Sentences with phrase «even taking your child to school»

Whether you are walking your dog, or even taking your child to school, try to take a few extra minutes to literally stop and smell the peonies.

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Los Angeles (CNN)- Former LAPD Detective Federico Sicard still remembers the Monday he arrived at a school to interview children who said a priest had molested them, even though the visit took place 23 years ago.

Even the Sunday School took its rise in a move to provide the elements of education for the working children of the poor on the only day they were free.

Many of us who've been in school lunch rooms have seen children take fruits and vegetables (even when they're not required to do so, since most schools use «offer versus serve»), yet still leave them untouched on their trays.

Even if you don't have school - age children, the summer months are here for the taking — enjoy every last moment to the full.

If you find some holes in your wardrobe, take your child on a school clothing shopping trip, which will make going back to school even more fun!

Especially since schools will not take children into preschool or kindergarten when they are not potty trained, not to mention that some day cares even have policies against taking children of certain ages in to the school when they are not potty trained as well.

Ideally, your child should reach a little, by taking on new challenges, or by striving to improve study habits or even school goals.

This help from family and caregivers can take older child to the park, to after school activities, to play - dates, or even just out for ice cream!

We have both done these events with younger siblings because there's often no way around it, but even if you could get a friend to take your younger child right outside the door of the school while you get the older one settled it will really make a difference.

Your child will be exposed ONLY to children with his particular diagnosis, which means he will be quite isolated from the general population (this is true to some degree even if the school is eager to take your child on «outings» into the community).

The food was awful, and take - up correspondingly low: only 40 of our pupils out of 400 ate school meals, even though nearly 60 children were entitled to them free of charge.

But the reason why I asked is that I've seen elementary school children take fruits and vegetables in the lunch line — even though they're not required to — but then they leave those foods entirely untouched.

I have never forgotten taking a large group of primary school children to the Arsenal stadium one evening, where Arsène Wenger gave them a very interesting talk about how he had learned English.

School administrators are closely watching a letter campaign that's taking place in the days before school starts that could lead to even more children opting out of state standardized School administrators are closely watching a letter campaign that's taking place in the days before school starts that could lead to even more children opting out of state standardized school starts that could lead to even more children opting out of state standardized tests.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued state, local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

I don't even want to take my children to school.»

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

Surprisingly, it is not just high school athletes suffering concussions; athletes ages 12 to 15 make up almost half (47 percent) of the sports - related concussions seen in the ER, a statistic made even more disturbing by the knowledge that younger children with concussions take a longer time to recover than older children.

So their father would take them to school in the morning, and then in the evening I would get them early from a child minder who would pick them up from school for me 4 days a week, and then I would pick them up on the Friday.

First, even if variation in intelligence is taken to be largely genetically determined — which they argue is increasingly disputable — it still remains the case that children's family environments and resources are major factors in how well they do academically at school.

Even as a child I was so tired in the mornings that I would have to take a nap in the afternoon after school every day.

You have a freer schedule, you can go out in the evening dancing, or even have a hobby that isn't limited to baking cupcakes for your child's school or watching Netflix, a real hobby that takes you out of the house.

Even the few minutes he spends with his three children are set up as appointments, ever in flux: arriving at the home of his second ex, Kelly (Robin Wright Penn), to take his son to school, he hears, «She says it's okay for you to go in the house instead of using the cell phone.»

Even after the Walls settle down in a shack with no electricity or running water in Rex's poverty - stricken West Virginia hometown, the parents routinely forget to buy food for their children and neglect to enroll them in school, forcing the siblings to take care of these basic necessities themselves.

Thanks to Heritage Schools, half a million children have already taken part in a range of stimulating projects including creating local heritage films, community exhibitions and some have even campaigned to have their local war memorial included on the National Heritage List for England.

Even if local personnel policies might partially buffer the impact on low - income children by re-assigning ineffective teachers and paying effective teachers to take their place, such salary incentives are expensive (with the costs being borne disproportionately by schools serving low - income children) and have been only partially effective where they have been tried.

«This world is so hurried up, go, go, go all the time, that we need to teach our children to stop and take time to smell the roses, even in the structured environment that school offers.»

Bowers's students spent a morning planting trees in a city park, and they made and distributed several hundred bookmarks that list steps even children can take to protect the environment — things like turning off the lights or taking the school bus instead of getting a ride from Mom or Dad.

«With today's concerns about growing educational disparities, we carry an even greater responsibility as educators to make decisions and take actions that contribute to more equitable educational opportunities for children and families in and out of school.»

«But some people don't get it even now, I still have parents who want to take children on holidays during school time and students who are not behaving how we want them to.

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

Through the «Parent Portal», guardians with a child attending Stephen Gaynor can login and immediately see their child's academic progress, take a look at their in school and after school calendar, RSVP to events, and even speak with other parents who have children in the same class.

Children are asked to read and then answer multiple - choice questions about such topics as taking a hike in the Appalachians even though they've never left the sidewalks of New York, nor studied the Appalachians in school.

If you're a parent like me, at the start of each school year you eagerly learn all about the course content your child will study, the enrichment opportunities available, the field trips your child will take, and the school supplies your child will need as you brace yourself for that evening's trip to Staples.

Here are a few action educators must take outside the schoolhouse even as they continue to help children in their schools:

«This is the first time that we have learned about this, and it gravely concerns me because there are several deaf and hard - of - hearing children who take advantage of the voucher to attend schools the parent (s) choose, or even deaf parents choosing to send their hearing children to school using vouchers,» said Schmidt.

Even more telling, their concern assumes that there would be a mass exodus from the public schools if families were given the option to leave and take the funds dedicated to their child with them.

Of course, some children from impoverished backgrounds will outperform typical children from literate and secure backgrounds, but on average, the extent to which children come to school prepared to take advantage of what school has to offer is a more important predictor than what even the best school can do.

For example, if you and some colleagues opened the school, you would decide to accept all children, or even take over an existing school.

Schools... can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

We all know, even if some folks are loath to admit it, that in order for a child to take full advantage of educational opportunities he or she needs to come to school healthy, with a full stomach, and from a safe place to live.

Should an exceptionally successful school (on student outcomes) be put under pressure to improve staff wellbeing and development even if this takes the edge off their speed of improvement for children?

As we visited Catholic schools in Port - au - Prince, I found myself wishing there was something we could do to provide these children with the type of education that many of us experienced, an education where so many things are provided and even taken for granted.

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).

In fact, to even suggest that Achievement First, Inc. should take the place of the Clark School is an incredible insult, especially to the Latino community and to parents whose children need additional special education services.

While it is perfectly reasonable that the State Board of Education has a policy in place that seeks to ensure that all children enrolled in public schools take the Mastery Test, the Board and the agency it manages has an even greater obligation to provide parents, students, teachers and the public with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Chairman of the State Board of Education, Attorney Alan Taylor, agreed with the Commissioner and went even further stating that there was no legal action that the state or school district could take to punish a parent or child who opted out of the Common Core SBAC test.

Some teachers, at risk of retribution from the Malloy administration, are even helping parents understand that they have an inalienable and constitutionally guaranteed right to opt their children out of these destructive tests and that there is no law, regulation or policy that allows the state or local school districts to punish a child or parent who instructs their school that their child will not be taking the SBAC Test.

A government spokesperson told Schools Week that it was «looking at a range of options to allow more children to access a school that lets them rise as far as their talents will take them» and that proposals will be set out «in due course», with some government insiders claiming plans may even be outlined before the end of the week.