Sentences with phrase «middle school children who»

However, such ideological differences don't matter to a middle school child who is afraid to go to school.

He's like a middle school child who is doing drugs and having sex with various partners?

Not exact matches

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about church is that she has to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.

The Sunday School was started to provide Christian nurture and knowledge of the Bible for poor children who lacked the advantages of middle - class family life.

Schools and parents sometimes have difficulty with the form's middle box, which is a box for conditional clearances or more specifically for children who are «Cleared for all sports without restriction with recommendations for further evaluation or treatment for...» Schools, Districts and YSOs have to make sure that whoever is receiving the forms is vigilant enough to read the recommendations for further evaluation and treatment, and to make sure they're implemented.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Some children change during middle school, and it's possible that your child may have a friend who experiments with drugs, alcohol, or other dangerous behaviors.

• Children in middle school who are securely attached to both parents are perceived by teachers to be more competent than children who are securely attached to just one parent (Diener et alChildren in middle school who are securely attached to both parents are perceived by teachers to be more competent than children who are securely attached to just one parent (Diener et alchildren who are securely attached to just one parent (Diener et al, 2007).

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first feChildren's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fechildren arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

Any child who is facing middle school will have questions about the changes ahead.

A child who is in middle school has a lot of responsibilities, including homework, project planning and more.

Among middle - school aged children who have four hours or more of screen time a day, only 1 % earn A's in math and language arts.

Does your child's middle school have a no - cut policy or does it limit the number of children who get a chance to participate in interscholastic sports?

In middle and high school, these issues can emerge as major challenges — particularly for a child who is coping with a disorder such as ADHD, which has an impact on her behaviors, thought processes, and social skills.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

Whether it be the husband in the group or the wife in the group (or even a young child in elementary school, middle school, or high - school), folding a cloth diaper can be folded by pretty - much anyone who has the ability and the things needed to fold other pieces of wash.

Those children who enter a Waldorf school in the middle grades often bring much information about the world.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

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 backgSchools 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 backgschools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

Linda Banta, a Larchmont resident with two children in public schools who joined a rally against the regulation on July 29 held by state Senate candidate Julie Killian and congressional candidate Phil Oliva, both Republicans, said, «It's alarming that the federal government announced something in the middle of summer that could so adversely affect our schools and economy.»

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

At 11 a.m., the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and parents of children who attend Bronx public schools call on Albany for equal funding to their children's schools, Girls Prep Bronx Middle School, 890 Cauldwell Ave., the Bronx.

Now we're able to send our children to a middle school in our neighborhood,» Debra Millman, who has a 7 - year - old at nearby P.S. 59, told DNAinfo.com New York.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

«The poorest children are already eligible for free school meals — the main beneficiaries of this new universal benefit will be middle and upper - income households, who really don't need a public subsidy.»

New York, NY — Eva Moskowitz released an open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio today that calls on City Hall to provide permanent middle school space for 465 Success Academy children who still don't know where they will attend school next year.

Parents who have reached out to my office have expressed the position that they chose P.S. 122Q for their children primarily because of the auto - articulation into middle school.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Middle - school children who consume heavily sweetened energy drinks are 66 % more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has school children who consume heavily sweetened energy drinks are 66 % more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has School of Public Health has found.

Co-authors Cathy Sorichetti and Tamara Grundland emphasize that there are many promising prevention strategies including life skills training for middle schoolers, comprehensive community - based interventions addressing children, schools, and the larger community, education of parents about the risk of supplying alcohol to teenagers, and greater enforcement of laws prosecuting those who sell liquor to minors.

«Children who watched a lot of television growing up were more likely to prefer solitude, experience peer victimization, and adopt aggressive and antisocial behaviour toward their peers at the end of the first year of middle school.

Rimm, who wasn't involved in the study, surveyed thousands of middle - school children for a 2004 book, Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Kids.

Wrong Answer will be based in part on a New Yorker article about the Atlanta teachers who were in an untenable situation — the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 threatened to shut down the Parks Middle School based on standardized test scores with no consideration for testing bias.

Starring as the misanthropic Guy Trilby, a middle - aged man who never passed the eighth grade, Bateman finds a loophole in the rules for The Golden Quill spelling bee, a competition designed for school children, and enters himself into the contest.

I spent fifteen years as a middle school teacher, working hard to gain an understanding of students who vacillated between being needy children and insightful adults.

«Studies found that elementary schools were pretty well taken care of with after - school child care, and high schools had such high - caliber programs as youth - leadership development and arts and theater,» says Salmons, who points out that middle school students, meanwhile, were vastly underserved.

These parents, probably the majority of home schoolers, are mainly middle - class parents who believe in prolonged intimate contact between family and child, but who do not mean to impede their children's access to higher education and jobs or their ability to act as good citizens.

«I was happy because I got to help the other children,» says Gustavo, a former Sports4Kids junior coach who is now a sixth grader in middle school.

Jon Star is an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics in middle and high school, particularly algebra.

As a middle school, it welcomes children who enter several grade levels behind.

Above all, the evidence should inspire those who are working for school choice in America: stories of parents» overcoming all the odds to ensure the best for the children in Africa and Asia, stories of education entrepreneurs» creating schools out of nothing, in the middle of nowhere.

Kronholz focused on middle schoolers (which is also a shift — it used to be only high school students who engaged in competitive tournaments), but elementary school — age children also now participate in a variety of highly competitive and organized afterschool activities.

The Indiana Supreme Court has thrown out a finding of child delinquency for a middle school student who posted a vulgarity - laced tirade against her principal on MySpace.com.

By one estimate, a middle - school child who is an avid reader might read nearly 10 million words in a year, compared with 100,000 for the least motivated middle - school reader.

Concluded Winerip, «Like many other middle schools in New York City, this one is overloaded with children who have transferred in under the federal No Child Left Behind law.»

This parent, who has been supportive of Moskowitz and Success Academy, is planning to speak to her child's middle school principal about it — the very outcome Moskowitz says she wants to encourage — but she said she first needs to figure out how to approach it without getting upset.

Pupils at Hugh Sexey Church of England Middle School in Somerset, were the first to take part in an innovative scheme to raise awareness of the 124 million children in the world who are missing out on an education * across the globe.

A 2011 study from MIT showed that children with dyslexia who used the right hemisphere of their brains for reading later improved their reading skills over two years in middle school.