Sentences with phrase «just kids in the community»

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«These teachers were fantastic; kept our kids safe, kept my daughter calm, sitting in a closet for two and a half hours and they're coming back to something I couldn't imagine — coming back to work, so just want to show them a little love, let them know the community's with them,» Kravitz added.

Haley Zink, a 21 - year - old community college student who helped to organize a «sibling march» in St. Louis, Missouri, had a message for those who think this movement is just a bunch of loud kids: «I want to it be clear to everyone that, no we are not.»

but it does happens mostly in rural area areas or at very poor communities where girls have no education but just work at their homes or farm fields or when families are poor and needed the marriage money to support the rest of kids they have..

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

But others are much more worldly in their investments, where being even just a superficial church going, one gets club membership with community status, feelings of belonging, feelings of self - worth, feeling of being upright and hopes that their kids will grow up moral and they can stave off a very more tragedies of illness and disasters through god - magic.

Of course the littlest one decided that it would be a good day for a «splash day,» where we fill up the inflatable pool (our HOA doesn't allow a permanent one in the yard, and the community pool has closed for the season), some beach toys, and just let the kids have at it.

She heads Good Enough Mother, a parenting community for moms who understand the challenges of kids who think they know everything but won't eat anything, neighbors for whom failure is not an option and mothers - in - law who just KNOW you're doing it wrong.

It's not just one big pool like you'd see in a your local community centre — Fern offers two full size pools PLUS a kid's wading pool perfect for little ones.

Speaking about the way she wants to raise her children, the author and actress has said, «It really is about the tone you set, and you can talk until you're blue in the face, but kids watch what you do every single day of your life, all day long, and that behavior and that example and that love and community and honesty is just, I think, what's making everything feel safe for my kids.»

«A lot of kids just leave the schools, and they do n`t have anywhere to go; it «s a very serious problem, «said Nancy Johnstone, director of Youth Guidance, a counseling program located in eight poor communities.

I beg to ask where is the privacy of these kids (this is not just an adoptive community problem) Yet it seems a bit too much in the adoptive community.

«Moms and dads across America want the best for their kids and in some communities that's just not possible,» says Grimmer, who is also the father of two daughters.

Now, as the online community is introduced to consumers much earlier in life than even just five years ago, we see kids graduating from MySpace to the very casual dating and down market hook - up sites, then up to Match.com and finally to Perfectmatch and eHarmony.

So you won't find a bunch of kids in our 50 - Plus community - just quality singles in a mature age group that are seeking genuine lasting connections.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

«It was just really done as an opportunity for the kids to take a bit of interest and ownership in their community.»

Moran says about parents and community members who acknowledge students on social media, «It's a way of both positively reinforcing the work, [and] letting the kids really feel that their work is seen beyond just the sort of face - to - face things that happen in more traditional media.»

For instance, just in the past year, Harvard's Tony Wagner coauthored Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era; Richard Milner of U. Pittsburgh authored Rac (e) ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms; and Columbia University's Tom Bailey copublished Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.

Because, it is about building kids» capacity to be part of a community, to work as a team, to collaborate, be creative, not about just making money — that might be something that they do in the process — but it's about giving back to the community and creating something that benefits the community.

«These barriers definitely contribute to kids leaving school and just staying in the community,» Uibo says.

It speaks to the conviction that all of the children in a community or a country are «our kids» and that we should want the very best for them just as we do for our own flesh and blood.

«As a parent and having been a UChicago Charter parent before, I'm just excited to teach parents how to navigate school for their kids in a way that supports the family, the student, and the community,» said Maxwell.

«Kindergarten kids learning in front of a monitor — that's just wrong,» said Maryelen Calderwood, an elected school committee member in Greenfield, Mass., who unsuccessfully tried to stop K12 from contracting with her community to create New England's first virtual public school last year.

So, for example, instead of just utilizing money to arm police officers in schools, we also are allowing individual school communities to make decisions about putting more mental health for students, to provide advocacy in the support system and not just move kids out of school or automatically engage them in the judicial system that we know can happen too often.

For instance, she doesn't just give books away to lower - income kids, but rather to any child in a participating community who signs up.

I mean, do we really have to play this game, where because I'm who I am and you're who you are, we pretend that the word «fuck» doesn't exist, and while we're at it, that the action that underlies the word doesn't exist, and I just puke up a bunch of junk about how some teacher changed my life by teaching me how Shakespeare was actually the world's first rapper, or about the time I was doing community service with a bunch of homeless teenagers dying of cancer or something and felt the deep call of selfless action, or else I pull out all the stops and give you the play - by - play sob story of what happened to my dad, or some other terrible heartbreak of a thing that makes you feel so bummed out you figure, what the hell, we've got quotas after all, and this kid's gotten screwed over enough, so you give me the big old stamp of approval and a fat envelope in the mail come April?

I can't understand why kids are so reluctant to use easy cost saving measures like community college (instruction just as good as four year), testing in lieu of classes for credit, summer classes, good public schools instead of private, online courses (more convenient but NOT easier).

In all, OMSI mini maker faire is great for parents and kids, and it is just as great for our communities to meet each other and create inspired works together.

You should be aware that if you have kids here, in case you separate or divorced, you can't just go back to your country with your kids without the permission of the other parent or the decision of the guardianship authorities of your community.

You should be aware that if you have kids here, in case you sepa - rate or divorced, you can't just go back to your country with your kids without the permission of the other parent or the decision of the guardianship authorities of your community.

We're raising our kids here and we're living through it just like everyone else in the community.

I'd seen this film a long time ago but when I saw it again this time, I had a much better appreciation of the Aboriginal way of being and the thing that really struck me in this film was there was a section of the film where they were going to do this aeroplane song and dance corroboree and they were getting ready for it and you know there are all these Elders and you know very wise and respected Elders you know making their costumes they were gonna wear, talking about how it was gonna be and in amongst all these people there's little children you know of one 1 or 2 or 3 years old who were just crawling around and you know watching and listening, trying on their head - dresses and they were completely welcomed into that adult community, there was no sense of, you know this is grown up business, you kids go off and play which is very much the western model.

Although our research is still a work in progress, we are beginning to see more clearly the picture of life faced by our [Yamaji] children within schooling and community settings... This information is just the beginning and it was only possible with the strength and support of the Yamaji community, [who are] already leaders in making things better for their kids.