Sentences with phrase «fight by the parents of children»

No example of this is the fight by the parents of children at Palm Lane Elementary School, a currently traditional public school that has been failing for over a decade.

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By decimating the British forces with a tornado your God basically acted like a parent who, upon seeing two of his children fighting, decided to drop kick one in order to stop the brawl.

Rudd «Roots Parents Rudd «Roots Parents supports the grassroots efforts of parent advocates by offering valuable information on how to fight for healthy changes in their children's schools.

Some parents start out by setting firm limits, but the extreme tantrums and opposition of their RAD child may lead them to back off or find a «work around,» so that every interaction with their child is not a fight.

Even parents with high levels of anger can «encapsulate» their conflict, creating a protective buffer for the children by saving arguments or fights for a mediator's office — or a scheduled meeting at a coffee shop.

Organized by longtime pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools, the rally gleefully plundered the rhetoric of the mayor's 2013 campaign — with children and parents outfitted in T - shirts reading «I fight to end inequality» and slogans bemoaning the «tale of two school systems.»

From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

Still showing outward public collaboration with the Gates Foundation, funder of ill - conceived high stakes testing and teacher evaluation policies, continued to prompt parents to opt their children out of standardized tests and by this time, the punitive practices imbued by these policies have sent invaluable educators leaving the profession or fighting for MORE.

And one way we are doing that is by empowering and engaging parents of our most vulnerable students, as well as working with local leaders and civil rights groups, in the fight to improve their child's elementary and secondary education and helping them to hold school systems accountable when it comes to their children's future.

In a school system under - funded by both the State of Connecticut and the local community, Daniel Kwet and his colleagues are not only fighting for children but provide a powerful inspiration for the rest of us who are advocating on behalf of students, parents, teachers and our public schools;

While clarifying the First Amendment rights of teachers, Connecticut's teacher unions should also join their fellow unions from around the country in making it extremely clear that the union will aggressively fight any efforts by a school district to harass, discipline or terminate any teacher who speaks out about a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core tests.

«Certainly a senator that witnessed the ugly tactics and massive resources of the unions at the Capitol would not suggest that the same battle be fought at the local level by parents in a failing school trying to find a better future for their children,» he said.

Dow Jones Business News reports — via Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg at the Wall Street Journal — that Barnes & Noble, «which is fighting to boost store traffic, is launching a program that lets parents personalize books by inserting the names and photos of their children into starring roles in some of the country's leading children's titles.»

Last January, Metropolis publicized the plight of parents fighting for access to children abducted by Japanese spouses.

I thought of similar cases — people fighting for custody not to get custody but to bargain the children for a better property settlement; filing for custody when the other parent asks for an increase in child support; refusing reasonable settlement to run up fees for the other party when you have rich parents to pay on your side; and most commonly, hostility created between people by aggressive lawyers.

The children do not need parents who fight and argue with each other in front of the children, or fight «through the children» by, for example, criticizing the absent parent in front of the children, or offering the damning comment, «You're just like your Father / Mother.»

Even parents with high levels of anger can «encapsulate» their conflict, creating a protective buffer for the children by saving arguments or fights for a mediator's office — or a scheduled meeting at a coffee shop.

The creation of a parenting plan during a divorce process is an important strategy in working out issues like child custody and the avoidance of fights by the separating parents, both legal and otherwise, over matters that were already decided.

-- Rebecca Eanes, author of Positive Parenting «Whether you are just beginning to contemplate having a second child or you are already frustrated by nonstop sibling fighting, this book is for you.

And, children may even unconsciously seek to re-involve you and the other parent in dialog (even a «fight» can be perceived by children as a re-connecting of their estranged parents), with some hoped - for chance for your reconciliation.

When parents fight with each other, their children are torn apart by the «tug of war» and often carry the battle scars far into their adult years.