Sentences with phrase «middle schools do»

For example, elementary and middle schools do not have school resource officers (SROs) on site, but SROs are assigned to a high school and respond to feeder schools within the cluster when needed.

Most KIPP middle schools do not have higher levels of attrition than nearby district schools.

Both communities have seen a significant surge in their youth populations, and the existing public middle schools do not have enough seats to comfortably serve the growing number of students.

Another widespread problem is that most middle schools do not put forth common expectations for the content knowledge and skills needed by all students to be ready for high school work.

After all, most middle schools don't track the college completion rate of their alums.

But middle school does offer many perks, as well.

Grades Matter: Your child isn't yet in high school, but grades in middle school do matter to your child and his or her future educational experience.

Popularity Matters to Tweens: Parents hope their children won't place too much importance on popularity, but a middle schooler does care about whether or not he or she is liked and accepted by his or her peers.

While the middle schools did their best to comply with the new, more rigorous federal nutrition standards, most were not fully compliant.

We planned these activities with high - schoolers in mind and some of the middle schoolers did it faster than the high schoolers!»

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

«My middle school didn't have any procedures, and my teachers didn't know what to do,» reflects Miles Sanchez, a ninth - grade bisexual and transgender student in Colorado.

Though it's the kind of steamy July day that's more conducive to swimming than studying, the dozen African - American teenagers gathered in a circle at Clio Elementary and Middle School don't seem to mind as they engage in an intense discussion of Hero for Democracy, a biography of Nelson Mandela.

In a 2003 story for the Middle School Journal, they argue that there is «hard evidence that the middle school does in fact work,» but they don't supply that evidence.

Due to these low pass rates, Thomas Harrison Middle School did not meet full accreditation standards and was put on a three - year watch list by the state.

Trace Middle School didn't have the world's strictest dress code, but Roy was pretty sure that some sort of footwear was required.

That's the reason the FHA is busy trying to end delinquencies while distant loan owners who don't shop in your ZIP code and have never seen the local middle school don't care.

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September, some of the students at Charlotte's Ranson Middle School didn't like what they saw.

One associate told us about «a relationship with Junior Achievement which does outreach to middle schools doing programs on business and finance.»

Westglades Middle School did not exist at the time, so all of the students in need of a parking space would park there.

The Middle School did not meet expectations set during the admissions process.

Even when right now I am in middle school we don't even get seconds.

Not exact matches

It's a marketplace of distraction, with all the charm of a middle - school cafeteria and comparable levels of useful work being done.

The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.

What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that.

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.

pc — so you never have anything of substance to add, you like name calling like a middle schooler and you think you are clever referring to comments you don't agree with as NO True Scotsman.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

Why Middle - School Girls Talk Like Babies — And What Teachers Can Do About It by Jessica Lahey for The Atlantic

It makes you look like you did not graduate middle school.

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.

Creationism was born when a bunch of rednecks failed middle school science class, scratched their heads and went «Wait a minute, this don't make no sense!

Sorry, I didn't care when a bunch of my friends tried to get me to go to some gospel rally of his when I was in middle school.

When more than 250 Nigerian girls are abducted from a school in the middle of the night, saying «God has a plan» doesn't really help.

Frank Riessman, The Culturally Deprived Child [New York: Harper, 1962]-RRB- This is why middle - class talk therapies are inadequate and why the poor may not do well in middle - class - oriented school systems which emphasize verbal skills, abstract reasoning, and knowledge for knowledge's sake.

I don't even really want to see your children in school next to mine, but since I have no control over that, keep your stone throwing, women hating views in the middle east where they belong.

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

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

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.

Ron Haskins of the Economic Mobility Project puts it this way: «If young people do three things — graduate from high school, get a job, and get married and wait until they're 21 before having a baby — they have an almost 75 percent chance of making it into the middle class.»

I remember taking comparative religion classes in school... albeit I did go to a catholic school and part of it was to show the differences, and I had the first such class whe I was in «middle school» 7th grade.

So much of what I do is on the other side of a computer, just me pecking away here at my sticky laptop in the middle of my pink 90s kitchen while Evelynn naps and the older tinies are at school.

The principal effort in this area was the Sunday School Movement, founded in 1918 by Habib Jirjal, an educated layman of the middle class, who decided that the political and religious movements then current in Egypt did not serve Coptic interests.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

I love it when some sh!twit like Leo bashes our public schools and does so in a post in which he capitalizes words like «school» and «church» in the middle of a sentence.

What she fails to realize is that anybody can do what she's dooing — the rest of us have just moved past such a middle schooler tactic.

So they wanted to know, what should they be thinking about when someone stands up in the middle of the congregation and decides to do something similar as we saw in the schools.»

While we have no detailed picture of instruction in Alexandria, we do have a rather vivid description of his courses in Caesarea, which we may take as representative of the two schools, and, in a measure, of the best catechetical instruction in general at the middle of the third century.