Sentences with phrase «other kids in the neighborhood»

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Get other kids in the neighborhood or from your child's school involved.

I was one of those kids back in the 70's running around until dusk with the other kids in the neighborhood.

But when every other kid in the neighborhood can recite lines from the newest show, ours are going to want in.

«He had brothers to fight with, and he would fight with the other kids in the neighborhood.»

But as Paul Tough writes in his book, Whatever It Takes, about Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, Canada had something growing up that a lot of other kids in the neighborhood didn't: a mother with a couple years of college under her belt who realized that education doesn't only happen in school.

Other kids in the neighborhood agreed that they see cats everywhere.

Not exact matches

Cruz — at 5 - foot - 7 and 120 pounds — was scrawny, and rarely, if ever, felt comfortable with other kids, either in his Parkland neighborhood or at Stoneman Douglas, according to Paul Gold, who lived next door to the Cruz family and remained in touch with Nikolas up until his mother's funeral in November.

Gold recalled seeing Cruz as a kid attempt to join other kids riding their bicycles in the neighborhood, but the kids brushed him off and called him names.

We live in a great neighborhood but unfortunately there are only 5 - 6 house with kids and there are no other neighborhoods within close walking...

I can hear the chickens cooing at each other in the back and my youngest laughing with the neighborhood kids down the street.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

It upset her to think that these perfectly good toys were being thrown away when at the same time there were so many kids in the same and other neighborhoods who couldn't afford to have toys.

At the end of the day and once they finish their homework, have your kids had any time to themselves to just play with friends in the neighborhood or do other things they want?

I've heard of several other kids who stopped nursing down of their own accord somewhere in the 10 -12-month neighborhood, but I'm wondering if this is common.

Other ideas are going for a winter walk to check out Christmas lights in your neighborhood, ice skating, building snowmen in your backyard, or doing a quick exercise video when the kids are napping.

Get in touch with other parents in the neighborhood who will be schlepping their kids to the same places as you will.

As Gurnee resident Julie Hermsen sizzled last week, she harked back to her youth in Lincolnshire, where she could always cool off at the local swim club with the other neighborhood kids.

If you don't live in a diverse neighborhood and your child doesn't go to a school with kids of other races, surround her with children's books and artwork featuring people of different races.

All kids grow at different paces, so you can't determine whether your child will be short or tall just from comparing her to other kids at school or in the neighborhood.

Like so many other kids in their working - class neighborhood not far from Long Beach's massive port, Jose had severe asthma, and it took doctors years to hit on a regimen that controlled his symptoms.

For the last four years, he has been venting his anger and frustration on the heavy bag at John's Boxing Gym, in the Bronx, N.Y., rather than on other neighborhood kids.

It's not just that, many people hate running in the cold or the heat while others have no other option to work out, especially if they have to be at home with kids or don't live in a safe neighborhood for walking or running.

and I turn the lights off for Trick O» Treaters (there aren't many little kids in my neighborhood, and most of them go to other neighborhoods on less busy streets... so all we get are older kids who don't even wear costumes... which is really just going door - to - door begging for food... which is awkward).

But the movie implies Connolly is acting out something other than a repressed crush: It's the need of a bullied child in a tough neighborhood who looks to the biggest, meanest kid to protect and define him.

Poor kid, and poor everyone else — Griffin mildly chides Phoenix for lashing out at a woman scolding a child, telling her that taking it out on others isn't going to help, and then he vandalizes every car in the neighborhood.

In other words, if a kid's disability can be dealt with in the neighborhood school, then the kid doesn't have to be sent across town or even to another town's special schooIn other words, if a kid's disability can be dealt with in the neighborhood school, then the kid doesn't have to be sent across town or even to another town's special schooin the neighborhood school, then the kid doesn't have to be sent across town or even to another town's special school.

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»

«Interest groups do all they can to keep new schools from opening up in neighborhoods where there are other schools existing — not because of what's best for kids, but because of what they perceive is best for adults.»

«We don't have kids that grew up with each other since kindergarten in the same neighborhoods,» said Principal Brenda Chun.

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There is no other system in the world where all kids have the same school experience in their own neighborhood.

It would disappoint but not surprise me if LAUSD schools in the same neighborhood — who serve the kids — would keep disruptive students in school (with all the damage they can cause) just to keep their suspension statistics looking good for writers and others like this.

Other respondents referred to their credit reports or scores as «the most important thing in my life, right now, well besides my babies,» as «that darned thing that is destroying my life,» and as «my ticket to good neighborhoods and good schools for my kids.»

roaringmad you are a fuking idiot when it comes to the breed apparently you have read too many bad articles my son has two pitbulls and a 3 yr» old as well as a 7 yr» old theses dogs are great with kids even in the neighborhood with other kids like any breed they can be bad or good it's all in how they are raised..

Dogs left in yards alone are open for teasing by neighborhood kids, other dogs, and cats.

On the other hand, you may have to refill the bowl many times, especially if you have a number of greedy little kids in your neighborhood!

If you have children or plan to have in future, a neighborhood that is close to a good school and has other kids is a good option.

After a week of watching kids huff glue and have seizures in the street, Ania and I decided to move to El Pobaldo, a wealthy neighborhood on the other side of the city.

«There are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that's not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood,» Obama says.

Wilson has said that his art frequently leads him back to his own experiences growing up black in a multicultural family and a neighborhood with no other black kids.

Outreach workers seek out at - risk kids and help them develop connections with other children, positive adult role models in their neighborhoods, and with community stakeholders.

There's nothing better for kids than to have other children in the neighborhood.

Soothing water sounds ~ is there any better addition to a patio??? We are lucky enough to hear neighborhood kids laughing as they play on their trampoline and swing set, listen to the birds and hummingbirds flying around us, and the other neighborhood sounds you hear ~ a patio pond would be the absolute «topper», in my opinion!!