Sentences with phrase «kids going to high school»

When German kids go to high school and college, alcohol isn't a big deal to them because they have been «trained» so to speak by their parents for many years beforehand.

Not exact matches

«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.

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

«I'd talk to a group in Tennessee, and there are 59 kids in the audience who all go to different high schools.

If high school kids are willing to go spend an hour each day being taught those things, I can't imagine why anyone would think that's a bad thing.

I went to Mass every week as a kid and attended a Jesuit high school and college.

Let's go to preschool graduations and high school graduations and university graduations, and then let's stand in our empty nest house someday and cry because it went too fast and try to figure out the rest of it, and then laugh because there is still so much life ahead, who are we kidding?

Do you REALLY think a high school grad or dropout is going to raise a kid who'll value education?

High school kids need to realize that employers do take into consideration where you went to college.

My kids went to an inner city high school in Omaha, Nebraska.

Here, kids go crazy in high school and college because it is something they never had access to.

«Whether you attend the concert or bring your family to the full - day Saturday taste, we want everyone to know we do this for the kids - the funds we raise from summer high school classes and public events like TOTV go right back to school sites for visual and performing arts and curriculum support to benefit students,» he added.

So many parents don't realize that their kids are going to burn out in high school.

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 the Tigers truly rate Madrigal or anyone else as a comparable talent, then go for it, but don't lose out on the top talent because you are tired of drafting pitchers, or because you fall in love with the «potential» of some high school kid who may never learn to hit in pro ball.

If LaVar Ball really wants to get the JBA flooded with legitimate high school basketball talent, he's going to have to get his hands dirty and talk to these kids face to face.

It was not for a lack of interest at the kids and high school levels, which has seen a significant increase over the last several decades, but due to the implementation of Title IX (more specifically proportionality) and other factors that I rather not go into detail in this article.

With high school football becoming so much popular as you can see high school players are going to different schools like NFL free agency, what Milpitas has built are that these kids that play for the Trojans have been playing together for 8 years since their pop warner days together.

In September, he gave his first six checks to fund two scholarships at St. Anne's - Belfield, the private high school he went to in Charlottesville (even though he and Megan had quietly funded two already, and those kids are about to head off to college).

Floyd played hundreds of rounds on the Enlisted Men's Course at Fort Bragg as a kid, often with soldiers, went to a military boarding school for two years in high school and served in the Army reserves.

Something tells me this kid is going to get beat up in a lot of fights in middle school and high school.

I don't know how long we'll go — if my kids will go to high school or if we'll school all the way — I plan on taking it year by year.

While some stay - at - home moms maintain their title all the way until the kids graduate high school and leave the house, others go back to the workforce, start their own businesses or find new ways to stay home while earning income.

If we do eliminate the a la carte options that kids so love and introduced a single, healthful menu for all students, I wonder whether students on open campuses (i.e., most high schools) who previously had the money to buy those foods would simply leave the program altogether and go elsewhere for their pizza and fries (as many already do).

When I went to high school I did learn things from other kids that at the time I would never had told my parents.

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

High school graduates are half as likely to go into poverty, so when we talk about hunger as an education issue it's really about investing in kids now — investing in this country's future.

I do know that if fuel costs go up to Europian highs it will cost too much to feed the kids school lunch the way they do now, because they wont be able to ship stuff across the country like they do now.

Even though Val and I hadn't been skiing since high school, we decided we were going to teach our kids to ski.

Just a quick post today to tell you about a neat program going on here in Houston in which high schoolers teach other kids about the benefits of healthy eating and regular exercise.

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.

If you are going to argue in the comments section that women can have a high - powered job and school aged kids, please qualify yourself with the age of your kids and the number of hours you work per week.

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.

When teachers and schools are able to convey both of those messages at the same time, that you belong here and this is a place where you are welcome, but also that I have high expectations for your ability to achieve things, and I'm going to give you the right kind of help and support for you to breach those high expectations, those two toolboxes combine to be what is most motivating and inspiring to kids.

Just wait til they go to high school and have to have all the name brand stuff like all the other kids in school.

My kids went back to school this morning and it was bittersweet to see my two children, now both taller than I am, heading off to high school.

«Our kids will go to [Adlai E.] Stevenson High School [in Lincolnshire].»

«If you look at it, taking a kid who's a senior in high school, and changing his eating habits in one year — there's going to be resistance there.

«I'd get kids from local high schools and talk to them about what's going on in the community,» Schulman said.

But if we're doing our job and 100 percent of our kids are walking across that stage and graduating from high school, we're not going to have those problems.»

«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.

But they also understand that what needs to happen in their schools for their kids, it's not about testing... they make sure they have tons of sports programs, art and music, they're experimenting, they go on trips, they have high - quality this, that, and the other, they have libraries with librarians in them.

And $ 250,000 will go to expand an existing program operated by the Brooklyn Technical High School Alumni Foundation that recruits kids from middle schools in under - represented neighborhoods.

Going to my high school reunion reminded me how far behind I am on the husband / kids / money / house front, but I'm about to have some fun getting my life back.

He went to Gosford High, a selective school, but believing that he wouldn't be one of the brightest kids, turned to sport instead, where he excelled.

We went to a Halloween event for kids at a local high school with games and crafts, too.

I loved this book as a kid and I even taught it when I taught high school... I've been wanting to reread it before I go see the movie!

I am a good woman that love aman for him don't cheat I am not working due to high blood and sugar but I am going back to school on line for business management I stay at home with my parents don't have any kids but want kids one day with the right guy it u have kids that's not a problem for me I...

However, if you live near where you went to high school, you might already know everyone who will show up (and you really don't want that creepy kid from Algebra sending you winks or other flirty messages).

I'm 5 foot 4 single mom with three kids my son is a senior in high school my daughters are 13 and 11 I am currently about finished my CDL driving a school bus is my job I like to shoot guns play pool ride horses get down and dirty with the best of them just go out and have a lot of fun my passion...