Sentences with phrase «middle school parents who»

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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.

And gong the way a parent received advice on her daughter's middle - school struggles, and a young mom found an older woman who was eager to baby - sit.

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.

As a middle school educator, I find myself in conversations with parents who are convinced of the value of play, but are unsure what play might look like for a middle school student.

• 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 al, 2007).

Elbert County Middle School parents read «Who Grew My Soup» at Parent / Student Literacy Night and enjoyed minestrone soup that included collard greens grown in the Middle School garden.

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.»

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

For instance, when researchers tracked American middle and high school studies over 18 months, they found that kids who identified their parents as more authoritarian were more likely to reject their parents as legitimate authority figures.

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.

We heard today from parents in public housing, in middle school deserts, from parents who are upset about the ATR pool and those who want more school choices.

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.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

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.

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.

Your middle schooler will surprise you when he gets to high school, he'll handle it like a pro it's us parents who have a hard time, lol!

The story, which spans 25 years over the four parts, focuses on Olive, a middle - school math teacher, and her relationships with Henry, the good - hearted town pharmacist, their son Christopher, who chafes at his mother's parenting style, and other denizens of their community.

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.

The contracts have become the hallmark of a small new school in Massachusetts created not by a nonprofit network or a private foundation, but by an unlikely team: six parents who felt it was the only option for their soon - to - be middle schoolers.

Now, these schools have students from parents who belong to the middle class or above.

Dear graduates of 2010, deans, administrators, faculty, staff, parents, friends, other students, acquaintances, and that guy in the back who mistook this for a free food event, I asked my middle school history teacher what I should say today.

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One high school - level unit, for instance, investigates a teen who accidentally totals her parents» car; a middle school caper involves a dognapping.

Facing a dilapidated set of facilities that discouraged academic improvement and scared off middle - class parents, Vallas and the equally ambitious Chico, who recently announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate, embarked on a $ 2.5 billion school construction and renovation program that was at one point the largest building project in the nation, according to Vallas.

Moran recently noticed that a parent had shared on Facebook a photo of Albemarle students who won an international robotics championship, and she jumped right in and commented, «I'm so proud that we have robotics teams in all of our high schools, and even our middle schools and elementary schools do a lot with robotics.»

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.

Marcy Cooper, a principal at Southern Middle School, near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, says she makes a point of asking school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary School, near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, says she makes a point of asking school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary school staff and parents about military spouses who may be deployed, and she grants excused absences to students whose parents are coming home on temporary leave.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

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.

This argument resonates with many middle - class parents, who clutch to their hope to win admission to a «good» district school, no matter how unlikely that may be.

If children who are experiencing success in schools or for whom schools generally «work» (that is, white, middle - class, nondisabled children) don't participate in the assessment, their parents lose valuable information.

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«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.

In the same year, 89 percent, each, of students in kindergarten through second grade, and students in third through fifth grade, had a parent who attended a scheduled meeting with a teacher, compared with 71 percent of students in middle school and 57 percent of students in high school.

This course has been created for those who shape the learning experiences of girls in schools - this might mean teachers, middle and senior leaders in schools, school governors and parents.

The statewide scores also got a bump from a new state law that allowed elementary and middle school students who failed the exams by slim margins to retake them with a parent's permission.

In 2012, more than 90 percent of students in kindergarten through fifth grade had a parent who attended a meeting with their teachers, compared with 87 percent of middle - school students, and 79 percent of ninth - through twelfth - grade students.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot focuses on the experiences of 11 individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.

Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.

National experts on charter school discipline, along with local parents and teachers who have experienced no - excuses and restorative justice school environments will make up the panel set to convene November 17th at Margaret Allen Middle School, 500 Spence Lane in Nashville at 6:school discipline, along with local parents and teachers who have experienced no - excuses and restorative justice school environments will make up the panel set to convene November 17th at Margaret Allen Middle School, 500 Spence Lane in Nashville at 6:school environments will make up the panel set to convene November 17th at Margaret Allen Middle School, 500 Spence Lane in Nashville at 6:School, 500 Spence Lane in Nashville at 6:30 pm.

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«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

As Eva Moskowitz puts it: «If (we) backfilled older grades... the incoming students» lower relative academic preparation would adversely affect the schools» other students... We have an obligation to the parents in middle and high school, and the kids in middle and high school, that until the district schools are able to do a better job, it's not really fair for the seventh - grader or high school student to have to be educated with a child who's reading at a second - or third - grade level.»

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».

«As a governor of a maintained school in a deprived community... we were always at a disadvantage to the school on the other side of town with lots of middle - class parents who raised lots of extra cash for their school.»

Perhaps unsurprisingly it is the middle classes who have the money and drive to make the move: almost a third of professional parents in social groups A and B has moved to an area which they thought had good schools, and 18 % have moved to live in the catchment area of a specific school.

Families may consider grade spans in their school selection — K - 5 for families who want their child to transition to a middle school; K - 8 for parents who want their child to stay in one setting until high school.

The voucher program works like this: Taxpayer subsidies go to lower - and middle - income parents who choose to send their children to private and religious schools.