Sentences with phrase «girl schools seemed»

«Twenty years ago, all - girl schools seemed headed for extinction, a footnote in the story of American education,» writes Ilana DeBare, author of Where Girls Come First, an account of public and private schools for girls going back into the 1800s.

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The White House seems not to have denied the incident to the Times, only clarifying that the girls» track team was from another school.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

And now there seems to be an epidemic of cosmetic surgery — girls are getting breast jobs for high school graduation.

Even though Hansel might seem like a confident cross-country robot sent from the future, she's still just a girl in high school.

It seems both like yesterday and also so far away that we sent the girls off to three separate schools for the first time.

This one might seem really dull, but I used to spend a fair amount on books and I've basically stopped since the girls came along, I've got a list as long as my arms of things I want to read and since BB is starting school in September, I'll have more time to read.

The latter interview was especially interesting as the girls gently — but persistently — ask questions about the Snapple vending machines placed in the schools; the city officials seemed to visibly squirm before the cameras as they tried to justify the juice sales on the grounds that the revenues support school athletic teams.

In terms of the cons to sending your child to an all - girls school, Hill notes, «some girls may struggle with self - identity and compare themselves to other girls who seem more popular in their program.»

After collecting information from school counselors about any social difficulties experienced by the girls, Skuse's group found that 40 % with the maternal X chromosome were likely to have problems at school, versus only 16 % of girls with the paternal X. «It seemed to us there could only be a genetic explanation for that,» Skuse says, because he says there were no other differences between the two sets of girls.

Considering the 90 - degree heat, it seems unfair to limit what girls can wear to school.

This may seem sad and school girl - ish but it was just so exciting!

The main story follows Noah (Jeff Branson), the swim class teacher and his bout with depression; Jordan (Jess Weixler), a girl who works part time in a casino and part time as an exotic dancer; Amy (Paget Brewster), a high school math teacher whose husband left her for another teacher; and a young man (I never did catch his name) who seems to live at the casino where Jordan works and who meets and beds Amy.

But Jerry fixates on the crime, convinced by a seeming clue in Ginny's school artwork that he has failed to make good on his vow to the girl's parents (Michael O'Keefe and Patricia Clarkson).

While most adults in the audience will wonder why Mia would ever seriously consider a relationship with a guy who is so self - centered to get mad at her for desiring to relocate 3,000 miles away to go to the most prestigious music school in the country, the film seems to make the false presumption that younger girls will find it more romantic for the boyfriend to be upset that they will be apart and have to Skype to keep in touch (something he seems to think is the worst possible case scenario, even though he already spends several weeks a year on the road performing gigs).

Smart, chaste and brimming with a freshly minted sexuality that she seems disarmingly unaware of, every boy (and perhaps a few of the girls) in school can't help but lusting over the teen dream.

Everything seems to be idyllic for the two until the young girl gets into a fight with a boy at school and humiliates and hurts her adversary in the process.

Mavis Gary (Theron) considered high school to be her glory days, and it seems like she's never stopped acting like the popular girl she once was.

Esti seems on the surface to be a devoted and proper wife, with a life of her own and a passion for her job as a teacher at a local girl's school.

«Mary and the Witch's Flower,» a tale of a little girl (voiced by Ruby Barnhill in the dubbed version I saw; a subtitled version is also screening) who is transported to a school for witches, might seem to be following another, Hogwarts - ish path.

Apart from her best friend, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), she seems to be the only non-rich student at the all girls Catholic school.

All in all, she does the best with the material she's given, but it all just seems like a rote restaging of things we've seen before, with little to differentiate it from its source material — we've even see «Chloe Moretz dealing with mean girls in a high school» just a month ago in Kick - Ass 2.

From the celebrated film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old taboo, and students are not immune to the cultural shift.

Fortunately for me, middle - school girls seem to like food on a par with boys, and soon, despite wonderful displays of assertiveness, their lunches got their attention.

On the first day of orientation for her all - girls school on Wednesday, Principal Liz Hicks seemed relatively calm.

However, of the students that remain in the no - excuses charter schools, it seems likely that it is the girls that will face the biggest negative consequences.

To a young French girl, Weston, a wealthy Boston suburb, seemed an American dream — green, manicured, spread out, with huge gorgeous homes and well - to - do, well - schooled families.

The convent, at first, seems similar to an all - girls high school, complete with cutely named factions.

Although Matsuoka and Izumi seem willing and able to take over the job of dressing up as girls and cheering at school events, they're not exactly what you'd call «friends.»

Baen, and probably Harlequin (I don't do romance so have no idea, but I seem to remember the girls in school fawning over Harlequin when they grew out of the Sweet Valley High stuff), are probably about the only Publishers that have an actual fan base.

Starry ☆ Sky now joins Digital Manga's other series such as Itazura na Kiss and The Beautiful Skies of Houou High, which seem much more suiting company to this series about a girl pined after by a group of attractive young men in private school.

Winner: Persona 5 As a high schooler who is really concerned about getting good grades, figuring out which girl to date, and trying to get a part - time job, it seems only natural that my biggest worry would be what time we're going to the Metaverse to change people's hearts by fighting the monsters inside of them.

This immediately raises a red flag for me - you can't change people's sexuality and it seems odd that there'd be so many girls who like girls in a school environment, considering the statistics.

(and a peer review process that is increasingly becoming a good old boys and girls club) As a retired high school teacher, the foundation to what I taught seems to be crumbling and yes it does make me angry.

Parental support seems to be protective against maladjustment, especially in peer - victimized girls entering secondary school.