Sentences with phrase «handful of parents»

Many students warmed to eating fruits and veggies, she said, and a handful of parents expressed disappointment that the offerings would disappear.

26 similar schools, because there are more than just a handful of parents who have enough money to send their babies to a school to teach them how to play.

Only a handful of parents have chosen these names for babies this year and you might like to be one of them

Although a handful of parents adopted Izora as a boy's name in 2003, the trend just never picked up and neither has it as a girl's name.

A handful of parents that I know sometimes just stay at home rather than having to deal with setting up the stroller and taking their kids out for a stroll.

But it was a handful of parents, teachers and friends whose emotional pleas attracted the attention and applause of those in Legislature Chambers.

Dennis King, who heads UNICEF's polio eradication unit in Pakistan, says that in September a handful of parents refused vaccines for their children after hearing of the scheme, but the impact appears relatively small.

Our Parenting Paths week celebrates a handful of parents who've listened to their intuition and gone their own way.

At the end of each grading period, use the home address information to send a postcard to a handful of parents to inform them about how well their child is doing.

But our study also uncovered a handful of parent niches — six of them to be precise.

On a Thursday evening in October, Thomas had kept her promise to volunteer: she and her son were among a handful of parents and students who came to the school to help evaluate the graduation project proposals of the first senior class.

It can be frustrating to incorporate these methods and have only a handful of parents utilize them.

We witnessed plenty of teachers with smiles on their faces along with a handful of parents being readily welcomed into classrooms.

Updated after the jump: The Weekly gives a play - by - play of a long, passionate night — with testimonies from nearby charter schools, a few crazies and a handful of parents who say they were duped into signing the «Parent Trick - er» petition.

The school is nearly tripling its enrollment next year, and its plans for handling that growth formed the majority of a public hearing on the 2012 - 13 budget Monday night that took the form of a conversation between board members, the school business manager and a handful of parents and reporters.

A decade ago, only a handful of parents were actively involved in the school.

A mother from Compton, Esther Covarrubias, was one of a handful of parents who are members of the Parent Power Network in LA who addressed the state Board of Education.

Indeed, all but a handful of parents we interviewed articulated how and why they value more racially and ethnically diverse classrooms, with many citing the fact they were rearing children in New York City and not a lily - white suburb as evidence of their openness to living and educating their children in more diverse contexts, even as they were enrolling their children in racially / ethnically segregated schools.

A handful of parents, including author Michael Tisserand, provided...

Yet, is it not possible that a handful of parents save remarks for a good friend?

I attended the parent - teacher conference and saw a handful of parents.