Sentences with phrase «for wealthy kids»

In other words, throwing money at education for wealthy kids is okay, but not poor kids.

Not exact matches

«Buying a neighborhood is probably one of the most important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their means to improve their kids» lives effectively.

One of Torabian's wealthiest clients, who wished to limit the amount of assets being transferred to his kids, chose a graduated approach, providing for the slow release of information about their future inheritance over the course of many years, allowing his children to «have their own experience» with acquiring wealth.

Nobody (including my children) «deserves» to participate in activities they can not pay for just because all of the wealthy kids are able to participate.

If you want to do well by your kids find out what wealthy, educated people (not entertainers) are naming their kids and use those names, at least for the first names.

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

under Wenger, these kids can become great, and for those whose transfer offers we can not resist, the club will grow wealthier for it.

Carrots are extremely nutrient wealthy that however kids will eat them, it's good for his or her health.

«It is not about attacking him but rather asking him to reconsider and not cut funding for kids and seniors while cutting taxes for the wealthy.»

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

A new report released today by a group of education advocates argues that allowing New York City to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for Pre-K would benefit kids across the entire state.

And a wealthy couple entered into a contract giving the man the right to wander one weekend a year in exchange for allowing the missus to bear a fifth child — though after five kids, I imagine the mom might welcome a respite from sex.

I'm 40, work in design / engineering, not wealthy but get bye and provide for my kids.

Dating agency for the wealthy Dating sites for Trekkies, dating site for 11 year olds kids chat rooms for 11 year olds.

Lady Bird abandons her devoted lower - class bestie, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), for a shallow, unambitious rich friend, Jenna (Odeya Rush), and two love interests from the wealthier side of the railroad tracks that divide Sacramento: first Danny (Lucas Hedges), a polite theater kid, then Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), a snobbish rebel rarely seen without a Howard Zinn book in hand.

But while Clueless follows Emma on a point - for - point basis, its biggest similarities are still environmental, in the way the insular aristocrats of a small, wealthy village mirror the spoiled, perky kids of a Beverly Hills high school.

Margaret Blood: In the absence of a public policy commitment, we've allowed the market to take over and provide very high - quality services to a limited number of wealthy children and, for the most part, less - than - quality services to poor children, with lots of kids stuck in between.

The problem, Lenz says, was that he «kept hearing how project - based learning was nice for wealthy, suburban kids, but, «kids in urban settings aren't going to be able to do this kind of work.

A lot of the wealthy kids talk about being in a very competitive academic environment and the difficulty they find caring for each other in such an environment.

Wealthy families can send their kids to prestigious prep schools like Choate, Loomis, or Hotchkiss while families who don't have the same resources are often relegated to the district schools in their cities and towns, even if they're not working for their kids.

To combat this and the wealthy outsiders working day and night to defund, overtest, and demean our schools, Pastors for Oklahoma Kids advocates for kids, encourages our teachers, supports our school support staff & school boards, and educates our communities on what issues face their local schools each electKids advocates for kids, encourages our teachers, supports our school support staff & school boards, and educates our communities on what issues face their local schools each electkids, encourages our teachers, supports our school support staff & school boards, and educates our communities on what issues face their local schools each election.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Peter Cunningham, Education Post — «What begins as a program for low - income kids could become a program for middle - income and even wealthy kids.

And there are plenty of non-wealthy DC parents who are seeking and finding opportunities for their kids, either in their own neighborhoods, in charter schools or in neighborhoods where the wealthy parents choose to avoid public schools.

We eliminated, for instance, Title 1 status because these days, sad to say, the percentage of poor kids a school needs to qualify (I think it's less than 40 percent) means some pretty wealthy schools like Wayzata's and Edina's get Title 1 funding.

The Lakeside School could then hire its own private limousines to take the kids of the very wealthy to and from their private schools - all paid for by Washington state tax payers!

That many an educational leader has used these annual results to push hard conversations (and even harder actions) to ensure we are holding ourselves and each other responsible for educating all kids — not just the kids from wealthier zip codes — to high levels?

By, once again, proposing to slash funding for teachers and after - school programs, Trump is effectively recommending that Congress cut teachers» salaries, increase class sizes, and cancel after - school programming to pay for tax cuts for wealthy parents who can already afford to send their kids to private schools.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

You can start as a kid and hope for that big F1 break, or you can become a wealthy enough to...

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

These schools have become wealthy off our kids» debt... Talk about preparing you for the real world!

NDP: Cancel income splitting for families with kids under the age of 18 but keep it for seniors; eliminate the CEO stock option loophole that allows wealthy CEOs to avoid taxes on 50 % of income received from cashing in company stock (with proceeds invested into eliminating child poverty); increase investment in the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) by 15 % to further support working Canadians who live below the poverty line; introduce income averaging for artists.

ALF can mean multi-million-dollar investments made by financial giants for sophisticated commercial and patent litigation; or it can mean college kids up against a wealthy institution crowd - sourcing their filing fees.