Sentences with phrase «only schools feeling»

Traditional public schools are not the only schools feeling the strain of competition.

Not exact matches

Not only does an airline with a monopoly on a route experience greater delays, but it will also pad its schedule to make customers feel like they arrived promptly even if they could have arrived sooner, according to a Kellogg School of Management study.

Finally, while parents at elite schools only have one vote, cutting their subsidy would feel like a direct attack, and really motivate them to work against the NDP, either through donating to the UCP or helping out with their campaign.

Only half support more teaching about Asia in Canadian schools, and less than one - third feel we should focus more on teaching Asian languages.

I began to look beyond the cursing, and hear the substance of their hearts: an ego hurt by a son failing in elementary school, finances were so low they felt threatened of losing their car, anger that they hoped to change the world but only worked in a taxi, and so forth.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

If one has for any reason invested one's life for a while in such a school, and especially if one has begun to feel a pinch between expectation and experience, it is important not only to reflect critically about the school but also to reflect critically about the wav in which the school is being described and analyzed.

One Day at a Time has indeed made magic in how it's brought a streaming generation back to a time that might even remind you of an after - school special but told in the most sincere way possible, made possible by only an entire cast that makes the characters feel... well, simply real.

Elizabeth felt the sting of the latter when she tried to set up a boarding school for boys, with the help of a kind Episcopalian pastor — who didn't hold her Catholicism against her — only to have parents angrily withdraw their sons, once they discovered Elizabeth was a Catholic.

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.

Nearly 52 percent of first - year students feel isolated on their campus, and Horner points out that many students only form relationships with other students, separating themselves from the people living outside their school.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

This feeling spread like a contagion through the high school, my students infected with the Friday afternoon jitters though it was only Monday.

My daughter is on a school outing, and was served a carb only breakfast - she felt terrible 2 hours later.

Both Teams only had 5 Guys and it had an old - school feel to the Game as a result.

In coming weeks this game will make me feel like the only spouse at a class reunion who didn't go to the school.

«Not only does the fence add the look and feel of a stadium, but it also reduces the risk of injury to our athletes,» says Chris Villiere, softball coach at South Lewis Central School District in Turin, New York.

I had always thought we would homeschool, but both years we took the time to visit schools (public and private and public «magnet» schools, etc.)... we found only one school that I could feel comfortable about.

As a general rule, children in any setting, whether they are at home, at a relative's house or at school, need to have a feeling of safety — not only in the sense of physical safety, but also that those who are caring for them have their best interests at heart.

I have had conversations with fellow moms and felt that my kids are not only in a different classroom, but that they are not even at the same school, because I have only a peripheral interest in their homework.

And, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates, all in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the food.

-LSB-...] In addition, almost all school food advocates felt that the bill was grossly underfunded, providing only a six - cent - per - meal increase that was unlikely to significantly improve the food on kids» lunch trays.

Because one aspect of TLT of which I'm most proud is that this blog has proven to be a forum where school food providers feel as comfortable voicing their views as anyone else, and I like to think this is because I feel (and have expressed here many times) only the greatest respect for what they do and the daunting challenges they face.

One person asks Jamie why he feels uniquely qualified to tell them what to do, and another expresses concern that he's only involved Los Angeles USD school food «for the ratings.»

She too starts school this year but as most of her friends have already started, even though they're only a few weeks older than her, she feels like she's missing out I think.

On my more optimistic days, I feel like we can get there — but only when so many young people are dropping like flies from obesity - related diseases that even the most fiscally conservative Congressperson will cough up more funding (and I'm not talking about a paltry 6 cents) to improve school food.

For them, the only school food they know is what they are seeing this year, and while it may look unfamiliar, at least they don't have the mindset of older students who feel that their rightful heap of chicken nuggets has been snatched away.

Often there is only one or two frustrations that lead to your child feeling that «school is hard.»

I know exactly how you must be feeling — we are only at the start of our preschool days with Arthur and although I have loved watching him develop and play with the children there (mixed ages so many are leaving for school) I also really enjoy the days where we can snuggle at home and choose what we get up to.

It's only day four of my son's new school year and I already feel a bit defeated by the whole lunchbox packing thing.

Sometimes when I feel like I'm the only one out there who cares about what kids are eating at school, I read the Lunch Tray or Better School Food and I realize I'm not alone aschool, I read the Lunch Tray or Better School Food and I realize I'm not alone aSchool Food and I realize I'm not alone at all.

I can't believe it is only a couple of weeks until Easter, it feels like we have only just gone back to school yet we break up for the Easter holidays a week on Friday!

Or maybe they feel like money is too tight and assume that the nearby public school is the only free or affordable option.

Sending your child to a school that not only isn't teaching them, but is causing them to regress academically, is a really terrible feeling.

If you have a child with the kindergarten jitters and could use a cute story to read that will help him / her deal not only with that first day of school but also with any other unfamiliar situation where he / she is feeling unsure and apprehensive, I highly recommend it!

The Kiblers» only other child, 13 - year - old Courtney, called her mother from school each afternoon to see how she was feeling.

A diary or blank - book journal: Having her very own journal, plus fresh pens and pencils, will not only make your grade - schooler feel very grown up, it'll also encourage writing, drawing, and reading.

I could only imagine how the mother felt knowing that the school has a Biting Policy and her son could get kicked out if it continued.

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.

Why She'll Love It: If your teen felt unable to further delve into her studies because she only had access to a microscope at school, this is the answer to her prayers.

How do others feel about serving chocolate milk in schools only an occasional basis, such as every Friday or only on the last day of school before a holiday?

I feel them when our eldest daughter, now twelve, draws her family portrait at school with me, her dad, her two sisters and brother and herself surrounded by five cupcake stickers; the stickers she only later tells me are her angel brothers and sisters.

The fact that only six in ten physicians in both groups felt confident in diagnosing concussion, and that only between 3 in 10 and 1 in 3 felt confident in concussion management, is a cause for concern, especially given the findings in a 2011 Children's Hospital Boston study4 that physicians are involved in the assessment of almost 60 % of concussions in U.S. high schools in schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff, and make half of the return to play decisions.

Only 6 % of BME teachers feel schools and colleges do enough to promote racial equality, a conference organised by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

Backers say he also feels a large part of his appeal is based on his hometown recognition as a former high school quarterback who took Great Neck to its only undefeated football season ever.

As a result more than a fifth (22 %) say they have been forced to claim job seekers allowance; nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have access to training and professional development opportunities; Nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have any access to a mentor or line manager to discuss their work; Nearly half (44 %) of supply teachers feel they are used to cover the lessons of more challenging pupils; only 31 % of supply teachers said they were always made to feel welcome when entering a new school; over a third (35 %) of supply teachers did not always have access to food and drink facilities in the schools where they worked.

September 1, 2010 If an RCSD teacher ever feels alone in his or her good work, he or she need only attend REF's Partnership Awards Dinner to understand the depth and breadth of the partnerships supporting city school students.

July 28, 2009 If an RCSD teacher ever feels alone in his or her good work, he or she need only attend REF's Partnership Awards Dinner to understand the depth and breadth of the partnerships supporting city school students.

«All you have to do now is not only feel sorry for the liars, but you have to go against them and pray to God that the lies can be crushed and the liars can be silenced so that real measures can be put into place to actually save children's lives,» Nugent said about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students.