Sentences with phrase «grammar schools feel»

It seems like a lot of people who went to grammar schools feel they were blessed with a good school, and deserved that blessing.

Much of the dialogue has that grammar school feel of trying one - ups - manship that was tiring in grammar school (except for the remarkable Lee Ermey, who stills radiates like nuclear meltdown).

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The mindset that everyone should be a winner, that you should be rewarded just for showing up, and that going above and beyond to avoid hurt feelings might work in grammar school.

Chris King, chair of HMC and headmaster of Leicester Grammar School, said: «The findings of this poll may surprise teachers and parents, but it will help them understand the pressures young people feel in the digital age.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

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