Sentences with phrase «of middle school parents»

Not surprisingly, responses also differed by grade level, with perceptions of safety decreasing as grade level increased: 88 percent of elementary school parents, 70 percent of middle school parents, and 63 percent of parents of high school students felt that their child's school was safe.

Nonetheless, a survey of middle school parents found 86 percent approved a later start time.

Not exact matches

In Portland, Maine, some parents protested a year or so ago because the school board okayed the distribution of condoms in a middle school.

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.

For what I have just described are in fact the very questions that many of California's middle and high school children may now be asked to answer, unless they or their parents choose to opt out.

when i was in middle school and all i wanted was to be a grungy pre-teen, my parents (usually my trooper mom) would take me down to the broadway location of UO in nyc just so i could spend my allowance on waffle henleys, flannels, and painter jeans - but that's another story!

However, because it appeared that he would be an NCAA nonqualifier the following fall, his parents pulled him out of the school in the middle of his senior year and sent him to Valley Forge (Pa.) Military Academy in January 2001.

Each year, one of the administrators from the middle school tells a story to incoming parents.

Some parents within the high, middle, and even elementary schools of the district began to form a retaliation campaign, and spread their arguments through the distribution of «anti-GPA-reform» pamphlets at our community meetings.

We organized a series of panel - style presentations by our student committee members for mostly middle school parents, whose children the proposal would have affected.

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.

Getting to know parents of your children's classmates and the school's surrounding community is crucial to developing a well - rounded middle - schooler.

Since World War II robbed her of an education beyond middle school and Hitler robbed her of her home and her parents, what choice did she have but to marry and thus guarantee herself U.S. citizenship?

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.

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.

Well somebody didn't read their Harry Potter, because an Ohio middle school is actually allowing some parents to opt their children out of part of the state social studies curriculum on the grounds that they don't want their kids learning about Muslims.

Unfortunately, many parents of middle - school - age children don't have Appelbaum's sanguine attitude.

He served as a member of the parent education committee at Marin Academy High School and was a prior chair at Marin Primary & Middle School.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

(Yet when it comes to the Stanford test, which has no bearing on these issues but which is important to parents because it plays a role in middle school acceptance, we get, like, two days of casual review.)

One way parents can help their tweens stay on top of their studies is to familiarize themselves with the middle school syllabus sheets that children bring home.

Middle schoolers can expect an increase in homework, and projects and parents should help their children develop skills of independence and responsibility, as teachers and others will expect more from them.

Over the last 24 years, Mrs. Harrison became involved in a number of volunteer activities, including the Girl Scouts, the First Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn's Women's Association, the Glen Ellyn Newcomers Club, Infant Welfare and the Parent - Teacher Associations at Westfield School, Glen Crest Middle School and Glenbard South High School.

Dealing with a pre-teen in middle school and all of the changes — both emotional and physical — those years bring can make it seem like the most trying period of parenting.

«Anywhere you go, you hear parents saying that middle school kids get left out,» said Figaro, the coordinator of the Park District's program.

And, because we know middle school isn't the only time for parents to have ongoing conversations with youth about sexuality topics, we offer age - appropriate workshops for parents of children in early childhood, elementary and high school.

«The principal of our middle school wanted to get the soda and junk and chips out of our school cafeteria and needed a parent to help.

One ad features a middle - aged dad with a goatee telling a group of fellow parents that his first - grader cried when he came home from school, apparently too tired to go to karate practice.

We whispered like middle schoolers, heckled waiters, talked over each other, and on many occasions, laughed until we cried about the absurd realities of marriage, sex, parenting, minivans, in - laws, and the latest Anna Nichole Smith drama.

The Wapakoneta Middle School gives parents the option of pulling their children from an Islamic studies lesson.

It's quite another story if a typically - developing child in middle school or high school needs his parents to help him keep track of his schoolwork.

Parenting children through the preteen years means making sure they are ready for the challenges of middle school.

These include Whisconier Middle and Brookfield High School Support Services Staff, as well as the Prince of Peace Preschool Staff in Brookfield, while offering parenting classes in Brookfield and surrounding towns.

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.»

With common - sense advice on how to stand back and let your children learn through their mistakes — including an entire chapter on navigating the hormone - drenched middle school years — this book is one of my new favorite parenting manuals.

A group of west - side Pasco County parents whose neighborhood might be reassigned to different middle and high schools has asked the School Board to consider different options they suggest would cost less money and angst.The parents, including...

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Warren — I spend a lot of time at a middle school where most kids are free range because their parents are working two and three jobs.

Applying Baumrind's parenting typology to high schools: Toward a middle - range theory of authoritative socialization.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

Even when they're older and in middle school, or even in high school and driving themselves, I'm sure there will still be plenty of parenting tasks to keep me lying awake at night.

Many of the factors that affect students during the middle school transition are beyond parents» control.

I also raised the possibility of a middle ground solution, already instituted by some school districts, of lowering the sugar content and removing objectionable ingredients from flavored milk before banning it altogether, to the extent many parents and nutritional experts still want to see it in school lunch rooms.

Here is an example: At my oldest child's middle school some of the parents were complaining about the school lunches.

From your reports and those of other middle school parents, I'm sure I'm going to be horrified.

Whether it's first grade or off to middle school, the start of the new school year comes with some stress on kids and parents alike.

And his call to cut spending by 20 percent — I would use examples of how that would impact middle class families, parents, what it would do to schools — I would make Carl defend all that.»

NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of EduSchools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Eduschools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Education.

Also at 6 p.m., board members and leaders of Middle Village Prep will update parents and others on the Brooklyn Diocese's lawsuit seeking to evict the school from space at Christ the King High School, 68 - 02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village, Qschool from space at Christ the King High School, 68 - 02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village, QSchool, 68 - 02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village, Queens.