Sentences with phrase «only girl in school»

Mind Games by Susan Kaye Quinn, author of Open Minds: Raf wants to take Kira — the only girl in school who doesn't read minds — to the mindware Games, but his friends have other plans.

Raf, a regular mindreader, is in love with Kira, the only girl in school who can't read minds.

Not exact matches

Her only trip out of Jacksonville until that point was to Savannah, Ga., on a girls trip in high school.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

This season, Florida is the first and only state in the U.S. to require girls lacrosse teams to wear protective headgear, thanks to a new requirement by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

Exhibit D: The only reason a nerd would want to do well in gym is to impress the girls in their class, and since in high school, the least - cool thing you can do is care about anything, the Newsboys» gym - class effort did not lead to impressing said girls.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

P.S. during the h.s. season there are no women only teams, USA WRESTLING is after the high school season, where she may be able to wrestle only girls - HERES A SHOCKER gary, they even have freestyle wrestling for women at the Olympics, which i could drop in for a match with them.

I wondered when we would know better how to help children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only about tanks and bullets but about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them, into hating in place of loving, into killing instead of creation.

The girls were only allowed out one night a week, and on the Sabbath girls and boys alike were «urged» to attend both Sunday school and church and then, for good measure, to observe a «quiet hour» from two to three in the afternoon.

When Parker dunked in a game in December 2001 as a 15 - year - old Naperville Central High sophomore, becoming the first girl in Illinois and only the second in the nation to do so in a high school game, TV cameras and news reporters gathered in her driveway the next morning.

Young girls / women now outstrip boys / men not only in school graduation participation and results, but also in further education / training.

I did (I fooled arounnd with a number of girls in high school, but I only had intercourse with two serious girlfriends with whom I was seriously involved at the time), and so did other friends of mine.

In an April 2013 referendum, votes approved $ 13.2 million to buy the 11.35 - acre Youth Campus, which had been a residential school for troubled teens (most recently girls - only).

For example, in Willis Independent School District in Texas, school organizations such as parent - teacher groups and booster clubs, as well as local community groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts, are exempt from rental fees and pay only for supervision, security, and cleanup costs, while all other groups must pay $ 50 an hour to rent a school kitcSchool District in Texas, school organizations such as parent - teacher groups and booster clubs, as well as local community groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts, are exempt from rental fees and pay only for supervision, security, and cleanup costs, while all other groups must pay $ 50 an hour to rent a school kitcschool organizations such as parent - teacher groups and booster clubs, as well as local community groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts, are exempt from rental fees and pay only for supervision, security, and cleanup costs, while all other groups must pay $ 50 an hour to rent a school kitcschool kitchen.22

Isla is likely to be the most popular girl in school, not only because she is the most beautiful (which never hurts!)

A landmark study on calcium and vitamin D nutrition recently published by the Institute of Medicine poses a serious challenge to a dairy industry campaign to sell chocolate milk to the nation's school children, finding that only girls aged 9 to 18 might need more calcium and only by an amount contained in a half - serving of calcium - fortified cereal.

Recognizing the significant difference that this could make in and to our nation, Ghana has launched a campaign, under the auspices of UNICEF, to end child marriage in our nation by focusing not only on getting young girls in school but also on keeping them there their education is complete.

Not only do we need to get more girls into school; we also need to ensure that they can stay in school and receive quality secondary education,» he said.

He said that Girls Prep was one of the only schools in the Bronx that received an «A» on the Department of Education's report card, and said his daughter's only other option in the neighborhood would «pretty much be a failing school.»

De Blasio's school discipline announcement follows not only the news of lower suspension rates in city schools, but also national outrage following a video of a teenage girl getting tackled and arrested in her classroom in South Carolina.

A former presidential candidate of the People's National Convention (PNC) and Gynecologist, Edward Nasigiri has said government's plan to distribute free sanitary pads to girls in Senior High Schools (SHS) will only lead to corruption.

Sasha Giedd would have been the only girl in high school with a time - lapse movie of her developing brain, until the IRB caught wind of it

Through music school, I met parents with high school and college education, and in this way I learned about the only city - wide public high school of high academic standing available at that time to girls.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

Not really with him, because she's far to competitive and let's face it she not only kicks most girls butts, but most guys too, LOL Anyhow, her husband who had never done anything except swim in High school.

I speak from experience the time I showed up as Andy to the girl's school fall festival and was one of the only parents in full costume.

I was probably the only girl in high school who was more than content with the dress code (with slight rule breakers of course) and despite my interest in fashion and the constant need to be the first one to try something new as a blogger or always do something different, I've always felt more comfortable when I'm wearing my wardrobe staples.

That was the fun element — it was the only form of personalisation available, the only type of fashion when you're sitting in an all - girls boarding school,» she said.

I am bicurios and have only messed around with girls a little in High School!

Meet beautiful girls student in high school and near college looking for men only sexual relationships.

Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

The best way to describe it might be a mashup of The Secret World of Arrietty and Castle in the Sky, but this is still has its own unique story about a girl who discovers a broomstick and goes to a witches school only to learn that the animals are being kept in cages.

Their first film tells the story of a girl who discovers a broomstick and goes to a witches school only to learn that the animals are being kept in cages.

It tells the story of a girl who discovers a broomstick and goes to a witches school only to learn that some animals are being kept in cages.

Not only is Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams) the most popular girl in school — she is also the meanest.

Though it's a small - scale coming - of - age tale about a girl in high school, Lady Bird has been enough of a critical and commercial success to stay in the Oscar race, and these Globe wins will only help.

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

Barbara's only friend is Sophia (Sydney Wade), the new girl in school, who indulges Barbara's bizarre fixations as a friend would, but when they become too strange — gathering dead animals, for instance — she pulls back.

As she enters high school at the age of 15, Hit - Girl finds that despite her warrior skills and physical strength growing gloriously in training with every passing day, she is under pressure to abandon everything and be a normal, simpering teenager interested only in clothes and boys.

The green - band trailer highlights how Kick - Ass and Hit - Girl are getting back in the superhero scene with only a few tastes of what high school life is like for them.

Reaching cult classic status, I only stumbled upon this film fairly recently; and though it was released back in 1995, it may still be the most relevant and resounding film to tackle the experience of middle school and family life for an unpopular suburban pre-teen girl.

Only the dress is my old prom dress, the carpet will be rented, and I'll be spending the evening at St. Francis High School, the real - life inspiration for the all - girls Catholic academy in Lady Bird.

Since Director William Oldroyd's reputation is on the line with his first full - length movie, he is fortunate in starring Florence Pugh as title character, a woman whose prior film experience has been only in «The Falling,» wherein she played a charismatic pupil in a 1969 English girls» school faced with a mysterious fainting epidemic.

After a night of heavy drinking, she finds Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), Nadine's best friend since the two girls were in grade school and the only friend she has ever known, in bed with Darian (Blake Jenner), Nadine's older brother.

Walter works quietly at a lumberyard and tries to move on from his past, but neither his creepily disingenuous brother - in - law Carlos (Benjamin Bratt) nor the local police sergeant Lucas (Mos Def) believes that he can change, and Walter himself is all too aware how much time he spends watching the school playground opposite his apartment or shadowing a young girl (Hannah Pilkes) whom he spots on his bus route — and he still has only a shaky notion that what he did was wrong or harmful.

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That the cast is played by actual teenagers (centered on the dramatically challenged Justice) and some barely in their twenties instead of older actors who only pass as teens to those years removed from high school underscores the film's target and its limited appeal for adult audiences, who can easily enjoy films like Mean Girls and Superbad.

Though popular in school, and as Lena tells him, «dripping with charm», he too harbors a loneliness and isolation that only begins to evaporate when he finally meets this complicated young girl.