Sentences with phrase «like ordinary kids»

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Like «Hansel and Gretel,» this story has a set of siblings, three of whom respond to danger with courage, imagination and fidelity — ordinary kids who rise to the challenges of an extraordinary situation.

But just like everyone else, parents of kids with special needs crave plain, ordinary human contact.

Use it if you like, but don't kid yourself that it's any better than ordinary table salt.

«Especially for achievement gap kids, I don't know of any charter schools like a KIPP [Knowledge is Power Program] or a Roxbury Prep that are running on today's ordinary schedule.»

I, like so many teachers across our great state, can tell you with great joy the hundreds of examples of ordinary students doing extraordinary things in the classroom; Tell you the time when tears filled my eyes, when life hit a student like a ton of bricks, and give you the names of kids who were the first in their family to go to college.

This type of school culture is found in ordinary schools in high - achieving countries like South Korea, Finland, and Poland, according to Amanda Ripley's fine recent book, The Smartest Kids in the World.

His story resumes in the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving, permitting him to revel in the acceptance of «that long, stretching - out time when my dreams would have mystery like any ordinary person's; when whatever I do or say, who I marry, how my kids turn out, becomes what the world — if it makes note at all — knows of me, how I'm seen, understood, even how I think of myself before whatever there is that's wild and unassuagable rises and cheerlessly hauls me off to oblivion.»

If you have out of the ordinary things like foreign accounts or large investment income in your kids name, you may be out of luck.

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