Sentences with phrase «kid goes to a good school»

In 2012, Altman said, «If we can keep an accountability system and say, «Here's the bar, and it's set high, and if you can't meet it, someone else is going to run your school, New Orleans could become the only city in the country where every kid goes to a good school.»

Not exact matches

As far as elementary school goes, there is perhaps no better platform for innovation than science fairs, which give kids an opportunity to explore a subject they love, and solve problems of their own design.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

You never once smacked one of those kids, the ones there on full scholarship with visions of patched sport coasts in the Ivory Tower, you never once icily mentioned that you were working full time, going into debt, commuting two hours to school, that you had three small babies at home, that you worked in a fast - paced and exhausting industry under tremendous pressure just to come home, kiss your kids for a brief moment, launching into that thesis until well past midnight, just to get up at 6 the next morning and do it all over again, relentlessly.

You went out the door to work, the kids went to school, the baby went to sleep, and I thought, well, maybe we do know a few things.

Well, if you want to broaden it to an awareness of some manifestation of «cool Christianity,» I think that I started noticing it very early on... such as when I started getting into Christian rock in middle school, or going to concerts and festivals where, alongside the typical Sunday School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup,school, or going to concerts and festivals where, alongside the typical Sunday School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup,School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup, etc..

one of the things that drew me to my current church was that the pastor's kids went to school with mine at the local public school ---- good kids but not perfect, and they are okay with that.

I don't know if it's ever occurred to any of speakers that all those kids are someday going to vote, or might have to figure out their change at the Taco Bell if the computer goes down, or might be passing out pills in the rest home, so the better schooling those kids get now, the more helpful they'll be to them in the future.

Really, who is getting this funding are kids who are already going to private schools, or some of the most well - funded schools in our state.

Now, I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't tempted, but I know that those things never make you feel good even if the tastes bring you back to the school lunches we ate as kids.

It is not too hot or cold, I love all of the new in season produce and the fact that kids go back to school that makes it even better.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

If all goes well, he'll go right into surgery as soon as the season wraps up and the kids go back to school.

Well, here's a kid who's been one of them, who went to their school, who they saw every day.»

If he's the kid sitting in the front constantly raising his hand to ask questions just to show everyone how smart he is — that doesn't go over well in middle school, let alone the NFL.

Better yet, we'll go to our kids» school and join in the little games kids play.

At the same time — if the kids are going to spend a good percentage of their time captive in a school house, then they should not be forced to consume processed crap while there.)

MILLIONS of parents whose faith placed them in the position of not just asking, but demanding under pain of grounding or even corporal punishment, that their grade school children abstain from what others are enjoying, have still raised well adjusted kids who've gone on to be productive, contributing members of society.

And he's made strides in his overall functioning: Went from nonverbal and screaming at 2 to being potty trained at 3, learning to communicate better and coping well with different stimuli, and is going to a regular public school with a little support and doing relatively well, learning to read and write along with the other neurotypical kids.

Going to school in last years jeans with holes in them is not what kids want, keep those for after school clothes to help keep the new ones looking good.

Breakfast and school meals are an education issue; we know that kids who don't have breakfast go to the school nurse more often, they don't have the same level of concentration, they don't do as well in school.

Parents of preschoolers and school - age kids know very well that kids this age don't like going to bed.

Research even shows that when kids have better access to drinking water at school, obesity rates go down.

Officials of radio station WYTZ - FM, better known as Z95, decided «it would be a nice thing to do to purchase the water and let the residents and the kids, before they go back to school, enjoy the water slide, «said Ed Morrison, a station spokesman.

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

As a result, these kids succumb to peer pressure in order to be accepted at school, even if it means going against their better judgment.

I stay home with my kids right now, and I homeschool, but when they are grown I will probably go back to school, and obstetrics is a field I've considered just so that maybe I can make a bit of a good difference, and give women the best of both worlds (like a water birth, in a hospital with a doula or midwife with an OB on staff or back up in case something went wrong.)

A visit to your pediatrician is usually a good first step when your kids don't want to go to school.

Here is a new piece from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, who has written some popular posts, including «Why so many kids can't sit still in school today,» as well as «The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class» and «A therapist goes to middle school and tries to sit still.

I truly believe, if any parent wants the best for their kids, espically for school lunches, they should pack a lunch for the child, then no matter what is being served at the school, you will know what your child is eating, but, if you are to lazy, or have nothing better to do with your time go ahead and complain about all the free stuff your getting from the government, and then complain some more because taxes are being raised and services cut to pay for these lunch freebee ’s

But just ask the kids who played on my soccer teams, especially the players who were told by the town travel soccer club that they weren't good enough to play travel soccer but who, after playing on one my teams, went on to play high school varsity soccer.

Andy — my kids school does provide lowfat choc milk with meals and while I work with my kids to avoid that and chose better... when my 5 and 7 year olds are at school away from mom's eyes they are going to go for the chocolate every time!

I still remember grade six, when I was being tormented at school at every turn, and then my well - meaning parents would send me and my brother to the park on weekend afternoons to go ice skating, where I'd run into the same kids I saw at school.

We've made it through lots of transitions in the last 6 months — started full day nursery school, potty trained, moved into a big kid bed — and although each of those changes had bumps in the road, we are in a good spot except going back to sleep at night.

While your kids may not be too excited to go back to school this year, make their first day back better with this fun little lunch treat.

When my kids went back to school yesterday they all said that it was the best school break ever.

Your analysis of who goes to most of these restaurants (die hards who are not terribly well informed or treat - seekers) strikes me as dead on, and I also had the thought that if the options aren't ordered enough, the project might be conveniently tabled (as I think often happens in the school food reform world, too, with healthier entrees that kids are afraid to try.)

Some schools have on - site programs as well to avoid kids going home to an empty house until parents get off work.

Or «well you taught your kids their alphabet and how to eat at the table surely you can teach them through elementary school» it really diminishes the work teachers go through to become teachers.

While they suggest that kids (of all ages) should have a good amount of downtime every day — part of the Challenge Success «PDF» mantra (playtime, downtime, family time)-- the reality is that many students today go from school to activities to homework with substantial reductions in daily downtime.

I am wondering when educators — EDUCATORS... SCHOOLS — are going to stand up as adults and say, «Hey, sorry you don't like this food, kids, but this what we know to be healthy and the best form of nutrition for performing well in school.

Hello im 38 year old female and over weight but I know its all the cokes i drink and should cut down.But I don't eat veggie or fruits.I might eat a apple but I don't like none of it really.I eat corn and taters buts thats it.When i was like 9 my school had this rule that you had to eat all veggie and fruits or you sat there till you was done.Let just say I didn't make good grades cause I was always in the lunch room till the end of the day or if i did force them down i'd get sick.My mom talk to the school after coming home sick all week.So to get them to stop doing that my mom had to pack my lunch.Well alot of kids started packing there lunch to and they stop that rule cause nobody was getting school foods and lost alot of money.Every since then i can't put veggie of fruit in my mouth but corn, taters, and a apple.What should i do to get health without eatting veggie and fruits or im I to far gone to help.thanks

Our kids will go to any school and do well... will know how to fall in love and love unconditionally... will cry and never feel less for it... will never fear to be who they are, because they see joy and power in being themselves.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

«Nobody else is going to bring adult behavior to the school board then it is my civic duty to try because I care about these kids and I want to help them and if nobody else will, well then an 18 - year - old has to put his life aside for a little bit and kick this guy out,» explained Harig.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

So we'll invest in the early years, help put troubled families back on track, use a pupil premium to make sure kids from the poorest homes go to the best schools not the worst, recognise marriage in the tax system and, most of all, make sure that work really pays for every single person in our country

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

Going back to that question about why you got into science, for example, give your interviewer enough information to help them visualize the family farm where you grew up, and to feel the stress on your family of eight kids as your mom and dad tried to get everyone into school and off to a good start.