Sentences with phrase «like high school years»

When I told my son last night we were having a snow day because of the blizzard, he jumped up and down cheering and all my local pals and I chatted on Facebook about our snow day plans, just like high school years ago!

Not exact matches

They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

I read the actual book a few years ago, and it's definitely one that I wish I could go back and tell my seventh - grade self is worth reading, especially since I liked «Brave New World» so much when I read it in high school.

Those last couple of years of high school, I kind of felt like I had to really overachieve, and I worked really hard and am still working really hard 25 years later.

After four years of high school, followed by another four years of college, work sounds like an exciting adventure!

This September, like every year, a new group of high school graduates headed to college or university to pursue higher education.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

Over the years since she joined Facebook in junior high school, her perception has shifted, and Facebook now feels more like a place that tries to «exploit» her personal information, even as it fails to, in her view, adequately address the harassment and hate speech she and her friends see on the platform.

Two years ago, I visited a school in Brooklyn called P - TECH, the Pathways in Technology early college high school, which seemed very much like the future of education to me.

The students should go to local, try to ramp up security, get more video coverage at these schools, maybe would with some veterans groups to see if we can get a volunteer program like Neighborhood Watch in areas 20 years ago that had high crime.

Reflecting on Kevin Kiley's article «Long Reads» at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O'Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, like....

Although my call was more like a slow culmination of events and experiences, there was one dramatic moment in my senior year in high school.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

You can ask high school teachers or youth workers about this if you like, but you really need look no further than your own teen years, when your interests and attention seemed to spiral out in a million directions that could be mistaken for having no direction at all.

Pacilio leaned liberal, and making me research things like Kent State did have something to do with my becoming fascinated with 1960s radicalism during my high - school years, but he was scrupulously fair and like the great debate coach he was, typically made us aware of the best arguments either side had.

With so many accidents happening in football alone last year at the high school level and below additional sports accidents like boys and girls wrestling each other is an accident waiting to happen.

This is basically a show about the plans and dreams of nine Texas high school kids in the class of 2000 and how 10 years after graduation nothing in their lives is like they planned it.

Jill, who I've known since high school; Jill, who could tell you every stupid crush I had as a teenager; Jill, who has seen me cry like a baby and dance like a fool; Jill, who has prayed with me and struggled with me and grown with me for years.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

I know what you mean about time flying... seems like my oldest just received his First Holy Communion but now he is wrapping up his freshman year of high school.

Note: I enjoyed this book in spite of the narration on audible - the narrator's tone sounded like a high class 40 year old rather than a middle school / high school kid.

«There's never been anyone from the Big Island to make the type of impact he's made in a conference like the SEC,» says Mahelona's coach at Kealakehe High, Sam Papalii, who spent 18 years as an assistant at such schools as Hawaii, UNLV, Iowa State and Arizona.

Yeah it's not like he won the state championship In high school or was the college player of the year..

Mize is 2 to 3 years from MLB, rather than 5 to 6 like a high schooler.

Brown felt like he could play in college, but when his high school coach fell ill his senior year, Brown lost direction.

«He's a lot like me in some ways,» says Redick, who regularly IM'd McRoberts after the high school star committed to Duke two years ago.

I'd also like the package to include two to four years of college tuition for every high school player drafted, African - American or not.

In high school Jackson did things like twist his ankle while winning the state title in the triple jump (48» 8 1/4») and then come back the same day to set a state record (9.54) in the 100 - yard dash; like throw a discus 149 feet without spinning his body, because he'd never been taught the proper form; like win the state decathlon crown his junior and senior years without running the mile, the final event, because «distance is the only thing I hate about track.»

Currently, there is a minimum age limit of one year out of high school to enter the NBA, which the owners would like to see increased to two years.

In just two short years, Kendall Derry has begun to write a championship - like script at Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks.

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.

Last year, I said that Goldberg looks like your high school softball coach on creatine.

Davis often moped through practices his first year, and he looked nothing like the player who had won the high school Heisman as a senior.

With high school basketball becoming so popular with shoe sponsors like Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Under Armour, etc, I won't be surprised if Van Komen goes to a prolific prep academy next year for his senior year.

Like Townsend, he played QB in high school and will likely require a redshirt year to get his bearings, particularly with the returning talent on the roster.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

It also sounds like at the high school level, nothing at all is changing (even though last year's DISD high school menu, with entrees like «Buffalo Bites and Texas Toast» and «Shrimp Poppers and Hush Puppies,» might give you serious pause.)

So I would give, there those things again you know, so it definitely helped to have people around that not necessarily would just agree with me, with that I could see that yes her child is a year older and she is still doing it like wait, her child just walked over to her and laid across her lap you know so all of those things that people kept saying, «Oh my god she's still breastfeeding, she will still be breastfeeding until high school» you know like, those things weren't important in that group because everyone was doing it so it definitely made life a lot easier just to see it just to be around people who are doing the same things that I was doing.

Once kids hit their teen and tween years (mainly middle and high school), many begin to crave the company of like - minded peers.

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

We'll seriously consider it when our daughter gets to that point in her educational career, but I'd like her to also think about a gap year since she'll be 17 when she graduates from high school.

There are huge correlations between a child's attachment style in that first year and what they'll be like in kindergarten, how well they'll get along at camp with peers, even how likely that child is to graduate or drop out of high school.

According to their framework, high - level «non-cognitive» skills like resilience, curiosity, and academic tenacity that are essential to success in middle and high school are impossible for a child to obtain without first developing, in the early years of formal education, executive function, a capacity for self - awareness, and relationship skills.

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Six in ten students will finish out the school year improving their attitudes to new vegetables, trying new ones, or maintaining their high regard for them if they already liked them.

Much like a parent might do for their son's high school graduation in the year 2000.

President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

The school superintendents said in a relatively high - tax state like New York, the highest - income taxpayers would be forced to pay thousands of dollars more per year in taxes if they are no longer able to deduct state and local income taxes.

Guests at the 10 - year celebration in the Cutler Union at the Memorial Art Gallery enjoyed a silent auction featuring high - end items like 5 nights in NYC, restaurant and spa gift baskets, and music played by city school educators Steve Copeland, Vito Cricati and Greg Detwiler.