Sentences with phrase «few children from»

I've been a teacher for a few years now, so I've come across quite a few children from all walks of life.

He said far too few children from lower - income families attended grammar schools, which the research put down to the fact that, by the time the 11 - plus is taken, 60 per cent of the disadvantaged attainment gap — equivalent to 10 months of learning by this stage — has emerged.

While they may whisk a few children from poverty to greatness, they do not close the attainment gap, and this choice of measure is flattering to the selective areas, since it gives higher weight than most to academic attainment.

Benn questioned the government's commitment to expanding selective education, «despite clear evidence that grammar schools educate few children from poorer backgrounds, damage other local schools, and subject thousands of children to stressful, life - defining, tests when they are only 10».

«Despite the mayor's restorations, the child care system at large is still under siege, with more than 14,000 child care slots lost in the last four years, and 7,000 fewer children from low - income families able to access care next year.»

In Australia, fewer children from provincial and remote areas meet standard Year 7 milestones than their metropolitan counterparts.

South Dakota law defines a Family Child Care Home as one in which care is given on a regular basis for any part of a 24 hour day to 12 or fewer children from more than one unrelated family.

Not exact matches

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

Her work has explored why fewer drugs are developed for children, chronicled the sequencing of her own genome, and followed the manufacturing of a flu shot from egg to pharmacy.

«Their children are going to receive fewer services because of this, because the money has to come from somewhere.»

His wife had just given birth to a baby girl — their first child — and he knew he wanted to take a few months off from his job as an IT manager to spend some time at home.

Few are more at risk in that catastrophe than the children of eastern Aleppo; prevented from going to school or even hospital, as both are deemed too unsafe, they live under constant fear of attack.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

Her older sister Shaha remains captive in Raqqa, and a few weeks ago, an uncle received a call from an IS militant there offering to sell her back for $ 40,000 — without her four children.

With a wife and two young children, Bates wanted to be closer to his original home — which happened to be a few miles from where Mazurek lived in Orange County.

Examples from the last few years include the subprime mortgage crisis; the failure of the Peanut Corporation of America; the 2007 pet food scandal; lead paint on children's toys in 2007; melamine - laced Chinese milk products; contaminants in the drug Heparin; and dioxin - contaminated Irish pork.

Sadly, you also often hear about suicides, and there are few parents I know who don't despair when they see the blue glow from the bedroom where their child should be asleep.

A few notable changes would increase the child tax credit from $ 1,000 to an unspecified amount and create a new $ 500 tax credit for dependents, such as the elderly, who aren't children.

I agree the laissez faire policies of the airlines are despicable, but banning children from first class is unfair, akin to banning free alcohol because of a few ornery drunks.

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

All told, a «generational transfer» of $ 30 trillion in financial and non-financial assets is expected to change hands from U.S. baby boomers to their children over the next few decades.

A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

As a child, I remember walking a few blocks away from my house to wait in a long line to see Mary in a dust cloth hanging on a hook.

After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.

Here are a few helpful tips that I've gathered from three separate Counseling journals about how to help your children in both the dying process and in death.

But from asking other parents, librarians, and teachers, here are a few books for three different young age groups that you might enjoy with your children:

You «christians» are nothing more than hypocritical sunday christians who go to church, put on a face for a few hours per week, then come home and BEAT YOUR CHILDREN because you say the bible says to use the «Rod»... Do I speak from experience?

This access, along with the sanitation and hygiene training provided, lead to better educated children; stronger crops; fewer deaths from water - related diseases; and more empowered women.

I now meet very few churchgoers who (from the commentary on this page) might be facing serious trouble when the sheep - goat thing happens, or the accounting for every stray word time comes (let alone the millstone thing for people who lead children astray).

AsI came to separate who I was as spirit and soul from my ego or flesh and the latters coping mechanisms the inimacy with a few others became a place i not only went to for encouragement, transparency and to heal that inner child but also a place for clarity, to be remided who I really am, where those who've come to know me see me, help divide through the bone and marrow per se.

Those ministries range from helping the homeless, providing space for ministry classes, providing classes to people in the midst of job transition, place for youth to gather in a safe and supervised environment, the region's largest multi-week summer program for 1000 + children, to name just a few.

The children range in age from a few months to five years old, and they have come because their parents must work or look for work.

The Banu Qurayza eventually surrendered and all the men, apart from a few who converted to Islam, were beheaded, while the women and children were enslaved

Even from a biblical standpoint, the Hebrew God considered burning people an abomination, and that was for just a few moments, why would he then create a place of eternal fiery torment for all his children who disobey?

From this fund, we regularly buy groceries for needy families, make chicken soup for our sick friends, watch the children so a deployed soldier's wife can get a few hours to herself, take blessings baskets to folks who need a smile after life's tripped them up, and numerous other ways of blessing and loving others.

If you are unfamiliar with the happenings in Massachusetts a few years ago, the Catholic Church was forced to withdraw from participation in the foster care and adoption system of the state because of moral objections to having to place children into homosexual households.

(It's an uncomfortable reality, but if complementarians were as consistent in their application of biblically - based pastoral qualifications as they claim to be, a few of their most prominent spokesmen would have had to resign from their pastoral positions when their children left the faith.

And remember the time when We took a covenant from the children of Israel: «You shall worship nothing but Allah and show kindness to parents and to kindred and orphans and the poor, and speak to men kindly and observe Prayer, and pay the Zakat;» then you turned away in aversion, except a few of you.

A few yards away from us, a family was picnicking — three children with their parents.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

yuogot a few years f «education» of psych under your belt... that makes you more knowledgeable than me who has a degree in it and work in the field... go ahead... keep your children away from me if you wish... you are delusional about my work...

He took along his camera for the occasion and had taken pictures of the children just a few hundred yards from the house when they heard the air raid sirens begin to sound.

There appear to be no studies of children brought up by two male parents, and the few studies purporting to show that children with two lesbian mothers are in no way disadvantaged are typically flawed: they are taken from limited samples, have not followed the children's behaviour through time, and have generally been compiled solely on the lesbian parents» opinions.

That is the kind of development that conservatives need to ponder, asking themselves how education can be rescued from the state, without reducing it to a privilege that only a few can afford, and without abandoning the children of wastrels to their fate.

Indeed, few Supreme Court decisions have ever been the object of such instant and severe censure, much of it coming from those who were no particular friends of the unborn child.

Quite a few of us have stable relationships, raise healthy well - educated children, are free from addiction, vote, volunteer and donate to support causes that help make this society work, live in harmony with people who are different from us — I could go on, but you may get the idea that most of us do things most people would call good and have neither the inclination nor the time to do abominable things.

Perhaps if the dictator of your theocracy would step up and do something to stop your priests from raping children the folks at the Empire State Building would be more inclined to honor one of the few truly decent persons to march upon the world stage in your name of late, or ever for that matter.

My readings over the last few years have opened up my thoughts about God and His children — all His children — and the fact that we all share the same breath and that this (in my opinion) comes from God and links us all to Him.

And although my husband and I talked for years about sharing parenting responsibilities, he took only a few days off from work after each of our children was born.