Sentences with phrase «name of poor children»

Within the past 6 months, two large federal mandates in education have taken schools in contradictory directions — and both in the name of poor children.

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Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't you the child who, having been left an orphan by his poor mother and distanced himself from his father, went off to live the life of the kibbutz?

And in his annual Message for the World Day of Peace on 1 January 2009, Benedict XVI noted: «The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.»

It was in the period of Roman oppression that a child named Jesus was born to a poor Jewish couple, and the road, which had been buried by layers of war and oppression, was uncovered again.

One thing makes me feel very uncomfortable when I see parent fools their children by lying to them that an old dude with the name of Santa will come and get you gifts or anything you wish for... and they put things under the tree and make these poor children know that these are from Santa... and its being done generation after generation... parents now were victimized when they were child by their parents and they are repeating the same with their children and it is now in a loop and no one seems to be wanting to get out of the loop which is plain lie and very clear... but these poor children has nothing to do as they under the custody of these parents...

Neither was I crucified for anyone... How then should I — poor stinking maggot - fodder that I am — come to have men call the children of Christ by my wretched name?»

Few of us want to risk a completely new name on our infants that no one can spell, but we don't want the poor child to be the ninth kid in class with the same name, either.

One day while channel surfing, Schmidt decides to send money to a fund to help a poor child in Africa, Warren's being a six - year - old named Ngudu, he takes the opportunity to use the letters he writes to the boy as a way of logging his memoirs about his feelings on his life.

There are also more age - specific signs.Pre - school children may show: Persistent difficulty in learning nursery rhymes or the name for things, like «table» or «chair»; difficulty with clapping a simple rhythm; enjoyment of being read to but no interest in words or letters; delayed speech development; primary school children may show a poor sense of direction and confusion between left and right; pronounced reading difficulties, specifically hesitant or laboured reading, omitted lines or repetition of the same line or loss of place in the text and difficulties in saying multi-syllabic words.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

The elites, you know, get names like Phillips Exeter Kent Choate Miss Porter's etc, but the poor get Knowledge Is Power Achievement Character Building YES to Success and other such names that Roald Dahl's Miss Trunchbull could only dream of (except that she thought no children could achieve — she was the perfect school administrator!

Negative branding shaped by years of negative perceptions, many of these attributable to poor customer experiences — unresponsiveness, lack of transparency, and top - down bureaucratic decision - making, to name a few — has parents, and not their children, in search of schools that are committed to listening and attending to their needs.

In the name of reform, the Gates Foundation has wielded its political influence to effectively shift public funds, earmarked for the service of poor children, away from investment in those children's direct education experience.

That Dickensian ambition is cheekily explicit in «Purity,» which traces the unlikely rise of a poor, fatherless child named Pip.

Could somebody please explore how it is this country wants to borrow 700 billion dollars to bail out Wall Street; the slimy, greedy, scumbag CEO's affiliated with Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and Countrywide, to name just a few, but somehow we can't come up with the funds for the Hurricane Ike victims in Galveston, Texas, or the world's poorest CHILDREN, who happen to represent the future of this planet?

Children exposed to emotional abuse such as name - calling, manipulation and threats often suffer from poor self - esteem, worry, separation anxiety, clinginess and fear of failure, explains the website of Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse, a safe haven for persons experiencing domestic violence.

Those are my specialties but I also help with lack of emotional intimacy, poor communication, anger and destructive arguments, disagreements about child - rearing, interference by relatives, to name a few.

The irony of these poor folks with their adult daughters who appeared to produce children with anyone they dated and no one seemed to question six grand children with six different last names is that mom and dad were supposedly very active in their church.