Sentences with phrase «middle school kids in»

As they worked with elementary and middle school kids in Nantucket, there was no scary talk or preachy message — simply an exercise in trying to step out of now and look forward to what coasts could look like when today's children are elders.

It would let middle school kids in the Basin and in Park City proper to attend schools near their homes, while still allowing the district to move ninth - graders into Park City High School.

Well my friends, who knew that a) pretty much the entire catalog of full episodes of Wild Kingdom are available on YouTube, and b) middle school kids in the year 2016 are also utterly enthralled by it?

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One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

There was no better way to become a popular kid in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.

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.

On another local level, try to find the time to become a Big Brother or Big Sister, or volunteer at an elementary or middle school to make sure kids have a good, reliable influence in their lives.

Note: I enjoyed this book in spite of the narration on audible - the narrator's tone sounded like a high class 40 year old rather than a middle school / high school kid.

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

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

The high schools battle each other to attract students and athletes from the Catholic elementary and middle schools for years before any of those kids will have the opportunity to don their colors in the Holy Bowl.

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.

In the meantime, says his volleyball coach Lou Panzella, Marcus will be the same friendly kid he first saw play as an eighth grader at Black Diamond middle school.

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

In middle school I had been placed in an accelerated algebra class with a dozen other kids under the assumption that we would all be able to thrive in advanced courses designed for students two years our senioIn middle school I had been placed in an accelerated algebra class with a dozen other kids under the assumption that we would all be able to thrive in advanced courses designed for students two years our senioin an accelerated algebra class with a dozen other kids under the assumption that we would all be able to thrive in advanced courses designed for students two years our senioin advanced courses designed for students two years our senior.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

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.

The Wapakoneta Middle School in Ohio has reportedly decided to pander to bigots given the parents of seventh graders the options to have their kids skip the lesson on Islam because «some topics are sensitive,» the principal said to Buzzfeed.

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 schooIn 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 schooin 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 schooin school, as well as get junk food marketing out of the schools so that kids have healthier food options while they are in schooin 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 frustrationIn 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 frustrationin frustration).

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

In middle school, more homework and big projects hijacked precious family weekends — just when my kids needed more sleep, more time to adjust to their rapidly changing brains, and more healthy time with friends, and when my husband and I needed some rest.

The American Pediatrics Association recommends just one hour per day outside of school time for elementary - age students and two hours for kids in middle school through high school.

It was my middle daughter who first set me on a journey to feeding kids in schools.

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.

Anyone who has kids in school knows that by the middle of May all that anyone thinks about and cares about is SUMMER!

«A lot of kids in middle school are struggling around that time thinking, oh, math and science aren't for me, especially girls,» says Kristen Vogt, museum manager of education and events.

while far from conclusive, has raised alarm bells among some in the youth sports community and prompted at least one leading concussion expert, Dr. Robert Cantu, MomsTeam's concussion expert emeritus, to recently recommend that kids not play such sports until middle or high school, at least under current rules.

Once the elementary school implementation was deemed a success, Beegle turned her attention to the middle and high school, rolling out the equipment in those cafeterias and acclimating the older kids to the new additions.

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.

As Geoffrey Canada put it in one conversation I quote in my book, «The question is, can you build a system where kids in middle school won't need these kinds of interventions in order to be successful?

As a lunch lady in a middle school, I can tell you by keeping pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs off the menu's will just have kids go hungry.

Havelock Middle School has implemented an intermediary «Second Chance» breakfast program, served between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., for students who miss the 7 a.m. cafeteria meal; the school received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in scSchool has implemented an intermediary «Second Chance» breakfast program, served between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., for students who miss the 7 a.m. cafeteria meal; the school received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in scschool received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in schools.

As if we're all worried that our kids will enter middle school still in diapers because we failed to teach them soon enough.

While many schools require foreign language instruction in middle or high school, parents are also choosing to teach their kids foreign... more

Some parents choose to give their kids more freedom in middle and high school as they show an increase in personal responsibility.

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:

I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

Kids in middle school bully others to protect their image and improve their social status.

These kids are often in middle school and are quickly approaching puberty and all the challenges that come with adolescence.

Bullying occurs more often in the middle school and early teen years because kids are transitioning from being a child to an adolescent.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar... [Continue reading]

The principal once said that being able to buy junk food was part of the «allure» of attending middle school in our district, and the district food services manager insists that kids have a right to a «treat» every day if they want one (never mind that some of them are eating only «treats»).

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

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.

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.

(By definition, the recent middle - school project I write about in the book can't possibly be responsible for any recent change in college - graduation rates; the kids receiving character growth cards at KIPP Infinity are many years away from college.)