Sentences with phrase «middle school kids do»

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I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

Don't pay any attention to «pervert alert» — it's a bitchy little troll that wanders in every so often when the middle school kids are bored and get extra comp time at the library.

Normally I just play video games — what any middle school kid would do.

If he's the kid sitting in the front constantly raising his hand to ask questions just to show everyone how smart he is — that doesn't go over well in middle school, let alone the NFL.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

I mean, it had started harmlessly enough — a few kids with Princeton shirts in middle school, rumors of summer camps at Duke — but by the time senior year rolled around, competition was so fierce that people didn't even talk about where they were applying.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familySchool: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

Well somebody didn't read their Harry Potter, because an Ohio middle school is actually allowing some parents to opt their children out of part of the state social studies curriculum on the grounds that they don't want their kids learning about Muslims.

We don't do a la carte lunch because that just stigmatizes the poorer students who can't afford the a la carte selections; instead we offer many choices to our middle and high school kids, all full meals and all available to anyone.

Set Your Kids Free: 10 Things They Need to Be Able to Do on Their Own by Middle School (also posted as guest blog on Bonbon Break)

When the new standards for more fruits and vegetables in school lunches were first implemented at the middle school where I worked at the time, there was an increase in kids who didn't want to eat all of their lunches.

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 few years.

But when viewed against the entire array of what's served by the district — the amount of processed, prepackaged food, the predominance of «kid food» like chicken nuggets and hamburgers, the sub-par «a la carte» offerings (especially at the middle and high school levels)-- these improvements don't seem terribly significant.

My school district here in Houston is doing a lot of things right, but it's still selling garbage like this to our middle and high school kids every single day:

Here's my confession: My middle school - aged kids don't know enough life skills.

My kids are independent and have learned to do their homework on their own.But I had to step in recently to help my middle - schooler with a term paper that needed a lot of help.

Stopping to take phone calls to chat with friends in the middle of school definitely doesn't work for the younger kids and their attention spans, nor can they really achieve what they need to without your full, undivided attention and support.

As you look ahead to Middle School in the fall, how do you feel kids from other elementary schools will treat you once they learn about your food allergies?

But for now my goals are more modest: just more freshly prepared food, more whole foods, fewer highly processed and chemically - preserved entrees, and a more varied menu, particularly at the middle and high school levels, so we don't teach our kids it's OK to eat pizza and burgers five days a week, week in and week out.

Middle and high school kids need their parents to teach them how to be good people who do the right thing, online and off.

Just what should our early adolescent / middle school kids be able to do on their own?

All schools need do is follow the lead of Berkeley and other school districts that understand that tons of sugar can not be good for kids in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

I don't believe in forcing something on my kids, because if I did, they would end up bingeing on school lunches when they hit middle school.

73 % of low - income teens have little or no exposure to pathways to careers in science, and UL Xplorlabs does a great job of introducing middle school aged kids to a career as a fire investigator.

I don't know if my middle school kids actually grasp the concept of «social contract» but I think the way your school presents it is a great idea.

Typically, kids get new toys during the holiday season, right in the middle of the school year when they often don't have time to play with them.

But a three - year study of students in 12 middle schools determined that kids did accept the changes to their cafeteria trays.

But unless you are passing down a smart phone, I don't think middle school kids need a smart phone.

In response to a recent sampling event held at Orchard Park Middle School by HUMAN operator partners NFL player Jon Corto and his wife, Jen, reporter and doctor Peter Ostrow said of HUMAN's machines: ``... reading that LCD screen may encourage the kids to start reading labels, then they'll realize that the snacks they enjoy don't have to be loaded with fats, processed foods, and sugar.

As we've noted before, that blames a race - neutral exam for the failure of the city's primary and middle schools — and would do far more damage to the top schools than it would help aspiring minority kids.

Already, at 34 minutes per log - in, our kids are doing more science on Whyville than they're doing in middle school.

«Waimea Middle School really resonated because the impact it would have on the kids and it's a part of the community we don't get to interact with very often.»

Second, if I'm in a group fitness class with my friends, I turn into the naughty distracted kid in middle school gym class, just wanting to goof off with my friends and not do what I'm supposed to be doing.

With the kids out of school for only one week, I've already tired of the «I don't want that for dinner» comments, and with the Oldest and the Middle Child both capable of cooking simple meals, I've assigned them dinner prep for the next four days.

Wait Before You Date: «Some kids never or hardly ever dated; some kids did not date during middle school and started dating during high school.

«You must know, don't you, that [middle school] kids seem to delight in taunting and testing authority, especially if they feel that the disciplinary consequences are the least bit vague, incongruous, contradictory, or downright non-existent!»

Such frivolous charges are intended to distract from what TCS policies actually do: provide taxpayers with an incentive to help low - and middle - income families choose schools that work for their kids.

Parents and teachers report that kids read much less in middle and high school than they did in elementary school.

«Kids want to do a project that's real and engaging,» says Donna Cole, a middle school science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Pschool science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical PSchool, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Plates.

The more you're in this field, the more you begin to realize that once kids are struggling in middle school and high school, there are still things that can be done, but it's a steep climb.

Middle and high school kids in particular often demand to know the purpose of doing an assignment or of learning some seemingly irrelevant skill.

We can hope the neighbor's dog will stop barking in the middle of the night, we can hope that Brad and Angelina stay together long enough for their kids to enter therapy, and we can hope that our hair doesn't fall out before our next high school reunion.

Making STEM a Part of Everyday Life U.S. News & World Report, 5/6/14» «How do we, starting in the middle grades, give kids more exposure to the world on a systematic basis, so that by the time they arrive in high school, they are in a position to know how their interests and strengths align with careers so they can make intelligent choices about their career pathways?»

I've done this project with college kids, as well as with high school, middle - school, and upper - elementary students.

«I don't know if it was deliberate or not,» Trish Williams, executive director of EdSource, a California nonprofit, told me last winter, «but I know that when my kids were in middle school, one of the best in California, one of the teachers told me that her job was to just hold them and keep them safe until they get through puberty.

«Middle school kids need to have unwinding and reflecting time just as adults do,» Meyer tells Education World.

«The goal for us at King Middle School is to create opportunities for all kids to do representational work about their learning,» says David Grant, King's technology teaching strategist.

«I feel it is important to make the kids understand what they did wrong but not by punishing them with a skill in which we want them to excel,» Dana Arhar, a teacher at Immokalee Middle School in Immokalee, Florida, told Education World.

During the 1998 - 1999 school year, KIPP students scored higher in reading and mathematics than did kids in any other Bronx middle school program, Levin said.

By defining science education the way we too often do, we are turning middle school kids off to real learning.