Sentences with phrase «most white parents»

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Perhaps the most important part of that strategy relies on Target resolving its distribution woes and stocking shelves this August with everything a parent or kid could want on a back - to - school list, as well as those special items they can't find at other stores (Shaun White's collection of skate shoes and apparel, for instance).

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle - class Christian parents, a fact that — through no merit of my own — has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

iDolls are a most modern take on a noise machine or other lovey — with built - in speakers and an MP3 port safely tucked away inside, parents can download their favorite music or sounds, and the cute dolly (Lulu in pink or Pax in blue) plays whatever music, message, or white noise mom or dad has downloaded.

Additionally, as one of the most comprehensive surveys of Hispanic parents» attitudes concerning online safety, the study indicates that Hispanic children are highly engaged with technology (69 % of Hispanic parents say their child has three or more devices that connect to the Internet, compared to 55 % of white parents who say that about their child.

Potty training takes an insane amount of time, energy, and absolute patience, which are all things that most parents white knuckle their way into acquiring.

The color of the power cord was an irritant for most parents because it does not match the white camera and can not be seen in the dark.

I loathe the way that «journalists» like Nancy Grace harp on every missing child story (missing white child, anyway) and how most parents in my own community give cell phones to their second graders.

The study, which started in 1998 and has been funded by the federal government through 2009, is following 5,000 African - American, Latino and white children born in 21 cities, most to unmarried parents under the age of 25.

Something else that takes most parents by surprise is that baby girls often have a white vaginal discharge following birth, as well as one or two days of blood streaks.

While I still believe in attachment theory and consider myself to be an attachment parent, through my experiences with our babies I have come to realize that this issue, as with most of life's issues, is not black and white.

Many brown parents will tell their Western raised sons that white women are sluts who never cook or clean (I was basically taught Red Pill 101 Indian women are the most beautiful and attractive in the world.

Between the bombast and the excess, what I enjoy most is Bay's skittish, eager - to - please - abandoned - puppy sense of humor, exemplified best by the Transformers trilogy's scenes with Kevin Dunn and Julie White as Sam Witwicky's (Shia LaBeouf) TMI - prone parents.

I already knew most of the premise - african american guy goes to meet his girlfriend's white parents and they re crazy.

Most of the same key players are back: Shia LaBeouf as Sam (friend to Optimus Prime), John Turturro (having cashed in on his 10 min of fame), Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson as soldiers, and Kevin Dunn and Julie White as Sam's parents in a couple of throw away scenes that cost much less than the CGI that dominates the movie.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

Everywhere, except in the most exceptional cases, we have seen the resistance of suburban white parents to sending their children to inner - city schools with near majorities or majorities of black children.

The current reality is that most education reporters have more in common, racially and otherwise, with educators (still mostly white, college - educated women), and with well - educated parents who are making decisions about their own children's education.

In two of the school districts he visited, white parents tended to be the ones most involved in the parent — teacher associations.They know, for example, about mathematics placement tests in fifth grade that dictated which classes students will take.

Among ethnic groups, white parents were the most likely to say they visited the school often (83 percent), and Asian parents were the least likely to do so (68 percent).

Adam Kelley, an eighth - grader at Roland Park who lives on a predominantly white street in the neighborhood, said he was glad his parents chose not to send him to a private school where most students look like him.

In 2013, he briefly suggested that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was «impolitic» to place opposition to the Common Core State Standards upon «white, suburban moms» who don't want to find out that their children are not brilliant — just before he jumped in and declared that Secretary Duncan was right to be concerned that «a laudable set of guidelines» would be rejected for making kids work too hard, characterized most opposition to the standards as «welling hysteria» from the right and left wing, and chided parents concerned about the increasing lack of joy in school with declarations that portions of school ought to be «relatively mirthless» while blaming stories of students breaking down from stress upon their parents.

At boisterous meetings in Lafayette, Calcasieu and Jefferson parishes, irate parents — most of them white — began to complain about elementary school math homework culled from a Common Core website designed by educators in New York state, often referred to as Eureka Math.

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Unlike its parent bank, BankMobile is aggressively chasing #millennials (despite the fact that most of the leadership team is old white guys).

The population was predominantly white, and most parents had graduated from high school.