Sentences with phrase «off white parents»

It is starting to mirror the opt - out movement, which was mostly driven by well - off white parents concluding that the «poor kids» tests meant to spark more accountability in poor neighborhoods did little for their kids.

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At the end of his sophomore year, Jeremy moved into a house just off Baylor's campus with three teammates: a black 800 - meter runner whose parents came from Kenya, a black long jumper from New Jersey and a white 400 - meter runner from Indiana.

This would be in the form of written material (off - line and on - line), a telephone helpline (ParentlinePlus is already promoted to parents around birth registration) and access to face - to - face support locally (e.g. as part of the relationship support infrastructure proposed elsewhere in the White Paper).

When we had our first born I created two White Noise MP3s — one a constant volume, the other fades across 2.5 hours (to wean her off it), I posted both online for other parents to download FREE: http://bobmckay.com/life/free-white-noise-mp3s-babies-infants/

Many parents have found that baking soda can help ward off odor, as can lavender oil, melaleuca oil in the wash, or white vinegar during the rinse cycle.

Compared with fathers heading households with two married parents, single dads are younger, less educated, less financially well - off and less likely to be white.

You can purchase the pillow with a plain white cover initially, but there are several options for extra covers (Buy on Amazon) in classic aden + anais muslin patterns, time - tested parent favorites in blankets, so you can zip one off when it's dirty and put a fresh one on in a flash.

Among white evangelical Protestants, 69 % say it's better for children if a parent is at home to focus on the family, and 26 % say children are just as well off when their parents work outside the home.

A professional doula from Columbus Birth & Parenting can help you learn what YOUR baby needs and a swaddle and white noise machine create the optimal environment for your little one to drift off to sleep and sleep soundly.

He promised that under today's white paper reforms, the agency's debts - half of which are owed to parents looking after children - «will not be routinely written off» and said the CSA and C - Mec would use «every power available» to recover it.

-- School buses slid through slippery streets, sparking outrage from white - knuckled drivers and parents, who noted that de Blasio's «stay off the roads» mandate to residents conflicted with the order for kids to get to school

WHITE PLAINS — Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton told some 300 people at a School Safety Symposium at Purchase College Wednesday parents, teachers, police, fire and other first responders need to work together to help stave off incidents of violence like the Newtown, CT tragedy.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

Racist parents against daughter, white girl dating a black man Imagine your parent saying cutting you off just because of dating a black man.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Those are practically the first words that aspiring photographer Chris Washington (Sicario's Daniel Kaluuya) speaks to his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), just before they drive off to white surburbia 2.0 for a weekend meet and greet with her parents, the epitome of white privilege.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

When Johnson left TFA and joined Larchmont as its executive director, however, the school was facing a challenge experienced by many diverse charter schools: the annual admissions lottery was being flooded by white, relatively well - off parents, creating the danger that the school would lose the socioeconomic and racial diversity it was created to promote.

There are way bigger problems in the world, but this NYT claim about white parents flocking to private schools in DC still seems way off.

In response, well - off parents put their 4 - year - olds into test prep programs — and the gifted program in the city became even whiter.

Likewise, issues surrounding school discipline loom large, with middle - class standards of behavior and decorum recast as a form of cultural hegemony imposed by well - off, mainly white parents intent on remaining in control.

Like the for - profit prisons, these corporate minded charters are institutions primarily controlled by White benefactors who make their money off of the backs, and yes gullibility, of desperate Black parents.

But White speaks for many anti-Common Core parents around the country when she notes: «We've already been through eight years of «transformational change» in public education and we don't need any more... I want a [n] Education] Secretary to hand off responsibility over education to the parents where it belongs... Yet, here is DeVos «ensuring» me of «opportunities» for my children — whom she doesn't know — in order to make sure she can benevolently «give» my kids what they need to fulfill their «highest potential» — which is MY job.»

State Commissioner John King and the Board of Regents dismissed parent complaints, and Secretary Arne Duncan brushed them off as the whining of «white suburban moms» who were disappointed to learn that their child was not as brilliant as they thought and their public school was not as good as they thought.

Tags: Cathie Black, John White, Mayor Bloomberg, mayoral control, Paul Vallas, school superintendents Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on NYC parents happy — NOLA parents sad

In the middle of the white wooden floor, a girl was being carried around on a guy's shoulders, crying, «BENNETT, STOP IT, I»M GOING TO FALL OFF AND DIE, AND THEN MY PARENTS WILL SUE YOUR VISUAL ARTS ASS!»

Because the hungry pets of the homeless are being joined more and more by the hungry pets of people who simply are having trouble making ends meet... middle - class folks pummeled by the economy, white - collar workers recently laid off; the unemployed, the underemployed, single parents, heroic victims of domestic violence, proud war veterans, the disabled, fixed income seniors and more.

Her teeth have been ignored and now they are clean and white, she lets her foster parents scrape the plaque off and brush them with very little resistance.

Compared with fathers heading households with two married parents, single dads are younger, less educated, less financially well - off and less likely to be white.