Sentences with phrase «playing fields schools»

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«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

Several MBA admissions consultants recently gained access to Wharton's updated interview questions, a stark reminder that the business schools admissions process is not a level playing field.

By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

It is central to this proposal, however, to stress that when a school makes such a decision to be «open,» «interconfessional,» or whatever, it should not delude itself into claiming that it merely provides a «theologically neutral arena» and «level playing field» for free theological inquiry and exchange of opinion.

Paisley told Premier: «The remaining three Quarrymen are going to re-enact the anniversary of 60 years ago, they're going to be playing at the garden fete, and it's going to be a typical English garden fete at the school field.»

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

One day I was standing on the sports field of a school for the deaf and I watched the kids at play.

when i lived with my grandparents school let out before they got off work i went to an after school center where i received tutoring for my homework or i played with other kids in similar situations on occasion this place would take us on field trips one such field trip was to the local roller skating rink i was not a klutzy child, not more than the usual actually, i was quite coordinated at sports but put round wheels on my shoes and it was a mess i fell on my ass more times than i was standing and no lie the next day i could not poop

Growing up we would often eat frozen popsicles as we walked around our neighborhood or on our way to the local high school football / baseball field to play.

Promising a high school senior playing time in 2020 at the most important position on the field suggests that our QB situation is in pretty bad shape.

The field where the 2015 Frederick Douglass High School Mighty Ducks football team plays has a scoreboard, but no lights, and a lined turf, but no trainers or Gatorade jugs filled with water on the sideline.

But for us, the field, is just here in the school, we go and play any time we feel like.»

The bands from the two schools joined on the field and played God Bless America.

On the football field, Van Dyke has conducted himself well despite waiting to play organized football until his freshman year of high school.

a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

And on a Friday night in a South Carolina town, his encounter with a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

He was awed by the perfect grass, the bleached uniforms, the watered infield dirt, the men who traveled the country playing the game he and David played on the bumpy field behind the elementary school on Medford Avenue in Patchogue.

But last week they also knew that if they hadn't blown a 10 - point lead with four minutes to play against Kokomo High in January, they and not New Castle High, whose 9,325 - seat field house is the largest high school gym in the world, would have been unbeaten and ranked No. 1 in the state.

Football attendance at the school's rustic, 7,500 - seat playing field has jumped from an average of 5,000 a game to almost 10,000, and the squeeze is not just in the seats.

«Well, the majority of schools are trying to use the width of the field and the pace of the game as an equalizer, almost like in basketball, when a team used to slow it down when they played good teams.

Parlay that will at least one instance of Jeff insulting a head coach for a play call, a head coach who just so happens to be one of the most respected men in his field and even played high school football.

Smaller schools are also more likely to play on grass fields, and if it rains much, often teams are prohibited from playing or practicing because of the damage to the turf.

Until a 2,700 - seat field house was opened in the fall of 1977, Central Florida was forced to play in local high school gymnasiums or at places such as McCoy Air Force Base, 17 miles away.

That chambers recked my head far to many mistakes today and to be fair he wasn't at fault for all the goals because the goals came from the runners running into the box you have to have people picking these runners When I am on the pitch playing I get annoyed because defenders are very close to me so i seat back and wait for that moment to run into the space with a goal no one would even see me but that is on the local field and not on professional level come on seriously I can except cotinou free kick but elanas goal and cotinou second even mane the way he ran in for goal as if he was a hot knife cutting through butter unacceptable these mistakes are school errors 3 errors on the same match to much to digest

It will be interesting to see how all this plays out, as the CIF and sections» pursuit of gate receipts is going to collide with many schools» lack of access to consistent fields — but my guess is high school players should get used to playing in the cold and dark because, oddly enough, that's where the money is.

She also tried basketball, soccer, and track and field before first playing volleyball in sixth grade at Valley Christian's middle school.

It helps now that Peak has her on a less rigid training program that allows her to play field hockey at school and requires only one - a-day workouts for part of the year.

The award recognizes the school in the Big East with the best performances by their student athletes in academics and citizenship in addition to success on the various fields of play.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

Sean Sterner did things on the field of play that no high school soccer player before him ever did, defying even the laws of physics themselves.

The negative impact on team performance is particularly acute in those high school sports in which first year students are more likely to be on the playing field alongside seniors.

Add to that some free reading each night, outdoor time for physical activity, helping around the house, nature walks, field trips and play dates and you'll have a wonderful school year together.

-- Arthur Auer Anything but Children's Play: What Play in School Means for Learning — Irene Jung Higgs Field and a View of the Material World that Makes Sense — Michael D'Aleo

It seems like diabetes prevention is becoming a luxury for those that can afford it and school meals are an important tool to help level the playing field when it comes to health disparities and chronic disease.

Or, head to the local high school track and have your kids play soccer or catch on the field while you run laps.

Ron Crawford, a member and past chairman of the Park District Soccer Advisory Committee, said the district's 220 soccer teams play 125 games each week on school land because the Park District doesn't have enough fields for the program.

We have ample gardens which the children tend to, spacious playing fields, an outdoor amphitheater, designated science space for the middle school grades and much more.

Casey Legler Hinds I applaud the hard work that has gone into the improvements to school meals and they have helped level the playing field when the deck is stacked against teaching kids to learn to love foods that love them back.

But so do other area schools, including Lincoln Park High School, which has been stuck practicing and playing at a bumpy and potholed soccer field in Oz Park.

The school and community center could share parking lots and playing fields.

District 122 Supt. Thomas Mullins said the site would contain two school buildings, one for Grades 1 through 3 and the other for Grades 4 through 6, along with parking spaces and playing fields.

The park district also will have access to several classrooms and the gymnasium at the new school during off - school hours, and the district will build playing fields on neighboring Ron Beese Park.

In the district «s tentative plans, what is now a wheat field with patches of 100 - year - old oaks would include a museum for the Grayslake Historical Society and playing fields easily accessible from the junior and senior high schools.

All the games now are played on school fields.

The group will begin by seeking corporate donations and support from Chicago soccer organizations and the Naperville Park District to build a playing field with lights and two practice fields next to the adjacent Crone Middle School.

Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers on report card disappointments, mastermind children's friendships, and interfere on the playing field.

The disparities in resources that different schools have is a significant problem — we need to do a lot in policy to level that playing field, to give schools in poor communities more resources.

The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under - served high schools and students.

They make it clear that unless the preparation provided to teachers and the consultations we provide to parents are grounded in some form of definitional consensus, our field will undermine its ability to play a greater role at the table of school reform and policy development.