Sentences with phrase «eighth grade son»

Assemblyman Ray Walter says his eighth grade son won't be either at his school.

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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.

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

One of the parents who reached out was George Briscoe, whose son Isaiah had not yet entered eighth grade.

With one son heading into eighth grade and one entering sixth, Appelbaum knows that in many ways the worst is behind yet in front of her at the same time.

Lori Wolff's son attended Immaculate from preschool through eighth grade and now attends Archbishop Carroll High School.

The way I talked with my older son (third grade) is different from how I'll talk to eighth graders.

John Spencer, an eighth - grade teacher in Phoenix, Arizona, loves Good Will Hunting, bike riding, Dostoevsky, his wife, and his two sons.

Concerned that the school doesn't have strong music, art, or physical education classes, Dukes said he is not sure his son will remain at Eden Grove through eighth grade.

«It won't be Hawthorne anymore,» says Grace Sergio, a Hawthorne parent association leader whose eighth - grade son plays basketball and often stays at school till well after six.

LOS ANGELES — Most days, you can find Melissa Estrada at Monseñor Oscar Romero Charter Middle School in Central Los Angeles where her son Angel Hernandez is in eighth grade.

At the end of my son's eighth grade year, when he was about to move on to high school, the school went on an end of year trip.

Her son is in eighth grade and had just taken the New York State Regents exam in English / Language Arts.

Johanna Rodriguez, whose eighth - grade son was included in the civil rights complaint, said her son was suspended and at home for most of last year, while this year she said he was suspended in school most of the time in a room set aside for students who are removed from class because of a behavior issue.

But for her own son, who has attended Capital Prep since eighth grade, «he feels like he has a community of people who care about him.»

«We don't want Smith Leadership Academy to close,» said Ayesha Moore, whose son is in the eighth grade.

After homeschooling her son through eighth grade, Teresa began looking for alternatives.

In 2006, my son came home from his first day of eighth grade and reported that his Language Arts teacher, whom I will call Mr. Sweeney, had made a dire announcement: He... [more]

One father, Freddy Ordoñez, who killed his son and incinerated his body in 2004, only made it to eighth grade.