Sentences with phrase «like send children to school»

In global development circles, it's long been understood that providing money to poor households when they do things like send children to school or get children vaccinated can fight poverty and meet broader social goals in the short term.

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People were buying things like crazy, where did all the money go... we take a look at the leadership's homes, their cars, the schools they sent their children to and where they went on vacation.

However please notice my wording I like learning about religion from my religious leaders and I raised my children and sent them to religious school to learn about religion.

On issues like tuition vouchers for families to send their children to private and parochial schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)

Much older Catholics recall things like the ban on music at a «mixed marriage» — and in some dioceses even the consignment of such a wedding to the sacristy and consequent lack of any sense of celebration — or refusal of the Sacraments because of a failure to send children to a Catholic school.

If you're thinking about sending your children to GISC and would like to learn more about us and our school, then this is a wonderful opportunity to do so.

I look back at all of the conflicts we had with schools over the years (things like treating our children respectfully, struggling to provide healthy food choices, uhg) and I am ashamed to admit that my fear and ignorance about HS allowed me to justify sending my children off everyday to deal with people and situations that were not positive learning experiences for them, but often humiliating or dis - empowering.

but if enough real food advocates step up and say «does it really make sense to serve candy and soda at an elementary school function» or «can we encourage parents to send non-food treats for bday celebrations» or better yet, «can you do what you do best and help my child learn to like fresh produce just like you taught him to read?»

So by your logic if Honey Boo Boo's mom decides to bring «go - go» juice (red bull mixed with Mountain Dew) and pageant crack (pixie sticks) to class to celebrate and uses her own money, the only thing other parents can do is hope their children are trained like pit bulls to «just say no,» homeschool, or send them to a private school.

Include foods your child likes There is no point sending your child to school with a lunch you know she isn't going to eat.

Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.

When tragedy strikes a school community — whether it's a death at your child's school or a loss of life so horrific that it affects us all, like the shootings at Newtown, Connecticut — the prospect of sending kids back to school can be daunting.

As for the nuts issue, as the parent of vegan elementary school children, I have to admit it would be nice to be able to send nuts in for snack (we are allowed to at lunch), but even if I couldn't, there are many other times during the day I can find an opportunity to give them an ounce or two of nuts — like breakfast, after school snack, dinner and dessert!

(D.C. school officials would certainly like to know who those children are, since families making that kind of money typically send their kids to one of the private schools that proliferate here.

Few embark into parenthood assuming that they will one day have to send their child away because of extreme behavioral issues; however, solutions like a therapeutic boarding school offer a valuable partnership for parents that want the best for their child, but are out of options.

The fact is that lower - income groups are much more likely to see the benefits of spending in these areas as they are proportionately less likely to send their children to private fee - paying schools like Harrow or Eton, or have private health insurance and be registered with Harley St doctors.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money to fund religious schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice to send their children to these schools to be further subsidized or they want to buy themselves good will with the increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide to seek higher office.

I just wonder what such a school would look like in practice and who would be brave enough to send their children there.

Here's my best guess: This poor child is the only black boy in that classroom, and we're paying good money for his Catholic school education, and here we are sending him to school with shoes like this.

A well - publicized report by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, for example, asked public parents the following question: «Is there some other school to which you would like to send your child?

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoodTo students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoodto mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoodto attend schools in white neighborhoods.

Party leaders have failed to respond adequately to the question of why poor minority parents should be required to send their children to failing public schools when luminaries like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Ted Kennedy saw fit to send their own children to private schools.

Mohler sends messages to parents about school events like Spirit Week, their kid's homework, and positive or negative things about their child's day.

«This is why we put in place new measures to improve the SEND training available to school staff, including tools developed through our work with organisations like nasen, to boost the profile of early years professionals working with children who have additional learning needs — building on a commitment set out in our Early Years Workforce Strategy.»

Sensing the opportunity, simple communication apps like ClassDojo, Spotlight, Remind, and Seesaw allow educators to send mobile texts, video summaries, and other alerts to parents about important school activities or their child's recent academic or behavioral progress.

Like traditional school vouchers, state funds are used to provide financial support to qualifying parents who want to send their children to private school.

Like many other types of school choice, educational tax credits enable parents to send their children to the K - 12 school of their choice, public or private, religious or non-religious.

This isn't just wishful thinking; all around the country, affluent families are choosing to send their children to racially and socio - economically integrated schools, in places like Cambridge and Berkeley, but also in less likely spots such as Alexandria, Virginia; Stapleton, Colorado; and Miraloma Park, California.

We were all exploring ways to avoid sending our children to the school, though maybe like all parents, I felt mine was a unique case.

In the absence of critical services like transportation, which parents overwhelmingly cite as key needs, many families will continue to send their children to subpar district schools.

Let parents who are religiously elite send their children to parochial schools if they like.

When you send children to school, you expect them to learn certain things like reading, writing and arithmetic.

When families, when these military families were asked where they would like to send their children to school, 68 % of the respondents said something other than a district public school, a traditional public school.

Under the court order, the state must send a spreadsheet with extensive information on each voucher applicant, including name, address and race; the public school, if any, the child attended the previous year; and the private school he or she would like to attend with the voucher.

The voucher program works like this: Taxpayer subsidies go to lower - and middle - income parents who choose to send their children to private and religious schools.

Of course, the Trib claims that results were «weighted» to assure a mix consistent with city demographics... but then, like Mayor Rahm, most of the white people in Chicago send their children to private schools.

If you look at opinion polls what you find is that older voters like it, and particularly older voters who remember grammar schools in the old way like it, but parents who actually have to make invidious choices about where to send their children hate it.»

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

Charter - school advocates like Gassner - Snyder argue that the choice they provide to parents is worth the cost to local districts, adding that, if parents decide not to send their children to the charters, the schools don't see a dime.

I am ready to lead the charge that takes the «education reform» debate back into the hands of teachers, not billionaires who have never sent their children to public schools or know what it is like to be a public - school teacher.

If I send my child to school, I would want to know like how many students would be in a class.

If you would like to collect money, all the charities involved with Send My Friend to School support projects which help families and communities improve their situation and get children into school, and you can support any of them individSchool support projects which help families and communities improve their situation and get children into school, and you can support any of them individschool, and you can support any of them individually.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

When asked why she chose to send her children to the school, Caroline Withers replied; «We liked the ethos of the Headmaster, we really bought into what he said about Free Schools, how they can tailor it to the individual child's needs.»

If you know you want to send your child to private school and your skill set aligns to an opening at a school you like, apply for a job.

We don't have as many options as we would like on where to send our children to school.

Like: If public school isn't good enough for Muldrow's child, why does she think it should be good enough for children whose parents aren't capable of sending them to private schools?

Financially strapped parents — like both sets of my grandparents — who saw education as the North Star to liberation scraped together meager earnings to send their children to private school, even while paying taxes for a persistently failing neighborhood school.