Sentences with phrase «class parents in»

Until the liberalization of divorce that began in the 1970s, many middle class parents in unhappy marriages stayed married «for the sake of the children.»

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

Labour's views are based on a reality that has long dissolved; free schools are no longer for white middle - class parents in areas where they are not wanted It's...

New York was one of the first states to use Common Core - aligned tests, and as students» scores plummeted under the new tests, a small army of mostly white, middle - class parents in the city's suburbs began to loudly oppose the exams.

I grew up one of six children with working class parents in the Deep South.

Ask yourself, what middle - class parent in America today supposes that her authority over the crucial details of her child's life is nothing more than a revocable delegation from New Mexico or the feds?

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One parent, John Obin, told Associated Press that his son was in class when the gunfire broke out.

Working out of his parents» middle - class home, he would offer to sell a piece of software on one site before it was in his possession.

For the first time in the United States, middle class, Caucasian children may not live as long as their parents.

When recognition of that complexity shapes hiring, it opens transformative opportunities to people from groups underrepresented in top professions: ethnic minorities, stay - at - home parents, working - class kids, veterans.

«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life,» Albuquerque Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.

I was trying to make my parents proud by going to college but I looked at it — being told what classes to take, the amount of debt I'd be in — and it wasn't for me.

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.

This comes in the wake of a class - action suit filed against its parent company Avid Life Media in Canada last week.

Robinson's memoir, A Game of Character, documents the lessons he learned from his working - class parents growing up on Chicago's South Side, and how he's applied them in life and in basketball.

«10 - Percent Stockholder» means an individual who owns more than 10 % of the total combined voting power of all classes of outstanding stock of the Company or of its parent corporation or subsidiary corporation (as defined in Code Sections 424 (e) and (f)-RRB-.

I was in a middle - class family with hard - working parents.

Provided, however, that an incentive stock option held by a participant who owns more than 10 % of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock, or of certain of our parent or subsidiary corporations, may not have a term in excess of five years and must have an exercise price of at least 110 % of the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date.

In re HP Securities Litigation consists of two consolidated putative class actions filed on November 26 and 30, 2012 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging, among other things, that from August 19, 2011 to November 20, 2012, the defendants violated Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Exchange Act by concealing material information and making false statements related to Parent's acquisition of Autonomy and the financial performance of Parent's enterprise services businesIn re HP Securities Litigation consists of two consolidated putative class actions filed on November 26 and 30, 2012 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging, among other things, that from August 19, 2011 to November 20, 2012, the defendants violated Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Exchange Act by concealing material information and making false statements related to Parent's acquisition of Autonomy and the financial performance of Parent's enterprise services businesin the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging, among other things, that from August 19, 2011 to November 20, 2012, the defendants violated Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Exchange Act by concealing material information and making false statements related to Parent's acquisition of Autonomy and the financial performance of Parent's enterprise services business.

Since then, however, Ratner has lost standing with the parent company, long controlled by family members, which in late 2016 announced it was dismantling its two - class share structure and that he would leave the board.

Natacha also offers free parenting classes in all communities, in order to give families the tools they need to raise happy, kind, independent children.

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

, Claude Erb compares the performance of the PIMCO Total Return ETF (BOND), an exchange - traded fund (ETF) introduced in March 2012, to that of its parent mutual fund PIMCO Total Return Institutional Class (PTTRX).

It also cuts taxes for parents and middle - class singles while moving the tax code in a more pro-growth direction.

«The idea (promoted by politicians of both the left and the right) that Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are falling from the middle class in great bunches, even trailing behind the living standard of their parents, is, in aggregate, complete rubbish.

We learn about Bonhoeffer's fussiness about dress, his financial dependence on his parents (to the point of mailing his laundry home), and his pleasure in traveling first class.

After 30 years of experience in the field, I am seeing for the first time in the past decade forms of neglect in educated, middle - class parents....

It is parochial to suppose that ambition is limited to parents of the middle class, in suburbia, and in the United States.

When I was young, middle class parents wished for their children a more comfortable and successful life, but one in continuity with the broad middle class consensus.

RAMPANT REBUKES: Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Scientologists, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State quickly condemned the Court's decision, which could make it harder for parents to exempt their children from offensive classes or for prisoners to participate in Bible studies.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

They couldn't write yet, but they could create plays and carry home reports to their parents and communicate with youngsters in other classes today — and in other countries tomorrow.

They get taken in and out of their parent's homes again and again and placed in foster care while their parents get cleaned up from drugs, alcohol, etc or go through the hoops of parenting classes, jail, whatever to regain custody.

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For this reason it is important for a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimized.

Direct involvement of parents in religious education occurs through home assignments, teacher - parent and teacher - parent - child workshops, and through the use of parents as rotating «helpers» in classes.

For while school bells ring throughout An American Childhood, neither classes nor teachers are memorable — except, that is, for the informal instruction in joke - telling offered at home by both parents.

But West and Hewlett are less interested in rehearsing the specific concerns of African - Americans and women than in uniting beleaguered parents across race, class, gender and political affiliation.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Ministers» difficulty in retaining a place in the professional middle class comes into sharp relief when they face financing college education, retirement and even elder care for their parents.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

They liked their work for the most part, but were «up to their ears» in discipline problems, staff tensions, criticisms from parents, and feelings of being sucked dry by the enormous needs of oversized classes.

She is five, and her parents have rented a room in their house to a woman who holds classes for young children.

At the big, evangelical church it was almost unheard of to have children in our classes who didn't attend church with both parents.

It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle - class Christian parents, a fact that — through no merit of my own — has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.

Is it only a coincidence that old - line denominations have declined in the same period when middle - class parents find themselves less able to expect their children to conform to the family tradition?

We adopted inner city schools.We showed up at the pre-trial centre to teach parenting classes, to hug life - ers in the women's prison without qualification.

James McCollum said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he tolerated the religion classes in the fourth grade but decided in the fifth that he did not want to continue, and his parents supported him.

Heeding the advice from a fellow parent, Jack and Rebecca decide to enroll Randall in a karate class led by a black instructor and filled with young boys who look just like him.

«Pro-life people,» she wrote, «believe that one becomes a parent by being a parent; parenthood is for them a «natural» rather than a social role The values implied by the in - vogue term «parenting» (as in parenting classes) are alien to them.»