Sentences with phrase «middle school kids get»

«Anywhere you go, you hear parents saying that middle school kids get left out,» said Figaro, the coordinator of the Park District's program.

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Well, if you want to broaden it to an awareness of some manifestation of «cool Christianity,» I think that I started noticing it very early on... such as when I started getting into Christian rock in middle school, or going to concerts and festivals where, alongside the typical Sunday School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup,school, or going to concerts and festivals where, alongside the typical Sunday School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup,School nerdy kids there were also kids with tattoos, mohawks, goth makeup, etc..

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.

He argues some well - off, middle - class families are «faking their faith» to get their kids into the best schools:

I used to get verbally bullied every day in middle school and high school, by kids that are half my size.

Something tells me this kid is going to get beat up in a lot of fights in middle school and high school.

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.

In addition, the MomsRising members have helped get every child in elementary, middle school and high school access to healthier foods in school, as well as get junk food marketing out of the schools so that kids have healthier food options while they are in school.

In elementary and middle schools, the end of the school year tends to bring with it a long string of outdoor games, field trips, and parties, as teachers let kids rejoice over having made it through to June (and try to keep them from getting so much spring fever that they actually gnaw through their desks in frustration).

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

This type of bullying becomes more and more evident as kids get into middle school and junior high.

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

Here is a new piece from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, who has written some popular posts, including «Why so many kids can't sit still in school today,» as well as «The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class» and «A therapist goes to middle school and tries to sit still.

Once kids get into middle school and high school, the hour or two after school is the highest risk time for dangerous behaviors like substance abuse, because it's the largest chunk of time when kids are unmonitored.

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.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

«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.»

Imagine «Mean Girls» for the soccer mom set, and you've got some idea of the horrors that await Amy every time she drops off her two kids at McKinley Middle School, an institution ruled by the iron fist of PTA president Gwendolyn James (Christina Applegate).

Adults who haven't forgotten the fears and traumas of middle school will no doubt get a few hearty chuckles from director Thor Freudenthal's adaptation of Jeff Kinney's popular «Novel in Cartoons,» but make no mistake, this one's primarily for the kids.

Later, teaching middle and high school history (an equally tough sell by the way), one of my goals was always to get kids jazzed about learning.

When telling adults that I was getting on a plane with middle schoolers to take them across the country to the mountains of southern Arizona, many asked the same worried questions: «How many kids are going?

Michael Shaffer of McCulloch Middle School in Marion, Indiana, is another principal who gets most frustrated when he sees good kids fail.

«We have a lot of kids who get a lot of attention, and we're trying to level out the playing field,» says Debbie Ames, Epstein's cultural events coordinator for the middle school.

Washington Post education writer Linda Perlstein, however, actually wanted to «embed» herself in a middle school to get to know the kids, their families, and their issues.

«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.

«It's one thing to say we're getting kids back in school; it's another thing to know they're back in class,» said Curtis Watkins, the director of LifeSTARTS, which works with youngsters in two Washington, D.C., middle schools.

The numbers edge higher as kids get older, too: Almost 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent, compared to 12 percent of middle - schoolers and 10 percent of elementary - school students.

She has two kids — one is getting ready for college, the other is a special ed student in middle school.

«I don't know if it was deliberate or not,» recalls Trish Williams, executive director of EdSource, a California nonprofit, «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.

«For primary school kids and for middle school kids and for high school kids and when you go to college, you get a grade.

Particularly for black, Latino, and even the few Native middle - class families, they want their kids to both get college preparatory curricula and still be around peers of their own race and ethnicity — especially those who are also doing well in school — in order to build self - pride.

In this activity meant for kids from elementary through middle school, students practice what to say and how to break the ice as a way of getting to know others when beginning a new friendship.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

And he's the kind of teacher who gets emotional when he talks about the dedication he and his fellow teachers have for the kids at Glendale Middle School in Salt Lake City, Utah.

«You have a lot of kids who get pushed into algebra when they're not ready,» said Mark Stolan, a math teacher at Quimby Oak Middle School in San Jose.

Instead, Brooklyn Castle chronicles a messy reality — that of Intermediate School 318, a Brooklyn middle school where 70 percent of the kids live below the poverty line, and where funding cuts are threatening the after - school activities that are key to getting many of them enSchool 318, a Brooklyn middle school where 70 percent of the kids live below the poverty line, and where funding cuts are threatening the after - school activities that are key to getting many of them enschool where 70 percent of the kids live below the poverty line, and where funding cuts are threatening the after - school activities that are key to getting many of them enschool activities that are key to getting many of them engaged.

Again, this is just my opinion, but kids who don't get to go to a «middle school» are missing out on a very important experience that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Our schools (are) not getting kids into the middle class.»

«They control their school systems and they're held accountable for getting kids into the middle class.

By the time many kids — especially low - income kids — get to middle or high school, they lack so much knowledge that grade - level material is far beyond their reach.

When busing ended I had the sense that many in Denver felt that the district could get back to business as usual, maintaining traditional neighborhood schools and creating magnets seemingly designed to keep white middle class kids in the district.

The last time Bivens got together with principals in the Lincoln Cluster, he gave them an assignment: Survey parents at their elementary and middle schools and find out why they send their kids to schools outside the neighborhood.

School choice is really a vehicle for the «less well off» (i.e. lower and middle classes) to get a better education for their kids.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

For decades, the life cycle of the young, middle - class D.C. resident has gone something like this: Move to the District, get a good job, meet a nice boy or girl, get married, have a kid and — faced with mediocre public schools or the prospect of tens of thousands of dollars in yearly private school tuition — move to the suburbs.

Skyhorse's childhood years were full of undeniable pain, but enthusiasm for storytelling and role - playing got him through middle school (when he was the «fat kid»), high school (when he «came out» as Mexican and fought Latino stereotypes), and, impressively enough, Stanford.

I'm thinking of the kid in middle school just discovering sci - fi who gets turned on to reading, science, or writing because he / she read my stories.