Sentences with phrase «kid in a bad neighborhood»

Cornbread is a good kid in a bad neighborhood and he sees basketball as his family's ticket out of poverty.

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Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»

An anonymous HOA member told CBS Sacramento that the letter was worded badly, and that neighborhood kids were allowed to play in the streets.

And it's a story that you hear every once in awhile, of one kid from a really poor family in a bad neighborhood succeeding.

I will remember that in so - called «bad neighborhoods,» most kids turn out just fine with a little guidance.

In the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracIn the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracin low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

If enough avail themselves of those alternative opportunities, especially if the neighborhood school is bad (in any of a dozen ways, including safety, physical plant, etc.), there won't be enough kids left to justify keeping it open.

Today, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, named in honor of Milton and his wife and collaborator Rose, fights America's educational status quo, calling it immoral for sticking the poorest kids from the worst neighborhoods in the worst schools.

«For too long, too many kids have been forced to attend very bad schools, or schools that aren't a good fit for them, just because those happened to be the only schools in their neighborhoods,» said Kyle Olson, executive officer of National School Choice Week.

He's a lauded boxer - in - training who's afraid of stepping into the ring; a straight - laced, head - down kind of kid on a bad block in Bed - Stuy, a neighborhood rife with drugs and violence.

roaringmad you are a fuking idiot when it comes to the breed apparently you have read too many bad articles my son has two pitbulls and a 3 yr» old as well as a 7 yr» old theses dogs are great with kids even in the neighborhood with other kids like any breed they can be bad or good it's all in how they are raised..

Its like putting up with the bad kids in your neighborhood.