Sentences with phrase «low life kid»

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Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it

Those after - school tutoring sessions may strike you as low - impact when you survey the great needs of the world, but the investment of your time and care may alter the trajectory of a kid's life forever.

If I were Pope I would have ex-communicated every priest, bishop, cardinal, and nun involved either directly or shuffling these low lifes around so they could prey on other kids.

Usually you hang your stocking on the eve of Dec 5th and if you have been VERY good, you get chocolates, an orange or tangerine, an apple, some nuts to crack and perhaps a small gift,, this is for my DH (he will get his favorite CD also) and the kids that live in town here,,,,,,, I was wondering, how would this travel, mailing from a cold state (WIsconsin) to an even colder state (Michigan), our temps have been 30's and low 20s at night and heaven knows WHAT upper Michigan has been,,,, at times, below zero (already!

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Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

When I explain that teaching kids to overvalue external measures of success short - circuits their development as self - regulating individuals — the true foundation of a productive life — a shocking number of parents respond that you can't undo bad grades and low test scores, but you can always catch up on the emotional stuff later — a tragic misapprehension.

In Episode 81 of Edit Your Life, Asha interviews Gabrielle Blair, creator of the Design Mom blog and mother of six, about her family's low - stress, high - trust approach to their kids» educations.

Life with kids is all swings and roundabouts, it has high and lows, peaks and troughs.

Keep the kids entertained this summer with free or low - cost live outdoor concerts throughout the Triangle area.

Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among children of lower socioeconomic status.

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

I'd love to enjoy happy kids, a clean house and low - stress moments to teach my kids life lessons.

When choosing a yogurt for your kids, look for one with «live active cultures» that is low - fat and without a lot of added sugar.

From his youth sports experiences in Evanston, Wyo., to stepping onto Lambeau Field, he's experienced the highs and lows of competition at all levels and knows first - hand the life - shaping impact coaches can have on kids» lives.

Addressing the high cost of diapers for low - income families can help to take one more burden off those families as they strive to reach the middle class, and give the next generation the great start in life that all kids deserve.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

Research also shows that kids who are fed soy formula (versus breastmilk or cow's milk formula) in the first year of life may have a significantly lower bone density than other kids.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

On the one hand the «rich and famous» get them, but they live lives of ease and comfort, and the odds of them needing one are astronomically low unless they want to end it all; but the odds of that business woman who is on the train heading home to her husband and kids might he not need one late at night?

«There are lots of low income black and Hispanic kids who have their lives in the lurch, and if they don't get a better fit in terms of school immediately, their lives will be lost.»

«New Yorkers give President Donald Trump, the kid from Queens, a Bronx cheer with the lowest favorability rating, negative 33 - 62 percent, of any living President,» Greenberg said.

The findings are especially relevant to families with children living in low - income households; these kids are at greater risk of health problems resulting from poor air quality.

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged since 2008.

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged in recent years.

The time of low - rise jeans, shiny lipgloss, Britney in her prime, flip phones, Charmed, emo kids, and that strong feeling we were finally doing life right?

Producers Khadija Alami — «Insoumise (Rebellious Girl),» «Itar El - Layl (Narrow Frame of Midnight)» Joshua Astrachan — «Paterson,» «Short Term 12» Fred Berger — «The Autopsy of Jane Doe,» «La La Land» Jason Michael Berman — «Burning Sands,» «The Birth of a Nation» Moritz Borman — «Snowden,» «W.» Karin Chien — «Circumstance,» «The Exploding Girl» Michael Costigan — «Ghost in the Shell,» «A Bigger Splash» Pablo Cruz — «Cesar Chavez,» «Miss Bala» Mel Eslyn — «Lamb,» «The One I Love» Howard Gertler — «How to Survive a Plague,» «Shortbus» Aaron L. Gilbert — «Beatriz at Dinner,» «The Birth of a Nation» Mindy Goldberg — «Low Down,» «Junebug» Carla Hacken * — «The Book of Henry,» «Hell or High Water» Jordan Horowitz — «La La Land,» «The Kids Are All Right» Lars Knudsen — «American Honey,» «Beginners» Juan de Dios Larraín — «Jackie,» «No» Sophia Lin — «Z for Zachariah,» «Take Shelter» Michel Merkt — «Elle,» «Toni Erdmann» Bertha Navarro — «Pan's Labyrinth,» «The Devil's Backbone» Alex Orlovsky — «The Place beyond the Pines,» «Blue Valentine» Adele Romanski — «Moonlight,» «Morris from America» Robert Salerno — «Nocturnal Animals,» «We Need to Talk about Kevin» Jeffrey Sharp — «The Yellow Birds,» «You Can Count on Me» Nansun Shi — «Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,» «A Simple Life» Gabrielle Tana — «Philomena,» «The Invisible Woman» Jenno Topping — «Hidden Figures,» «Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children» Frida Torresblanco — «Rudo y Cursi,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Jay Van Hoy — «Complete Unknown,» «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» Julie Yorn — «Hell or High Water,» «The Other Woman» Public Relations Clive Baillie Michael Brown Matt Cowal Tomy Drissi Sonya Y. Ede - Williams Lynne Frank Jonathan Garson Peter Giannascoli Marvin Gray Simon Hewlett Melissa Holloway Angela Johnson Wellington Love Michelle Marks Bill Neil Douglas Neil Angela Paura Heather Johnson Phillips Tom Piechura Pamela Rodi Ivette Rodriguez Jeff Sanderson Jerry Schmitz Lauren Schwartz Carol Sewell Michael Singer Afrat Spalding Kristin Stark Maggie Todd Norman Wang Bumble Ward Joe Whitmore Lea Yardum Kevin Allen Yoder

The kids were living with their parents in a Lower East Side apartment where they would meticulously recreate scenes from favorite movies and had rarely ventured outside into the real world before Moselle's camera entered their home and changed their lives forever.

Two young bumbling low - level Big Apple insurance accountants, the smoothie wise - guy idler Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and the still living with his parents nerdy tongue - tied whiz kid Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman), discover someone is cooking the books big time and they alert their slimy playboy boss Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser).

Khadija Alami — «Insoumise (Rebellious Girl),» «Itar El - Layl (Narrow Frame of Midnight)» Joshua Astrachan — «Paterson,» «Short Term 12» Fred Berger — «The Autopsy of Jane Doe,» «La La Land» Jason Michael Berman — «Burning Sands,» «The Birth of a Nation» Moritz Borman — «Snowden,» «W.» Karin Chien — «Circumstance,» «The Exploding Girl» Michael Costigan — «Ghost in the Shell,» «A Bigger Splash» Pablo Cruz — «Cesar Chavez,» «Miss Bala» Mel Eslyn — «Lamb,» «The One I Love» Howard Gertler — «How to Survive a Plague,» «Shortbus» Aaron L. Gilbert — «Beatriz at Dinner,» «The Birth of a Nation» Mindy Goldberg — «Low Down,» «Junebug» Carla Hacken * — «The Book of Henry,» «Hell or High Water» Jordan Horowitz — «La La Land,» «The Kids Are All Right» Lars Knudsen — «American Honey,» «Beginners» Juan de Dios Larraín — «Jackie,» «No» Sophia Lin — «Z for Zachariah,» «Take Shelter» Michel Merkt — «Elle,» «Toni Erdmann» Bertha Navarro — «Pan's Labyrinth,» «The Devil's Backbone» Alex Orlovsky — «The Place beyond the Pines,» «Blue Valentine» Adele Romanski — «Moonlight,» «Morris from America» Robert Salerno — «Nocturnal Animals,» «We Need to Talk about Kevin» Jeffrey Sharp — «The Yellow Birds,» «You Can Count on Me» Nansun Shi — «Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,» «A Simple Life» Gabrielle Tana — «Philomena,» «The Invisible Woman» Jenno Topping — «Hidden Figures,» «Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children» Frida Torresblanco — «Rudo y Cursi,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Jay Van Hoy — «Complete Unknown,» «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» Julie Yorn — «Hell or High Water,» «The Other Woman»

That being said, in many ways NTSC acted as a concealer, so caveat emptor that the ultra-high resolution makes A Bug's Life look that much more dated and primitive next to something like WALL · E. Neither has the mix aged particularly gracefully: While the disc's 5.1 DTS - HD Master Audio comes amazingly close to matching my memory of screening the film in a THX auditorium, Gary Rydstrom's sound design is relentlessly manic in the fashion of late -»90s blockbusters and low - rent kid's fare.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

What Kids Think About Bullying And Kindness In The Trump Era (WBUR) Richard Weissbourd is quoted: «There is some evidence that low - income kids, and kids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.&raKids Think About Bullying And Kindness In The Trump Era (WBUR) Richard Weissbourd is quoted: «There is some evidence that low - income kids, and kids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.&rakids, and kids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.&rakids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.»

Through mindful problem solving, reflection, and low - stakes assignments, we employ student - centered active engagement in academics to help kids develop voice and agency in school and in their lives as a whole.

Or we will hear that Success creams top students, gets rid of low - achievers through attrition, and test preps kids within an inch of their lives, or even cheats.

For example, describing these students as living in homes with a low income or with low SES (socioeconomic status) is very different, and more accurate, than calling them «low - income students,» «low - SES students,» or «high - poverty kids.»

I like to use the phrase, «from the barrio to the boardroom» precisely because the Cristo Rey schools have helped so many urban, low socioeconomic kids turn their lives around and my goal is to provide nothing less to the inner - city children of Houston.

The principal intellectual and moral argument that advocates make — and for which I have considerable sympathy — is similar to that of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) backers: giving needy kids a boost up the ladder of educational and later - life success by narrowing the achievement gaps that now trap too many of them on the lower rungs.

Keeping Low - income Students from Being Throwaway Kids Daily Journal Online, 5/18/13 «Richard Weissbourd, a lecturer in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is showing — through active research in a range of classrooms — how teachers, principals, school boards and legislators can rescue such kids from dead - end lives before they give up on schools.&raKids Daily Journal Online, 5/18/13 «Richard Weissbourd, a lecturer in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is showing — through active research in a range of classrooms — how teachers, principals, school boards and legislators can rescue such kids from dead - end lives before they give up on schools.&rakids from dead - end lives before they give up on schools.»

A plan unveiled today by Great Public Schools Now identifies 10 low - income neighborhoods where the nonprofit will focus its efforts on expanding access to high - performing schools for kids close to where they live.

Our friends at the Wallace Foundation, seeking to engage low - income young people in the arts as a way of narrowing life opportunity gaps, commissioned a strategic marketing group to find out: What makes a program desirable to kids?

«If kids living in low - income neighborhoods don't have access to healthy food and safe places to play, what are we setting them up for?

«You have this billionaire who doesn't have the life experience of poverty — the story of not being able to choose a quality school and having your kid go to a low - performance public school and not having a way out.»

There's nothing conservative about wanting low - income kids to acquire the kind of knowledge that will enable them to succeed in life.

you'll just never know if your kid is really smart or just living in a state where the grade - level standards are politically, pathetically low.