Sentences with phrase «often about their school day»

Not exact matches

The meals are often quite inventive and «grown - up», even though they do occasionally get burger and chips or chicken nuggets.And everything is cooked on site, served on real plates with real cutlery, but actual lunch ladies... That said, it's costly: I pay 4.40 $ (about the same in dollars, I guess) per meal per day, so that makes just over 35 $ a week (no school on Wednesdays).

By the time they are 15 or so they won't care about it but 3 - 8 especially like to feel special and celebrated and in day of invite all 24 classmates, school snack is often the only time they get.

People often ask me why I care so much about school food, and the answer is simple: of the 31 million kids who eat school food each day, about two - thirds do so out of need.

He was also able to visit some very remote schools and says he was amazed that while we often complain about not having access to wifi for a day, schools in remote India are doing great things with few resources.

I travel often and do site visits at schools, which allows me to engage with teachers, administrators, and students to hear about their day - do - day work and understand how policies and innovative practices are being implemented in local schools.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

Washington — About 98 percent of Principal John C. Hoffman's students go on to college, even though they only go to classes from 6:15 A.M. to 10 A.M. each day, hold down full - time jobs that often keep them up (and away from studies) until midnight, take no laboratory courses, and attend a school judged by a number of its former students to be «inferior» in many respects.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

Visitation Day: Parents «Walk in the Shoes» of Students Tight - lipped kids often keep their parents in the dark about school activities.

Because of my school's longer school day and school year, my mom did not have to worry about me hanging out on the streets unattended after school, or getting into trouble — something a lot of kids in my community often did.

When I listen to some charter network leaders talk about their models, they often openly state that they spend disproportionate amounts of the school day on tested subjects (English and math).

An English - as - a-second-language teacher told me about subjecting the school's large population of African immigrants to days of grueling standardized tests that they often did not understand.

One would be having students write about what they're studying, something schools don't often do these days.

I recently spoke to the ACE team about the concept we often invoked in the early days of a school turnaround in which I was involved — «confuse them with love.»

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

On the first day of the new school year (since this is my first time in a while not actually going back to school, I'm feeling a little nostalgic) people are often optimistic about what the year holds in store.

One married friend of mine, who just completed a master's program and had her son two days before my son was born, told me that one of her grad school study buddies would often give her a hard time about... More

When I was working in high schools around Los Angeles, I often saw kids who were starving by the last period of the day because they had already eaten their lunch by about 9:00 am.

One married friend of mine, who just completed a master's program and had her son two days before my son was born, told me that one of her grad school study buddies would often give her a hard time about being married with a baby at the age of 24.