Sentences with phrase «ghetto kids»

Freedom Writers tells the true story of teacher Erin Gruwell and her students — a class of left - behind ghetto kids nobody cared about or believed in — who, in working together, overcame the negative expectations of a school system that had given up on them.

When television came into America, basketball took on the aspect of a glamor sport, and ghetto kids who couldn't afford a catcher's mask and the firstbaseman's mitt and bats and balls, they could all pool together and get a basketball.

But boxing is a sport dominated by ghetto kids who know the ring is their only way out.

and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

«Gone from the public record is the ghetto kid who dreamed of Che Guevara and the Black Panthers, and pinned their posters up in the Wailers» Soul Shack record store; who believed in freedom, and the fighting which it necessitated, and dressed the part on an early album sleeve; whose God was Ras Tafari and whose sacrament was marijuana.

Not exact matches

The same tax - dodging religion whose medæval dogma kept their parents from responsibly using contraception to avoid filling the ghettoes with unwanted, unsupervised, uneducated kids at the least crushing our national economy with welfare burdens and often slaughtering innocents with gun violence gets credit for a happy ending?

Even if theres a few terrorists among the Palestinians, you have no right to stick the entire group all in a walled ghetto, and then proceed to restrict trade and shoot anyone, even little kids, who approach too close to the wall.

Some brilliant teacher or charity or millionaire went into the ghetto and found 100 kids and educated them and turned their lives around.

And usually, those stories end with that person going on and achieving great things and believing that, you know, it's possible for some kids to make it out of the ghetto.

My siblings were more into New Kids on the Block and Dave Mathew's Band so I only remember a couple of PJ songs but I would honestly listen to that over some of the terrible ghetto crap that's somehow popular and called music.

(The joke is that the kids» illegitimate pedigree has made them a trio of potty - mouthed geniuses, whose ghetto antics are compatible with their scholastic pursuits.)

Ball Don't Lie (Unrated) Hoop dreams drama about a 17 year - old white kid (Grayson Boucher) raised in the «hood by a prostitute (Rosanna Arquette) whose only hope of escaping the ghetto rests with making it to the NBA with the help of his cute girlfriend (Kim Hidalgo).

Tye Sheridan (from «Tree of Life» and the upcoming David Gordon Green film, «Joe,» which so far in a brief career makes him three for three in working with terrific filmmakers) and his co-star Jacob Lofland (in his film acting debut) transcend the child actor ghetto (saying they're good for being kid actors is wildly understating it).

But you also believe in the promise of social mobility, and can point to examples of schools — even mediocre ones — that have helped some kids escape the ghetto or the barrio or the reservation.

One likely reason behind the overuse of restraints — the natural rambunctiousness of young men of all races exacerbated by their struggles in learning — is also one of the reasons why they also account for two - thirds of all kids in special ed ghettos.

It is time to stop warehousing kids we deem incapable of learning — and clear out one of the ghettos of American public education.

The law has also forced states to pay more attention to the plight of kids condemned to special ed ghettos.

In fact, especially for kids trapped in special ed ghettos, Ferguson may be a worse district to which to be condemned than St. Louis.

Ferguson - Florissant meted out at least one out - of - school suspension to 11 percent of black children condemned to its special ed ghettos (including kids covered by Section 504 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act); that rate is double the 4.9 percent of black kids condemned to special ed in St. Louis who were suspended once from school.

And thirdly, they defend choice against the entreaties of traditionalists such as the Florida Education Association, the affiliate of both the National Education Association affiliates and the American Federation of Teachers that just filed suit this week against the Sunshine State's expansion of vouchers for kids trapped in special ed ghettos.

But unless we want to move our kids to the ghetto, it's actually a pretty low price as we've lived here for years.

I own several properties in a «ghetto light» area (shootings once a month rather than every week and kids still ride their bikes around during the day).

The ghetto thing is a rivalry between kids of the two schools for which one is worse — they wear it like a badge.

The public schools here are huge and have great subject selections, though they rival each other for «ghetto» status (the kids» words).