kids were absent that day and, for high schoolers, which class periods they missed.

This school exists specifically for kids whose families would otherwise not be able to afford a first class education, and might not even be able to afford to send them to school at all.

This California - centric volume contends that many middle - class families live under the illusion that their kids» schools are swell and that it's only poor families whose children are trapped in bad schools and therefore need charters, vouchers, open enrollment plans, and other policies and programs designed to afford them access to better options.

The consequence for children whose parents can't afford $ 40,000 - a-year tuitions — lower and middle class kids — is of course terrible.

This will be a logistical nightmare — figuring out which 125 students are going on which days, disrupting teachers whose testing students are out of class, finding space for kids who take longer than expected, finding places for the students displaced from their computer lab classes, and more that I'm sure I haven't thought of.

The fact that many of the early groups that arose to represent parents were run by middle - class women whose desire to improve the lot of poor kids were mixed in with their own disdain for their parents also played a part in this co-opting.

«If kids aren't there every day, it's going to be hard for us to succeed,» said Balfanz, whose work has helped show that there is a tight link between students who miss class frequently — more than 10 percent of the school year, or 18 days in a 180 - day school year — and those who struggle academically and eventually drop out.

«It didn't take but one day of that for the kids to get it,» said Liptrap, whose coach helped her cure several other class - management hiccups.

I thought of that earlier this year when I reviewed a biography by Amy Houts of TV personality Rachel Maddow (Rachel Maddow: Primetime Political Commentator), whose life as an out lesbian — I noted in the review — has been distinguished by a number of «firsts»: she was one of only two openly gay students in her freshman class at Stanford; the first openly gay recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship; and the first openly gay person to host a prime - time news show on TV — a terrific role model, in short, for LGBTQ kids, who, historically, have had too few such in books to read.

An author of books for young adults points to research showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic status.»