Sentences with phrase «kids were in public school»

It does not matter if your kids are in public school, charter school, private school, or home schooled.

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One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

«We're staffed to really support not just independent private schools like ourselves, but in the future, public schools where the majority of kids are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.

If you're looking to raise one of the most powerful business leaders in the world, you might want to send your kid to Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, in India.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

If you have kids or are planning on starting a family, you've likely thought about how you can position yourself in an area with excellent public schools.

In other words, even if you buy a $ 1.5 M median home and pay $ 20,000 a year in property tax, you are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the public school down the streeIn other words, even if you buy a $ 1.5 M median home and pay $ 20,000 a year in property tax, you are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the public school down the streein property tax, you are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the public school down the street.

Then I factored in private education costs for two kids to be conservative given I may not have two kids and public schools are often good enough.

'' it's perfectly legal to take pictures in a public area» Hang around a grade school taking pictures of the kids and we'll see how your «internet law degree» holds up in court.

Having kids sing songs about Jesus in a public school is illegal.

Although the issue of homeschool student participation in public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....

I grew up in a time when the Lord's Prayer was recited in public school every morning, and when Christmas pageants were the norm for every kid.

In fact I bet you're one of those hypocrite teabagger trolls who are happy to have the government pave their roads, provide public schools for their kids, provide a mortgage credit, etc. then whine about all those fictional people getting so much for free.

More and more public schools are defying the low expectations of kids in low - income communities.

Especially, if belief in Santa was affecting their behavior — like demanding that my kids pray to Santa in the public schools, and that certain people's rights must be curtailed because of their belief in Santa.

Jonathan Kozol is celebrated in educator - land for his tear - jerking accounts of how poor kids get cheated by the tightwad public schools and the miserable, selfish, capitalist society of the United States.

@MoneyTrail, Are kids in public schools in Texas forced, encouraged, or coerced into praying to a Christian God?

After all, implicit in Ms. Rhee's statement is the suggestion that if you have the wherewithal to get your kids out of the D.C. public schools, you have a parental obligation to do it.

have a good spring break / holidays / winter break... i seriously do not believe there is any religion involved in public schools when kids go home for breaks..

Are there no Madrassa in New York where kids can get an education equal to the public school and yet observer the religious holidays?

Guns are in schools because quite obviously kids are able to get them with relative ease, not because the govt took forced prayer out of public schools.

There are about 12 % Muslim kids in NewYork's public schools.

I didn't want my kids to be in public school, learning Evulooshun and sitting next to kids who aren't Christian.

I want to introduce my kids to a God who is both personal and public, a God who hears their prayers about being afraid to go down the slide at school and who also cares about the systems of injustice and oppression in this world.

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

He said they were brought here by their parent they did not wrong... those kids should be allowed to attend our public schools... and he was critized by the GOP right wing Christians for that comment... It seems to me there are many that wave the Bible and have no idea what is written in the Bible...

Unless it comes down to trying to force kids in public school to pray today I don't think it's that big of a deal.

I do not know how much LGBT is involve in promoting that their life style be taught as a norm in public schools, but it is entirely unnecessary and I think can cause little kids to be very confused.

Being prohibited from persecuting others (by forcing Jewish kids to pray Christian prayers in a public school, for example) is not persecution.

Too bad NYC has banned bake sales in public schools, especially when they can really be a great way to raise money and get kids and parents into the kitchen.

Funds are used to raise awareness about child hunger in the U.S.; create public - private partnerships that align kids with the resources they need; support nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals; and educate kids and their families on how to cook healthy meals with limited resources.

For example, one episode we're trying to focus on a homeschooling parent versus their sibling who enrolls their kids in public or private schools.

Part of the reason for this is that so many choose to send their kids to private school and have no interest whatsoever in improving the public schools.

i know a lot of people who have regretted starting their kids in public school because it either makes it harder for them to get used to the idea of learning from mom or because they form attachments at school and don't want to be homeschooled.

I hope there will be more options available when the time comes in the way of tax breaks or vouchers for those who decide not to send their kids to public schools.

I am biased, being an educator in a public school (high school), but I have also met some wonderful kids who were homeschooled until 8th grade.

Although my heart wants to home school or unschool Ava, I'm not giving in and instead am leaving her in public school for kindergarten (in a class of 25 kids) this year.

What are N.C. Public Schools doing to improve meals kids eat at school in the wake of new regulations and programs designed to improve childhood health.

There are millions of poor kids who only eat because of free and reduced - cost meal programs at public schools, and still tons of kids are running meal account deficits because their parents can't or won't pay their account balances, and it's the kids who suffer in that case.

But in terms of the tone used by the lunch room volunteers — I will say that my two kids are now old veterans of public elementary school lunch rooms and they've certainly endured their share of barking lunch room monitors.

We have friends whose kids are going to the public kindergarten (only 1/2 day) with the «wraparound» enrichment program for the rest of the day; their little ones are already stressed out because they have just 2.75 hours in school, during which they're basically being trampled on with mountains of «instruction,» and the wraparound program gives just 20 minutes for lunch while foregoing rest time in favor of «reading instruction» and «homework help.»

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.

But at the same time, they're all the ones who have their kids in schools that cost twice what the public schools cost, and they don't see a contradiction in that.

Janis Groomes, food service director at Northport Public Schools, knows the power of school gardens to get kids interested in eating fruits and vegetables, even ones that are unusual...

As Chicago Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about kids» allergies

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

Each year public school children are subjected to standardized tests to measure their achievements in comparison to all other public - schooled kids.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

20 years ago when we started our public school adventure with our severe allergy child there were really no rules in place for allergy kids like ours.