Sentences with phrase «class parents of»

The proposed funding formula threatens to undo recent progress in making high quality public schools a realistic and viable option for middle class parents of all races.

Teachers have reduced time to teach, are forced to teach many remedial courses, and generally seek to leave; middle - class parents of all races do the same.

Season one saw upper - middle - class parents of two, Frances (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Robert (Thomas Haden Church), descend into an increasingly hostile separation after 10 years of marriage.

Not exact matches

But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working - class parents» savings were being spent on my college tuition.

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

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.

The most effective use of reverse psychology for parents hoping to push older kids towards wise choices isn't to actively manipulate them towards your desired aim — i.e. by fake nonchalantly asking if perhaps your child would like to give up a sport or AP class - but rather to hand control back to a kid who feels like they're already being pushed toward a particular future.

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.

The fund's top five holdings include MuleSoft, Syntel and Google - parent Alphabet Class C as of Jan. 31, according to Morningstar.

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.

Most of the company would continue to be owned by current parent IAC / InterActiveCorp, via a triple - class stock structure.

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.

WeeSpring, a social - media site started by Allyson Downey; her husband, Jack; and Melissa Post to help new parents share product recommendations, was one of just 11 companies selected - from a pool of 1,700 applicants - for Techstars's 2013 class at its New York City office.

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.

Some of the classes teach them about business, some about life; they range from MBA - style instruction to character and parent education.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

«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-.

The Alberta government's showpiece bill this fall explicitly prohibits schools from telling parents their children have joined a peer support club for LGBT students, and clarifies that existing notification policies about discussions of sexuality and religion don't go beyond class lessons.

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.

A benefit for middle - class parents Extending parental leave would mostly address middle - income earners, says Alisa Fulshtinsky, creator and chief administrator of Toronto Mommies.

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 business.

If you can play Mozart conciertos by the age of 3, then hopefully your parents push you to be a world class musician without pushing you into madness.

Some parents and teachers were angered and confused last hurricane season, as the Space Coast braced for a direct hit from Hurricane Matthew, when the district held classes the day of evacuations for the barrier islands.

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).

Family - Friendly Tax Reform - This plan would save thousands of dollars for working - class and middle - class parents and cut taxes on investment income.

«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.

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 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.

If Augustine's modern, secular children Marx and Freud have taught us anything, it is that the idea that we are unaffected by the sins, economic interests and neuroses of our parents, class, nation, race and gender is absurd.

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

For a list of resources, see Parent Education: Family Enrichment Classes (Discipleship Resources, 1987).

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.

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?

Continue reading «Meditation of a Middle - Aged, (Upper) Middle - Class, White, Liberal, Protestant Parent»

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

These working - class Trump voters were not poor, and their own lives were not a mess, but they were the neighbors, siblings, parents, and grandparents of those who were struggling to form families.

Jim came from a Scottish working - class background and was the son of devout Roman Catholic 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.

As recently as the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the family.

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.

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.

Like many of Maytown's working - class adults, Anthony's parents are divorced.