Sentences with phrase «only went to high school»

Some only went to high school while others attended two - or four - year institutions.

Once again, I really found it interesting that Pejman only went to high school and not college.

I am a widow of 8 years and I think I am ready to meet someone for dating to see how we get along I am a Florida native, Caucasian I don't smoke or drink and would like the same I only went to high school I don't have a car and I don't want children or anyone who is under 72 years young.

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Bill Gates went to one of the only high schools in the United States that had a computer.

In Germany, 97 percent of students graduate from high school, but only a third of these students go on to college.

And so I find myself jogging next to a girl I went to high school with, spinning alongside the grocery store clerk, doing pilates with my neighbors, and sharing the weight room with the intimidating fit people who I can only assume actually live at the Y.

«I'd only been to two high school games,» Tracy says, «and I went to one of them because I wanted to see a boy I had a crush on.»

I remember that 91 team well i had just graduated high school that year.In the 90 season i saw they changed to black uniforms i was like that's my team.I was like i got to have one of those black jerseys and i went to the mall right after xmas in 90 and what do i find a number 21 black jersey sitting on the clearence rack with a host of other teams jerseys that was the only Falcons one left.So i bought it and wore that at school the next week and i told people this is my team win lose or draw.That 91 team was exciting to watch and that's how it all started for me being a fan of this team.

End Danny Stubbs was supposedly only a pass rusher; at 26, tackle Pierce Holt was said to be too old — he was 22 by the time he went to college, at Angelo State, after having had a variety of jobs after high school — and linebacker Bill Romanowski was supposed to have an attitude problem.

«Towards the end (of the regular season), we said play for the seniors, play for each other, because this is going to be the only 2017 Archbishop Mitty High School softball team ever,» Lucas said.

If he had picked Temple, he would have been able to stay in Philadelphia and have his family come to games, but Asya and Larry (as Lazar is now known) aren't exactly hoop fanatics — Asya went to only a handful of Max's high school games, his father went to none.

Mike next went to John Burroughs Junior High School in Los Angeles, where he was the only Methodist in an overwhelmingly Jewish student body.

Take the following statistics for example from the NCAA: Only 5.6 percent of all high school baseball players and 2.9 percent of all high school basketball players will go on to play collegiately.

Plus you only need to do one year of p.e. during four years of high school, then when schools out i can just go to a fast food place and pig - out...

He didn't fit into the only accepted box that so many others seemed to see, of achieving highly in high school, and then going on to an Ivy league four - year university.

«The reason we saved Wadleigh's middle school is because the entire community worked together in unity to make sure that everyone knew, from the mayor to the Chancellor to the DOE, that we were going to stand and fight,» said State Senator Brian Benjamin, who had engaged in meetings with the DOE and helped organize a protest to prevent the school from becoming only a high school.

«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.

«If you introduce entrepreneurship education to people at the primary, junior high or senior high school level, they grow up with that mentality that they do not only go to school to look at government for...

You go to Shama Senior High School and the only hope for you after completion is go and pull the fishing net for something to eat.

The other part of the data also indicated that out of those 100 high school freshmen, only one would go on to college.

The Congress is an honors - only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields.

For not only would it raise aspirations of pupils in all schools, but it would ensure that more privately - educated high achievers went to a wider spread of universities, raising the bar across higher education generally.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

My only experience with this color was when Mom bought me a yellow angora scarf and matching gloves to go with the Homemade Coat she made me, black and white plaid, in high school.

Once you've graduated from high school — and prom has come and gone — weddings are the only occasion for which dressing up to the nines (and getting photographic proof of it) are not only allowed but also encouraged.

We discovered we went to the same high school only two years apart, went to the same university and live only a few blocks away from each other.

Biography: Born in Korea and raised in San Jose, California, Linda Park began performing in theatre productions in high school and went on to study acting at Boston University where she received a B.F.A. Only one year after graduation, she joined the cast of Enterprise as Ensign Hoshi Sato.

Getting short - shrift in all of this is Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas, The Rules of Attraction), who is pushed mostly to the side here — although that may be intended irony, since his character was the most sexually experienced in the original film, making him the guy most likely to have had his glory day in high school, only to go downhill from there.

«Remember the Titans» (2001) Based on the true story of Virginia's first integrated high school football team (led by coach Denzel Washington), the Titans not only change the views of an entire town, but they go undefeated on their way to a thrilling state championship against an all - white team.

In one key scene between the two, Milo talks about how their father (who not - coincidentally ended his own life by jumping off a bridge many years ago) once told him when he was a boy that the kids who were popular in high school were only going to see their lives go downhill from there while Milo would flourish once he was able to step out into the real world — the heartbreak comes when Milo, holding back tears, states that he was the one it never got better for.

She's still seeing her high school sweetheart (Zahn, Bandidas), the captain of the football team — though the catch that he's married to someone else and only uses her for the occasional booty call might suggest how hard it is for her to let go.

After going undercover at their old high school to bust up a drug ring, Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) have been assigned more grown - up police work, only to end up humiliating themselves and the department in the process.

After creating a film club in high school as an excuse to go watch movies every weekend with her friends, she immediately realized talking about films was the only thing she was good at.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Inspirational Bio-Pic Chronicles LeBron James» Formative Years Most people only know LeBron James as a basketball phenom who went straight from high school to the NBA, where this year he was named the youngest MVP in the history of the league.

Eventually, a job goes wrong and he runs afoul of the cops, including Bradley Cooper's hero cop, who must struggle against the corruption of his unit at the hands of Ray Liotta in the second act, only to jump ahead a generation to follow Cooper's son and a friend at high school, played by Emory Cohen and Dane DeHaan, respectively.

Related Reviews: High School Musical: Remix - 2 - Disc Special Edition DVD • High School Musical: Soundtrack CD High School Musical 2 (Extended Edition) • High School Musical 2 (Deluxe Dance Edition) • High School Musical 3: Senior Year High School Musical: The Concert • High School Musical DVD Game High School Musical: 2 - Disc Special Edition Soundtrack • Disney's Karaoke Series: High School Musical CD From Director Kenny Ortega: Newsies • Hocus Pocus • The Cheetah Girls 2 Starring Ashley Tisdale and Featuring Zac Efron: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: Taking Over the Tipton Disney Channel and Other TV Productions: Once Upon a Mattress • Little House on the Prairie • Halloweentown & Halloweentown II: Double Feature Cadet Kelly • Return to Halloweentown • The Muppets» Wizard of Oz • Angels in the Endzone Disney Goes to High School: Sky High • The Princess Diaries (Special Edition) • Ice Princess • Remember the Titans (Director's Cut) Boy Meets World: The Complete Third Season • Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen • Halloweentown High Sweet Valley High: The Complete First Season • Popular: The Complete Second Season Other Musicals from Disney and Its Various Branches: Pete's Dragon • The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band The Happiest Millionaire (Roadshow Edition) • Mary Poppins (45th Anniversary Edition) • Bride & Prejudice

Within even my rudimentary plot description there's a touch of Cronenberg-esque body horror, the promise of demonic possession leading to messy body devouring, the ironical twist of the hot girl taking advantage of horny high school boys, and the always reliable «only the best friend realizes what's going on and is in a position to save the day» path to the final showdown.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

These children are the keys to a secure and sustainable future, and their education matters for us all,» said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and adds «Only one in two refugee children go to primary school, and one in four to secondary.

«My mom used [our undocumented status] as a way to get me to excel in school because she knew the only way I could go to college was to get into an elite school that would give me a full scholarship,» says Diaz, co-director of Act on a Dream, who was at the top of her high school class until her senior year, when her dad lost his job and she began working at Burger King 35 hours a week to support her family.

«Two of our science teachers, Robert Clingan and Paul DeChant, have created a project that not only keeps the students engaged but has them offering to return and help after they have been gone a year or two,» says Tim Onsager, assistant principal of West Bend (Wisconsin) West High School.

Another study found more than three - quarters of students who took Algebra I and Geometry went on to college within two years of high school graduation, while only one - third of students who did not take Algebra I and Geometry courses did so.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

Tiana is not only the first in her family to go to college, but also the first in her family to graduate from high school.

It is hardly surprising that only a minority of rural children gets into secondary school, and only a small part of that group goes on to higher education.

Its members noted that only 4 percent of the state's high - school seniors failed to pass the exam when the new com - petency program went into effect...

When she matriculated at Yale University a decade ago, she was the first person from her county to go to an Ivy League university; indeed, only 20 percent of her high school class went on to college at all.

These small numbers continued through World War I, when only about 5 percent of American children went to high school and eighth grade was the culmination, says education historian and former dean Patricia Albjerg Graham.

We need to be teaching that early, and Go is the first and only language that I know of with a take concurrency that I feel like I could teach to a middle or high - schooler.

The only point at which all Finnish students take standardized exams is as high school seniors if they wish to go to university.