Sentences with phrase «parents about gangs»
Last week the Wentworth Junior High School PTA began a program to educate parents about gangs.
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I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..
«I would rather take criticism about that than have parents come to me in Catford, in Lewisham, when their children's lives have been utterly devastated by gangs and knife crime,» Ms Alexander added.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
The story is about a gang of psychopaths who kidnap and brutalize a couple of teenagers, before unwittingly staying overnight at the same house as one of the victim's parents.
Comics Archie Comics Co-CEO Jon Goldwater and writer and artist Dan Parent talk about the latest story arc, which takes the Riverdale gang to India for an encounter with Bollywood.
But, in being unnecessarily apologetic about Sarah's feeling of being ganged up on, they are missing the opportunity to teach her about how two - parent families work.
When I heard that the parents basically agreed with her — expressing regret about having to gang up on her, and understanding that this must be difficult for her — I was befuddled.
What is new is that Sarah openly complains about being «ganged up on» by her parents, and the parents feel a touch of guilt for outnumbering her and outmaneuvering her.