Sentences with phrase «many kids in our neighborhood»

I was talking a guy this past week who said he was going to pass out Gospel tracts to the kids in the neighborhood when they came by his door.

I've worked with a lot of kids in neighborhoods where violence was a daily reality - being tough and making people think you might hurt them, even if you actually didn't, was, for many of them, a vital survival technique.

Having said that, there are some kids in my neighborhood who love the motorcycle and playing with my dog — and have never had any problems here in Glasgow Scotland with that.

African - American churches that serve impoverished urban areas argue compellingly that many kids in their neighborhoods are left out of the «digital revolution» because they do not have home computers.

There's this kid in the neighborhood, a kid who spends enough time at my house that he has taken to referring to me as «mom.»

«I'm hearing from a couple of my players that there's this tall Russian kid in the neighborhood,» says Hal (Hotsy) Reinfeld, the George Washington High basketball coach, «but they tell me he's kind of clumsy.

He was taking a big chunk of Harlem — twenty - four blocks, back then — and he was planning to address every problem that was holding back poor kids in that neighborhood, from their families to their schools to their community.

So if I wanted to play outside I was stuck with the kids in our neighborhood.

We will not hear the ice - cream truck that draws every kid in the neighborhood like a magnet.

When she was a toddler, I would notice things and wonder, but now that she's in school and playing with more kids in the neighborhood it's affecting her life more.

We've just made the decision as a family to take a financial detour by enrolling our kids in the neighborhood Catholic school when they reach school age (already made a deposit for NEXT year, actually, since spots are scarce).

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Get other kids in the neighborhood or from your child's school involved.

Kids in the same class become friends or you become friends with kids in the neighborhood.

Our across the street neighbor would dress up in a Santa costume and visit all the kids in the neighborhood.

His premise is that kids in neighborhoods like Harlem face so many disadvantages — poorly run schools, poorly educated parents, dangerous streets — that it doesn't make sense to tackle just one or two of those problems and ignore the rest.

Make several candy corn bags filled with candy for the kids in the neighborhood, by painting cotton bags with a bright yellow and orange stripe to make it look like a piece of candy corn.

I was one of those kids back in the 70's running around until dusk with the other kids in the neighborhood.

But when every other kid in the neighborhood can recite lines from the newest show, ours are going to want in.

Jumpstart a community library for the kids in your neighborhood.

«He had brothers to fight with, and he would fight with the other kids in the neighborhood.»

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

Johnson went out and interviewed kids in the neighborhood and developed the concept for C - Ball after realizing how much they all cared about sports.

The laser pointers every kid in your neighborhood owns are sold primarily on price.

Instead of assuming a strategically located farmer's market, for instance, will by default mean kids in the neighborhood eat less food high in fat, sugar and salt, policymakers might want to also consider emphasizing the downsides of those choices.

For two days, my kids (and all the kids in the neighborhood) have been outside 8 - 10 hours a day sledding, building snowmen, and making snow angels.

All of the kids in our neighborhood are suddenly outside again, after being holed up away from the heat (or at the pool) for the summer, and they all run a muck between the various houses with the parents chatting nearby.

My two Godsons and niece live in SC and we don't get too many kids in our neighborhood, so I've become a Halloween Scrooge.

We don't have many kids in our neighborhood.

and I turn the lights off for Trick O» Treaters (there aren't many little kids in my neighborhood, and most of them go to other neighborhoods on less busy streets... so all we get are older kids who don't even wear costumes... which is really just going door - to - door begging for food... which is awkward).

There weren't many kids in our neighborhood, as we lived out in the country, so I learned to play by myself using my imagination.

But ten years later, the kids in the neighborhood are slowly growing up.

Today is the first day of school for the kids in our neighborhood.

But as Paul Tough writes in his book, Whatever It Takes, about Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, Canada had something growing up that a lot of other kids in the neighborhood didn't: a mother with a couple years of college under her belt who realized that education doesn't only happen in school.

When she was 10, she was the organizer of a programming - rich summer camp for kids in her neighborhood.

«Sixteen percent of our kids graduate from four - year colleges, compared to less than 5 percent of public school kids in our neighborhoods; and it's only 3 percent of CPS Latinos and 4 percent of CPS blacks who graduate from college.»

He's against charter schools for political reasons, but his political agenda isn't helping kids in my neighborhood learn how to read or improve their math skills.

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I asked the Mayor to make a commitment that he wouldn't send unwanted teachers into classrooms at my son's school, but Mayor de Blasio made it clear that kids in our neighborhood aren't his priority.

Many of the same schools that were failing kids in my neighborhood 20 years ago are still failing yet another generation of children today.

«I think that's one of the most dramatic examples of a successful turnaround — the support among families knowing they have better schools for their kids in their neighborhood.»

But I also know there are many kids in my neighborhood whose families can't yet make these choices.

There's a perfectly decent one one town over, which all the kids in our neighborhood had to use when we were unincorporated county.

It has plenty of room for the Berner and extra kids in the neighborhood.

She is amazingly calm - kids in her neighborhood have been well trained in kidnapping protocol.

Her demeanor changes, however, when she meets a new kid in the neighborhood whose family belongs to a doomsday religious cult.

Vandalism by kids in the neighborhood.

He was a St. Bernard / Great Dane cross who outweighed all of the kids in the neighborhood put together.

Other kids in the neighborhood agreed that they see cats everywhere.

All the kids in the neighborhood also know her.