Sentences with phrase «of wealthy kids»

So it must be full of wealthy kids, right?

A lot of the wealthy kids talk about being in a very competitive academic environment and the difficulty they find caring for each other in such an environment.

Nobody (including my children) «deserves» to participate in activities they can not pay for just because all of the wealthy kids are able to participate.

These are the kinds of experiences that can happen naturally in the lives of wealthier kids, says Barbic, experiences that help them deepen their education and broaden their own sense of possibility.

Not exact matches

«Buying a neighborhood is probably one of the most important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their means to improve their kids» lives effectively.

Thomas Corley is the author of «Rich Habits: The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals,» and «Rich Kids: How To Raise Our Kids To Be Happy And Successful In Life.»

One of Torabian's wealthiest clients, who wished to limit the amount of assets being transferred to his kids, chose a graduated approach, providing for the slow release of information about their future inheritance over the course of many years, allowing his children to «have their own experience» with acquiring wealth.

It will take a Sandy Hook every week, where children of wealthy and powerful kids get blown away — week after week, and where Zimmerman wannabes respond and the crossfire kills even more.

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

Here's my take: There are thousands of wealthy people whose children end up getting full rides to play a sport, including many former professional athletes whose kids end up playing in college.

We are one of the wealthiest states in the wealthiest country in the world, and we just shouldn't have hungry kids — that's one of my fundamental beliefs.

Despite representing a school where more than 60 % of the students are from low - income families, the chess team consistently beats wealthy kids from private schools and magnet schools.

He argues that the gap between poorer and wealthier kids» success levels is caused not mostly through lack of cognitive stimulation, but through a chaotic environm

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

He is a 64 - year - old father of two kids under the age of 10 years old and is personally wealthy.

They can also use accounting tricks to shift off their income onto less - wealthy people (e.g. give high - risk / high - return investments to their children; and keep low - income safer investments; or give high - paying jobs to their kids instead of themselves).

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza ignited the first controversy of his tenure early Friday when he tweeted out a story with the headline «Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.»

A new report released today by a group of education advocates argues that allowing New York City to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for Pre-K would benefit kids across the entire state.

In the meantime, the relentlessly ambitious and wealthy soft drink companies with their very hip life - style ads manage to seduce ever increasing numbers of consumers, most of them our kids.

Lady Bird abandons her devoted lower - class bestie, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), for a shallow, unambitious rich friend, Jenna (Odeya Rush), and two love interests from the wealthier side of the railroad tracks that divide Sacramento: first Danny (Lucas Hedges), a polite theater kid, then Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), a snobbish rebel rarely seen without a Howard Zinn book in hand.

Michael Konyves's script takes great pains to schematically lay out Barney's dying memories of how, in 1974 Rome, he married a beautiful, unfaithful bitch (Rachelle Lefevre), then after her suicide he wed the daughter (Minnie Driver) of a condescending wealthy family, and after experiencing love at first sight with Miriam (Rosamund Pike) on his second wedding night, he eventually tied the knot with her, had two kids, and ultimately destroyed that union via infidelity.

One of the late, great Vincent Schiavelli's finest moments: teaching a group of uptight, wealthy parents with missing kids how to smoke pot.

But while Clueless follows Emma on a point - for - point basis, its biggest similarities are still environmental, in the way the insular aristocrats of a small, wealthy village mirror the spoiled, perky kids of a Beverly Hills high school.

«The Riot Club» Synopsis: A young man arrives at Oxford University and is soon initiated into the Riot Club, a collection of some of the wealthiest and soon to be most powerful kids in Britain.

Margaret Blood: In the absence of a public policy commitment, we've allowed the market to take over and provide very high - quality services to a limited number of wealthy children and, for the most part, less - than - quality services to poor children, with lots of kids stuck in between.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

The problem, Lenz says, was that he «kept hearing how project - based learning was nice for wealthy, suburban kids, but, «kids in urban settings aren't going to be able to do this kind of work.

Wealthy districts that get additional funding from their taxpayers aren't likely to want to share it with out - of - district kids.

Aggressive charters are gobbling up huge numbers of poor kids, and not just those with the most motivated parents, creating an unlikely narrative whereby DCPS could end up as a redoubt of wealthy, Ward 3 students.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

When Liz went to work at The Edward Brooke Charter School, I studied the school and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational success.

They wanted to prove that a kind of education many wealthy kids get in private schools could work with poor kids too.

What we learn about the wealthy benefactor from how she helps some of her favorite kids is also pretty revealing.

Though kids at Hokitika are poorer and tend to arrive further behind, data shows the school has been successful at helping them catch up with the kids at the wealthier school by the end of primary school.

And there are plenty of non-wealthy DC parents who are seeking and finding opportunities for their kids, either in their own neighborhoods, in charter schools or in neighborhoods where the wealthy parents choose to avoid public schools.

Taking job creation, workforce development, transportation, healthcare, etc out of the conversation about kids in poverty (these aspects get little attention compared to schooling, even health doesn't come close) because schooling will take care of all that is just playing into the hands of corporate and wealthy interests.

But that's less about discipline and more about making sure our students have access to clothing that wealthier kids aren't differentiated from less wealthy kids by virtue of what clothes they can afford and those sorts of things.

Wealthy parents in Reseda can look into their children's educational career and see two options: Send their kids out of their own neighborhood to schools that have pretty low scores OR they can choose to send their kids to one of the several affordable private schools in the area.

We eliminated, for instance, Title 1 status because these days, sad to say, the percentage of poor kids a school needs to qualify (I think it's less than 40 percent) means some pretty wealthy schools like Wayzata's and Edina's get Title 1 funding.

The Lakeside School could then hire its own private limousines to take the kids of the very wealthy to and from their private schools - all paid for by Washington state tax payers!

Some of those children live in towns with high concentrations of poverty, and some are at - risk kids residing in wealthier communities, he said.

How could such a wealthy state have kids in this kind of situation?»

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

NDP: Cancel income splitting for families with kids under the age of 18 but keep it for seniors; eliminate the CEO stock option loophole that allows wealthy CEOs to avoid taxes on 50 % of income received from cashing in company stock (with proceeds invested into eliminating child poverty); increase investment in the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) by 15 % to further support working Canadians who live below the poverty line; introduce income averaging for artists.

Link to: The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy and The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money.

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«Like The Wealthy Barber, The Value of Simple is a great book to give to your brother, kid, friend, co-worker, or mistress who knows nothing about investing.

Scrolling back to the top of this article, it all goes to the definition of assets and liabilities and the fact that the wealthy teach their kids to focus on buying and creating assets and avoiding overspending on liabilities.