Sentences with phrase «middle class parents»

This contrasts with the view that interest in parenting programmes is predominantly a phenomenon of middle class parents who do not have children with behaviour problems.

Kids of middle class parents have been forgotten in our education debates.

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

When I was young, middle class parents wished for their children a more comfortable and successful life, but one in continuity with the broad middle class consensus.

We could say that this is a typical white, middle class concern — something that the author shares with a lot of worried middle class parents.

The upper and middle class parents know their public schools are good — many of them graduated from schools just like them.

Indeed, in at least one priest's experience it is middle class parents who are often very able to jump through that hoop — for a time.

Lets refer to the Conservative idea as «reintroducing secondary modern schools» not» reintroducing grammar schools» as this would be the reality of selection for most of our children It would also result in an expansion of the independent sector as middle class parents paid to keep their children out of secondary modern schools.

All I know is that the primary schools where I live are now more like sweat shops and crammers while middle class parents are saddened to see less smiles on the faces of their children and see a weary resigntaion about school

Similarly, though Michael Gove once talked of challenging the «sharp elbowed middle class parents» in school admissions, though many expect the Tory backbenchers to see that off.

Where students can't afford the education they need and middle class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate.

In a polar opposite performance compared to the petulance of Young Adult, the soon - to - be-43-year-old Theron gained 50 pounds and a bout with actual depression to play Marlo, an overmatched middle class parent at the center of this story.

Poor children are stuck in shoddy day care, while «typical middle class parents raise their children differently,» providing them their own «head start.»

One related piece that is on the top of my mind having just looked for a school for my kindergartener is this — amongst middle and upper middle class parents looking for public schools, test scores are hugely important drivers.

The history of charters on this state was about disgruntled middle class parents saying, «We can do it better.»

Taking desperately needed funds away from schools such as Audubon Charter School, Warren Easton, Ben Franklin, Edward Hynes, Lusher, McMain, and McDonogh # 35 Academy, will only serve to weaken public school education overall by forcing middle class parents out of the New Orleans public school system.

Because Julian looks «white» and was adopted by loving middle class parents, I think that Paula concludes that he is a softie and could never have the toughness that she has, after her unconventional childhood, including «juvie.»

My list of long term effects include both the results of Diana Baumrind's 1960's study of prevalent middle class parenting styles as well as my own personal observations and subsequent analysis.

Until the liberalization of divorce that began in the 1970s, many middle class parents in unhappy marriages stayed married «for the sake of the children.»

Second, they point out that this trial was carried out in Oxford and that the socio - economic mix was somewhat biased towards middle class parents.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

Middle and upper middle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting styles.

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

It was affixed to those achievement - obsessed upper - middle class parents who cared so much about their children's comfortable excellence that they did everything they could to ensure it — like the kids» homework, mainly.

Anna's middle class parents, played fabulously by Alex Kingston (TV's E.R.) and Oliver Muirhead, give the film some respite from its moody lovelorn atmosphere, with their scenes giving some humour to proceedings.

With her life seemingly falling apart, Frances returns home to Sacramento to spend Christmas with her warm, middle class parents and family.

«When we have been successful in bringing parents into the school, they tended to be white, middle class parents who had done well when they were students in school,» Ehrich said.

You wind up with white upper - middle class parents and the teachers» union, which is predominately white middle class and obviously educated, dominating the conversation around accountability.

Making a previously unattractive school into one desired by middle class parents was, in fact, an original aim of the academy programme.

Indeed, journalist Toby Young, who is setting up one of the first free schools, said the admissions changes would «enable successful free schools and academies to ensure children from low income families aren't crowded out by sharp - elbowed, middle class parents».

It has long been argued that middle class parents are more able to «play» the admissions system than those from poorer backgrounds.

Placing positive value on parental activities that provide visibility as well as work that occurs from a «collective orientation» compounds the advantage of parents that participate in the PTO, and thus disproportionately benefits the white, middle class parent.

Upper - middle class parents, who hoard educational opportunity for their own progeny?

The proposed funding formula threatens to undo recent progress in making high quality public schools a realistic and viable option for middle class parents of all races.

Those charters with high test scores most often exclude low - scoring and problem students, while subjecting their students to punishing discipline systems that middle class parents would never allow for their own children.

Hepworth, from Wakefield in Yorkshire was born in 1903 to middle class parents and died in 1975; her adulthood spans much of the scope of this sale.