Sentences with phrase «hold school because»

At some point it is not affordable to hold school because it is a religious holiday and many would be absent.

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@Really?!?!?, the «making crap up» was directed at the idea that christian's are somehow being turned into second - class citizens because they will not be allowed to rent gym space at the Elementary School to hold a revival.

High school had clearly been holding me in, because adult life was going to be glorious.

Children lose 272 million school days each year because of diseases related to unsafe water and poor hygiene; they lose 200 million years of school days because of worm - related illnesses, which can be held at bay with good sanitation practices.

The idea of Satan is something talked about frequently in Sunday School — largely because the concept of a mystical super villain is a good way to hold the attention of 7 - year - olds.

I often hear tales of clergy believing one thing, but preaching something entirely different because their congregation have very firmly held views on what they're willing to hear... and that's often what they were taught in Sunday school as children — they're 80 now.

I often hear that schools can't implement salad bars because it takes too long for the students to make their choices and that it «holds - up» the line.

Before he could reach for the school's front door, a group of 12 - year - olds — held back three school years because of serious behavioral problems — would pounce on and strip him.

We have no idea because the last time he held a college job was in the late - 1980s at a school that doesn't actually house a football program anymore (the U. of Pacific).

However, if a kid has an offer, but he hasn't visited and the coaches have no evidence his family is onboard with a decision to commit, I can totally see the coaches saying, «Hey, let's hold off until you visit the school with your family, because this is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make in your life and we want to make sure you and your family have all the information you need and all your questions answered before you make it.»

I was holding a 6354 dollar check to give him at his work gate Christmas day with the first vacation that any one knew of since his sophmore year of high school He had been violent the last eleven years the last Christmas in 2008 forcing two men out of the back of his fathers car at 45 mph on asphalt trying to get him into work and choking his father unconsious with another man hitting on the hood of the car from inside, He was just not being in the least cooperative with any thing he had not since 2001, Things were deadly by that point all because he wanted it his way.

Schools take action because they understand something that parents can lose sight of: kids make the choice to do these things, and as a result, they should be held accountable.

I'm hoping to hold additional screenings in my community to help fuel the discussion because I think this movie is a great way to get people together to start talking about how to create real changes in school food!

Juniors were held at their lunch period for at least double their usual time because of a fight in another part of the school, according to the witness.

But it was put on hold because of the pending acquisition of 44 acres from Community High School District 99.

It seems the ridiculously short lunch is a problem in many schools, mostly because there are so many kids and the lunchroom can only hold 1/5 of them at a time.

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

I think that's because (a) the SNA holds a particularly respected position as the representative of the very people serving school meals and (b) what the SNA is asking for costs nothing and creates an easier path for school food workers and Congress, whereas supporting healthier school meals is a harder road (for some schools) that may require more funding from an unwilling Congress.

Where Lego adventurers boldly go where no little plastic (wo) man has gone before and a little girl clamors for an old school calculator and holds it up to her ear because she thinks it's a smart phone.

A lot of parents hold off on buying school shoes because they believe that their child's feet are going to grow between buying the shoes and them being needed.

Should I say Nana Akufo - Addo has built a hospital or should I say he has built a school, so when people ask those things, maybe because they don't know the type of magazines I publish... so if Nana is President of Ghana, and he is producing these things and I don't publicize it then you can hold me that I am very unfair so we are looking at the man who is in government now and like I explained, when [John] Kufuor was there that was exactly what we did for him, we did same for Rawlings,» he added.

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

«The Government needs to take the lead in ensuring that across all schools no teacher or pupil is held back or denied the opportunity to succeed because of their colour or ethnic, cultural or religious background.»

The walkout is being held today, because it is the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

«People have every right to hold me absolutely and totally accountable for everything that happens in their school system, and if they find my efforts insufficient, they literally can choose to remove me, because we have a scheduled election,» de Blasio told state lawmakers, among them Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Denny «Herman» Farrell (D - Manhattan).

«There is already a mechanism in place to hold charter schools accountable; Mike Mulgrew should know this better than anyone because his was closed.

«I'm all for holding the Mayor's feet to the fire because we need better schools for all families.

When they came to me about the university at Okerenkoko, I said they should hold on because we need to build the Oron school to the standard that we need in order to be able to compete with global institutions.

ALBANY — A Staten Island senator is holding up a bill to reduce New York City's speed limit because he wants city officials to get on board with his longstanding proposal to require stop signs around schools.

But because the GOP holds a precarious 32 - 30 advantage, Zeldin and Martins should get help in delivering school aid and pork - barrel spending to their home districts.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

Spruce can hold only two classes per grade but this fall will take in four kindergartens because of the swelling population downtown, which parents fear could put the middle school in jeopardy down the road.

In the case of the Canandaigua lab, no RFP was held because the school was approached out of the blue and the Fuller Road Management board determined that the $ 2.75 million offer was the best it could do.

«Universal free school meal provision was only a recommendation,» Dimbleby says now, «because Gove had told us that it would take too long to secure the money and that would hold up the whole report.»

Those victories were made possible because throughout these last four years, the UFT held true to what we knew schools and teachers needed to succeed.

That problem arises, he believes, because «way too much science is taught in a dull way» and fails to hold the attention of students in secondary school, when they are beginning to think about possible careers.

After an analysis of potential workers» compensation claims in sedentary environments across several states, Drexel University's Natalie Pedersen, JD, an assistant professor of legal studies in the LeBow College of Business, and Lisa Eisenberg, JD, a graduate of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and current judicial clerk, claim employers should be held accountable because it will force them to reduce such harms in their work environments.

I missed experiencing the greatest awe - inspiring wonder that nature has to offer because our local school officials — who felt eclipse watching was too dangerous for children and did not want to be held liable in the event of an injury — had issued overly cautious warnings.

Studies show many people can't remember the last time they had to write something by hand and many children don't know how to properly hold a pen or pencil because it's barely taught in school.

Because the school is new and is still held in the founder's house, it follows the WECA (Wisconsin Early Childhood Association) requirements for meals and snacks.

I draw the comparison because Moyle, like Hughes (and unlike the hucksters behind the countless failed high - school romps of the past two decades), has empathy for his young characters — though Hughes was less reluctant to hold them accountable for their angst, marking Moyle as the bigger suck - up — and because he leans towards having an aesthetic, especially in Empire Records, that favours, as Hughes's does, quarantining close - ups and medium close - ups.

Teaching lower - achieving students — whether because teachers find it more difficult or less rewarding — is a strong factor in decisions to leave Texas public schools, and the magnitude of the effect holds across the full range of teachers» experience levels.

Because these schools were popular, applicants exceeded space available and lotteries were held to determine which students were admitted.

If Republicans want an advantage, Spellings argues, they need to push choice and the hold - schools - accountable platform because «that's safe territory for Republicans of all stripes,» she said.

Focusing on lottery applicants is nonetheless useful because it enables us to hold constant whatever unmeasured differences lead some students to apply for a seat in a charter school and others to remain within the district.

Because teachers were considering intangible factors, even when race, gender, family income, and academic achievement are the same, there was no way to isolate the effect of being held back, much less to make reasonable conclusions about the effects of retention on a student's academic achievement or the probability of his dropping out of high school.

Charter advocates in the Bay Area seem to subscribe to a «survival of the fittest» ethic, which holds that because running a successful charter school requires so much capacity, if potential operators are scared off from pursuing an application without a lot of handholding, it's probably for the best.

At a recent conference on school choice worldwide held at the Cato Institute in Washington, Mr. Tooley called his research results potentially explosive because...

«I can recall taking [her course on school reform] and really learning how to defend my positions because Kay always had some question about why I was taking a certain position... she taught me that challenging students to face the values they hold closest to their heart is important in developing their potential as leaders.»