Sentences with phrase «dozen kids placing»

AWA has recently become one of the country's top youth wrestling clubs, with something like a dozen kids placing at FloNationals last week.

Not exact matches

Pay the mortgage on a $ 10m mansion as well as a $ 5m summer place in the Hamptons, put four kids through Ivy League colleges, fly first class anywhere you'd like, make half a dozen angel investments at $ 250K each, eat out every night at three star restaurants, vacation on the Riviera, and have a full - time cook, butler, nanny and chauffeur.

In middle school I had been placed in an accelerated algebra class with a dozen other kids under the assumption that we would all be able to thrive in advanced courses designed for students two years our senior.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

In more than half a dozen restaurants in four square blocks, and a couple more places nearby, hip couples in de rigeur black chat on cell phones, women in saris admonish their kids, and cab drivers leave their taxis idling — all as they down a mango lassi or quick tandoori kebab.