Sentences with phrase «ordinary kid»

Once again, the issue is how to enable the ordinary schools to do for ordinary kids what the wealthy have always done for their kids.

Like «Hansel and Gretel,» this story has a set of siblings, three of whom respond to danger with courage, imagination and fidelity — ordinary kids who rise to the challenges of an extraordinary situation.

Whilst at times Burnham appeared to inspire the crowd with his aspirational narrative about his own background, and «ordinary kids without connections», it is hard to believe that his comments on Iraq won't draw the most attention.»

I know ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.

August «Auggie» Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) is an intelligent 10 - year - old boy born with a congenital disorder that caused facial disfigurement, having endured 27 surgeries that have allowed him to breathe, hear and have a face, but otherwise, he considers himself a pretty ordinary kid.

The other irony, as Tony Bryck and the co-authors of the now - classic 1992 study, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public schools.

Salaam Reads will publish books that include well - developed, complex characters; themes of identity negotiation and ordinary kid issues; and narratives that are poignant as well as funny — all of which are intended to affirm a wide range of experiences that are specifically Muslim as well as universally appealing.

She and all the members of the «Flock» — Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel — are just like ordinary kids — only they have wings and can fly.

Bowie and Keechie are two nice, ordinary kids who «ve fallen in with the crookedly paternal T - Dub (Jay C. Flippen) and his violent partner Chickamaw (Howard Da Silva) to form a gang of traveling thieves.

But these are no ordinary kids.

And so, we put the crèches away for another year, and forget that God descended in the form of an ordinary kid who, as Isaiah prophesied, «had no majestic bearing to catch our eye,» and whose parents would have passed our notice too.

«But I'm very, very struck that it's still much harder to get on in the world if you're an ordinary kid without connections.

I start out an ordinary kid in Belleville, Illinois, kicking mushrooms and growing up to play baritone horn in the high school marching band.

Tristyn Lee, a 15 year old from California, is defiantly everything but an ordinary kid.

Overall, Daria Dimitrova is just an ordinary kid but with a big dream.

According to research published in Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice in 2004, imagined ostracism is significant enough to induce psychological Sample Lesson — Responding to Text Character Analysis Lesson 1: Whole - Class / Direct Instruction not what an ordinary kid would get.

Some of these scenarios do indeed offer up a laugh or two — the incestuous option with Matt's adopted sister Krysta (Krysta Rodriguez) is probably the best The Virginity Hit serves up for our consumption (mostly thanks to Krysta; she is the most likable)-- most, however, are just opportunities for the guys to seemingly adlib and act out gross - outs that no ordinary kid, no matter how clued - in (or clued - out for that matter), would utter or do.

They're ordinary kids, maybe smarter than most, but they have no plans, no ambitions.

But this is no ordinary kid flick.

They are ordinary kids, bruised in ordinary ways, growing up in an ordinary suburb.

The MacGuffin / kid who Cable is after (played by Julian Dennison) is no ordinary kid and appears to have mutant powers and a really bad attitude.

Other oddities: how Jackson sets up each segment in a very overdramatic way, how the other commenting celebrities appear in a moving parchment of sorts, how some of the questions are either no - brainers or a stretch in relating to the movie, how the ordinary kids are strangely posed and filmed, and how the whole thing is both bordered by oak and letterboxed.

A young boy born with a facial deformity is destined to fit in at a new school, and to make everyone understand he's just another ordinary kid, and that beauty isn't skin deep.

Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is an ordinary kid at an American high - school whose only super power is being invisible to long - time crush Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca).

However it was on this night that magic took the ideas in that box, and created Timothy, who is found by Cindy and Jim covered in dirt and in what was Timothy is no ordinary kid by any means.

Alton (played by Jaeden Lieberher, of Aloha and St. Vincent), is no ordinary kid.

Through narration, he informs us that he's «not an ordinary kid».

But this ordinary kid won't be ordinary long when he makes the decision that he's sick of bullies and crooks and people who take advantage of others while the community just looks the other way.

«I knew I'd never be an ordinary kid.»

Children with disabilities have always had difficulties in achieving high educational goals in comparison with ordinary kids.

But I know ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds.

The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face.