Sentences with phrase «old boarding school»

Brought to a special camp for gods - in - training, a 17 year - old boarding school drop - out, upon discovering that he's Poseidon's half - human son, embarks on a cross-country trip with a satyr / protector and Athena's daughter to save his kidnapped mother, retrieve Zeus» stolen lightning bolt, and prevent a deadly war between the gods.

Were these schools to be celebrated for their prescriptiveness over matters of student behavior and character, or should they be criticized as racist, classist institutions, not unlike the old boarding schools for American Indian children?

Religious affiliation: Nondenominational Grades: 9 - 12 / PG School Type: Coeducational, boarding school, day school Comments: Founded in 1794, Cheshire Academy is one of the oldest boarding schools in the U.S., and is the first private school in Connecticut to offer the diploma programme.

The design takes its cue from my old boarding schools tie, but the stripes are grey instead of blue and the direction of the stripes is conform to American tradition instead of European.

Not exact matches

She began working as soon as she was old enough, as a babysitter, waitress, table busser and switch - board operator — «name a crappy job [and] I've done it,» she jokes — and when her grades remained near - perfect despite all those extracurricular activities, she switched to a more challenging private school.

While Gori took advantage of a cutting - edge funding platform and all the social - media tools at his disposal, he also used one of the world's oldest marketing techniques: He put on a sandwich board and walked in a parade and at a school festival, passing out fliers.

Noah Ready - Campbell, who grew up in a small mountain town in Vermont, and Calvin Young, a Chinese immigrant whose family settled in the Virginia when he was 2 years old, both landed scholarship admission to boarding school (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectischool (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectiSchool of Science and Mathematics, respectively).

A 16 - year - old high school student who said he was frustrated with his teachers unleashed an attack on the Osaka Board of Education server that took 444 elementary, junior high and high school networks offline, investigators said.

Creativity pick of the day: A Mondelez chocolate brand paired up with Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam to make an old - school board game, as Ad Age's Alexandra Jardine writes.

Some tablet computers have white board capabilities so there's a not - so - old - school option for using this strategy.

From Uganda, the site of the ICC's prosecutorial experiments, comes the story of Charlotte, abducted from her Catholic boarding school by the LRA in 1996 when she was thirteen years old.

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

At my old high school the school board marked the wrong day off its calendar — for a MUSLIM holiday — and some 63 % of students didn't show and we were forced to make that day up.It isn't just a matter of counting days, though, I would argue.

Whole tomatoes will sink like old school board - game battleships and then burst during cooking, making juicy seeded pockets in the filling.

The kitchen has the flourishes of a fine - dining establishment but that doesn't mean it can't borrow a little old - school sass from a black felt changeable letter board similar to the ones at every high school's cafeteria.

AW's nature and his philosophy totally compliments the boards ambition and until the old school wood panelled board room mentality changes the club wont ever win anything of note and we wont see the players at the club that we should.

Henry is Arsene's natural successor and until he is ready, we are screwed by le prof's old school antics, even if the stadium were empty, you know how defiant Wenger is, he won't care, the board won't care either because they know the protest wont last for long, we love our club too much for that and they know it, they've known that for more than a decade.

I wanted to homeschool my boys this year, but my oldest wanted to go to public school again and my DH wasn't on board.

Parents were coming in after school and taking pictures of the homework assignment board because it wasn't even possible for a 9 year old to write down all of the information.

LONG GROVE — The Long Grove Village Board has given the Plan Commission six weeks to review a controversial petition for a country inn, restaurant and cultural center on Old McHenry Road across from Kildeer School.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

Check the «garage sale» section on Craigslist and online neighborhood message boards like Nextdoor along with old - school tacked - up notices and flyers.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Old Sturbridge Academy, the new public charter school opening in August of 2017.

OAK LAWN — Oak Lawn «s Village Board and park district completed a land swap Tuesday night that saves Cook School, the oldest building in Oak Lawn, from demolition.

Two weeks ago, the Montclair Board of Education agreed to pay Ryne's family $ 2.8 million to settle a 2009 negligence lawsuit alleging the school's decision to let their son back on the field led to the 16 - year - old's death.

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

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.

Because school board members believe older children need more recreational activitiesthan those in the playground, they have agreed to spend up to $ 15,000 to install basketball backboards, volleyball courts and facilities for other group sports.

Dads of today are most likely not going to jump on board the Ashley train unless they're super old school.

Tom Majewski, a Park Ridge resident, told board members he was interested in creating an aquatic program for area teens and hoped to get the park district's help in renovating the pool at the old Maine North High School, at 9511 Harrison St. in unincorporated Maine Township.

With a library that boasts more than 1,000 board games, a trip to Tabletop Board Game Cafe has everything you need to unplug for hours upon hours of old - schoolboard games, a trip to Tabletop Board Game Cafe has everything you need to unplug for hours upon hours of old - schoolBoard Game Cafe has everything you need to unplug for hours upon hours of old - school fun.

Jona Augustyn, an 18 - year - old senior at Buffalo Grove High School, is trying to get a seat on the Arlington Heights Park District board (Handout)

It's back to the bad old days of late uncertainty and delay, and as Tim Kremer of the School Boards Association and Bob Lowry of the Council of School Superintendents told us on CapTon last night, this is the first late budget under the 2 percent tax cap.

This knee - jerk whining was Albany old - think at its worst - and sent a wrong message to school boards and superintendents across the state.

Failure to act would mean the city legally reverts to the old Board of Education and community school boards, which presided over the deterioration of public education in the five boroughs.

Still, as late as January 2014 when the mayor traveled again to Albany, this time to testify before the legislative state budget hearings, he and Cuomo were still talking about one another as old buddies who might have played lacrosse together at some posh Connecticut boarding school.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

Clothing, toiletries, and school supplies can be dropped off at the offices of City Councilmember Mark Levine at 500 West 141st Street, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer at 431 West 125th Street, Community Board 9 at 16 - 18 Old Broadway and 3333 Broadway.

Terry's career as a successful political operative dates back to 1972, when he served as the campaign manager for an 18 - year - old classmate, Thomas DiNapoli, who was running for the Mineola School Board.

If it's not the old school board system and it's not mayoral control, is there some third way that no one's discussed?

Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.

They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.

Kremer, with the school boards, says without an agreed upon means for distributing school aid, it goes back to the old days of back room deals.

But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.

Cuomo says by not voting to extend the Bill de Blasio's authority over the public schools, they essentially voted for a return to the dysfunction of the old system of multiple community school boards.

A former Plainview - Old Bethpage school board member, Cepeda, 56, says he would focus his legislative attention on revamping the assessment system, ensuring mixed - use development at the Nassau Hub and developing a stable and consistent budget line for public transit.

Charter school advocates may gain power if a law giving the mayor control over the schools expires and the old Board of Education structure returns.

Buffalo's Joint Schools Construction Board is involved in an escalating fight over how much profit LP Ciminelli made in managing the 11 - year old project.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

Austin Harig, the 18 - year - old high school student who made an unsuccessful bid for the Buffalo Board of Education against Carl Paladino this year, was arrested by police this week and accused of providing minors with alcohol.