Sentences with phrase «eighth grade daughter»

The Buffalo Democrat says his eighth grade daughter won't be taking the English test at City Honors.

I want my eighth grade daughter to run and jump and play and dream, to get off her phone, get off the computer, and walk with me and my dog in the evening.

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And I, for one, don't want to tell my own eighth - grade daughter that I didn't do anything to try to stop it.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

This was a press conference that pivoted from a daughter's eighth - grade graduation to an insider trading scandal in a matter of seconds.

«The worst thing [about playing] was missing my daughter's eighth - grade graduation,» says Griffith, 35, the MVP of the WNBA in 1999 and a two - time Olympic gold medalist.

Amabilia Villeda, 41, of Los Angeles, has had three children attend 24th Street Elementary and said her oldest daughter, now in eighth grade, left the school unable to read.

When her daughter was in kindergarten, Tatelli and other parents of children with food allergies worked with Highland Park School District 112, which spans pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, to develop a policy.

«The daughters who were being encouraged to lose weight but whose moms were not also discussing their own weight concerns were more at risk for development of disordered eating, based on the higher scores on measures of dieting behavior and drive for thinness they reported in eighth grade.»

My twin daughters will be graduating eighth grade this month.

Katherine's parents are also informed that their daughter is gifted, but that her Greenbrier County, West Virginia public school doesn't offer an education to African - Americans past the eighth grade.

Tiblez Berhane has a daughter in eighth grade who is attending Sheridan with a voucher and financial aid from the school.

The Mississippi native had sent them instead to Urban Day Academy, a mostly black private school that ended at eighth grade, and was looking for a high school for her oldest daughter.

She decided to home - school her elder daughter in sixth through eighth grades because, Ms. Devos said, the daughter had grown increasingly bored in school and the girls in her class were growing increasingly «catty.»

While finding a new teaching job is also a concern for McGovern, she's also a parent of a daughter who «has to go to another school just for eighth grade and make new friends,» McGovern said.