Sentences with phrase «posh schools»

Unfortunately, few of them have the pushy parents or attend the posh schools that try to be serious about «gifted» education.

also, can you not be left - wing if you're family had a bit of money or you went to a posh school?

«can you not be left - wing if you're family had a bit of money or you went to a posh school?

And to all those people who say: he wants children to have the kind of education he had at his posh school...

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To be fair, Moses isn't particularly posh because Palace recommended he attend the school in Croydon, and Moses seems to have concentrated more on football than his studies.

SEE ALSO: (Image) Wayne Rooney's son Kai goes to posh private school.

Eating at the poshest restaurants sending their kids to private schools Employing nannies and cleaning staff.

SEE ALSO: (Image) Wayne Rooney's Son Kai Goes To Posh Private School.

He tells us the school is «not posh, not highly resourced,» yet the kids are served beautiful, scratch - cooked meals using produce grown in the school's own garden.

In the auditorium of a posh high school in the north suburbs of Chicago, a packed house of well - heeled moms and dads recently braved blizzard conditions to hear the lanky, affable Tough describe some of the scientific experiments leading to his belief that it is not innate ability, IQ or affluence that determines a child's ability to succeed in school and beyond.

Nor do I think (pace Ian & Nina Graham) that useful structural instabilities of the sort I've tried to identify, that the chances for real debate are much diminished by the fact that Clegg and Cameron are both the products of Very Posh Public Schools.

Still, as late as January 2014 when the mayor traveled again to Albany, this time to testify before the legislative state budget hearings, he and Cuomo were still talking about one another as old buddies who might have played lacrosse together at some posh Connecticut boarding school.

«It's unacceptable for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to have gone to a posh independent school» says Alistair Darling (Loretto, # 25,500 pa)

And you certainly didn't see too many posh public school lawyers like Blair showing up Labour Party branch meetings in the 80s.

Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, has attracted attention because of his posh first name and questions about whether, having been privately educated, he would send his child to private school.

Neil said it was a super posh - o «elite» school, but it was an ordinary grammar, like mine in Lancaster.

It appears in suburban homes, federal buildings, posh conference centers, restaurants, even schools, gaining high marks.

However, we have models in the «posh» class really looking unmatched by mixing up mostly neutral and less vibrant colors with a startling hue, combining school, sport, casual and fun in one spectacular look.

These great staples are ideal for day, evening and night outs, posh street walks, high - schools and laid back weekends wear.

Runway Inspiration: Creatures of the Wind A plaid skirt (Lands» End, $ 45; landsend.com) can veer into schoolgirl territory, so it is best worn with a sleek black turtleneck (Theory, $ 95; theory.com) to make the look more posh, less private school.

I would go to work, school, dinner with friends, just very posh things that allowed me to wear sky high heels and clothes that without worrying about anything.

I went to a posh primary school where no one else's mother spoke with a foreign accent.

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Upon arriving in the Big Apple for their television debut, Celeste and Bam Bam find their moment in the spotlight threatened by a former high school nemesis turned posh salon owner assigned to perform makeover duties on the peculiar pair.

Synopsis: George (Freddie Highmore) is a senior at a posh Manhattan prep school, but his disaffected attitude leaves little room for toeing the line.

Portraying a character from age 25 to 45 was a significant challenge, Cumberbatch says — as was capturing the attitude and vocal mannerisms specific to Patrick's class: «I went to a very posh public school, second to Eton, yet I had only one friend from the landed gentry.

Divided into three sections, the story starts in 1978, in a posh boarding school in the English countryside where children are kept obedient, docile and more or less unaware of what's expected of them, or at least unwilling to rebel against their fate.

In a posh hotel not far from Central Park, a small group of lobbyists, administrators, and legislators gathered to consider an interesting question: Does anybody in the public schools ever hear the policy debates that rage back and forth at the state level?

Sheen accuses the Viewpoint School, a posh L.A. private school, of allowing his daughter to be bullied as well as calling her aSchool, a posh L.A. private school, of allowing his daughter to be bullied as well as calling her aschool, of allowing his daughter to be bullied as well as calling her a liar.

Outside the walls of this state - of - the - art, pre-K-12 international school, you find contrasts at every corner: urban slums near posh shopping malls, rickshaws sharing the roads with limousines.

Tucked among posh gated communities, and meticulously landscaped shopping centers, Olympia High School in Orlando offers more than two dozen Advanced Placement courses, even more afterschool clubs, and an array of sports from bowling to water polo.

There followed a long succession of special tutors, posh Washington, D.C., schools, and psychologists, one of whom told Stevens that he had homework phobia.

There followed a long succession of special tutors, posh Washington, D.C., schools, and psychologists, one of whom told...

Table 2 Charters with Lowest Administrative Costs Per pupil Charter Enrollment Administration / Pupil Flagstaff Montessori, LLC 257 $ 0 Premier Charter High School 3,217 $ 128 Ed Ahead, Inc. 82 $ 240 Noah Web Pima 281 $ 286 The Odyssey Preparatory Academy, Inc. 2,641 $ 319 Akimel O'Otham Pee Posh Charter School 181 $ 330 James Madison Preparatory School 184 $ 373 Educational Impact, Inc. 201 $ 393 EDUPRIZE SCHOOLS LLC 3,630 $ 417 Hillcrest Academy 106 $ 432 Montessori Education Centre — Charter School 462 $ 436 El Centro for the Study of Primary and Secondary Education, Inc. 63 $ 537 CAFA, Inc., dba Learning Foundation Performing Arts Alta Mesa 252 $ 538 Friendly House Inc. 397 $ 550 Self Development Charter School 461 $ 555 Carden of Tucson, Inc 129 $ 557 Global Renaissance Academy of Distinguished Education 93 $ 563 Satori, Inc. 169 $ 605 Ridgeline Academy 609 $ 633 Happy Valley School Inc. 464 $ 670 Empower College Prep 377 $ 680 CAFA, Inc. 214 $ 682 Heritage Academy, Inc. 650 $ 691 P.L.C. CHARTER SCHOOLS 1.134 $ 711 Benchmark School, Inc. 417 $ 736 Horizon Community Learning Center 799 $ 753 American Basic School 880 $ 758 Pioneer Preparatory School Challenge Foundation 628 $ 769 East Valley Academy 23 $ 776 Benjamin Franklin Charter School 2,850 $ 781

In my favorite story in the collection, «I Happy Am,» a black boy looks forward to a school field trip to a posh house in an upscale suburb, only to be disappointed that the owner is a black woman not much different than his own mother.

The story follows Kathryn Booker, the wife of the beloved headmaster of Mountbriers Academy, a posh private school.

He's not likable in the novel's first pages, when he's a scholarship student at a posh boys» school in Australia, and he remains unlikable at the end, when he's a 30 - something who doesn't know what to do with his life.

The agoraphobic and overwhelmed Bernadette up and disappears after a fundraiser at her daughter's posh private school, leaving the family scrambling to track her down in time for their planned vacation to Antarctica.

Hotels in Sathon are Bangkok hotels in a location of prime residential and commercial properties consisting of 5 star hotels, serviced apartments, embassies, posh apartments, schools, churches and private hospitals.

Once upon a time, Sally reigned supreme as the «chief bully» at her old school, Posh Prep.

The dancing continued at the official after party which was held at London's old school nightclub Mahiki, somewhat retro, as well as posh members club 5 Hertford Street and André Balazs» Chiltern Firehouse.

The 2014 British film The Falling, set in a posh boarding school, also built its drama around an epidemic of fainting, and The Fits, in its meditation on the power of female adolescence, even shares some kinship with the recent colonial chiller, The Witch.

I heard later that a Marlborough accent is posh and public school.

The posh Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois is home to a world - famous school system as well as the legacies of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and novelist Ernest Hemingway.

When your name sounds like Snozzlebert Mugglewump, or is an abbreviation of Archibald, and everything about your bearing and hair suggests, accurately, that you went to public school, it is easy to feel, as you say you do in a Radio Times interview, that there's a lot of «posh - bashing that goes on».

I know they breed better accents — Husband and I are quite facinated by the posh lilt to private school kids» conversation — but going by the wild gatherings of private school boys at my not - so - neighbourly neighbours house, pouring fruity lexia down their throats from the cask, it doesn't actually breed better taste or judgement.