Sentences with phrase «public school children do»

«Thirty to 40 percent of our public school children don't have an equal opportunity to learn for lots of reasons,» Tannebaum told Education World.

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Turning our provincial school systems into providers of universal free child care for well - to - do families is a perversion of good public policy.

Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

I wish I didn't have a child of public school age at the moment.

Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «Under God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.

Why should we force poor parents to send their children to public schools that the teachers themselves do not trust with their own children?

Evrything this man has done has damaged our national security and compromised our freedoms, from suing states who want to initiate simple voter safeguards to working to help the public «schools» usurp the role of child - rearing from parents.

it used to be we strived to do better, that is why we ended slavery, ended segrigation, created Social Security, built roads, public schools, ended child labor, created FEMA, the National Weather Service, FDA, FFA, the Military and all the other programs that give us safe schools, roads, public buildings, homes, food, water and products.

The parental state, extending the smothering accomplished by Johan's possessive parents, does to him what the parental corporation does to people we know, or the public schools to children, or the machinery of welfare to modern - day paupers.

For this reason it is important for a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimized.

The evangelical Alabama parents, unlike the fundamentalist Tennessee parents, have no desire to remove their children from the public schools; they wish consistently to have a cultureshaping role — not to keep themselves from the world, as fundamentalists do in many ways.

I don't care if you pick your nose and eat the boogers, I just don't want to see you doing it in public or trying to get congress to pass laws forcing my children in public schools to learn your disgusting habits.

Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.

Do you really want your young children looking at a dead guy hanging on a cross on a daily basis??? if you really want that, then do it in your own home not in our schools, offices, or public buildingDo you really want your young children looking at a dead guy hanging on a cross on a daily basis??? if you really want that, then do it in your own home not in our schools, offices, or public buildingdo it in your own home not in our schools, offices, or public buildings.

I do, however, believe religious views are constantly pushed on me, my children, my grandchildren and public school science programs.

Second, I do get a little upset when the gay movement pushes tolerance and acceptance of their lifestyle to my children in public schools.

Whether it be public school or homeschool, you strike me as the type of mom who will do what is in her heart that is best for her children.

So one of the things you can do is if your child is slated for public school, ask whether the school ability groups or not.

A family with a child who does not have an IEP but who might qualify for one should contact their local public school system about setting the IEP process in motion as soon as possible, since it takes time for the public school system to determine each student's eligibility.

I was a very overweight child and while we did have foods offered in a cafeteria in my high school, we never had any school offered food in my public elementary and middle schools here in the Bay Area.

In an interview, CPS parent Joy Mollet said she was appalled by the classroom breakfast program offered by her children's public preschool and does not want to see it at their grade school, Hawthorne Scholastic Academy.

He may not send his children to the public schools in LA, but after what I saw yesterday I don't blame him.

I have family and close friends who are teachers, and do not discount what they do to serve our nation's children in the public schools.

She responded to Burdette residents «complaints that they do n`t use the park district by pointing out that many people without children do not use public schools, but still must pay taxes for them.

I am a former public school teacher and I think children do learn best by engaging with their environment.

In fact, I chose to teach in a public high school precisely because I pitied the children who felt forced to be at school, who felt trapped like I did when I was their age.

WASHINGTON — Almost half (48 percent) of Ohio voters with children in K - 12 public schools think that students do not have enough time to eat lunch at school, according to a statewide survey released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Gifted children need a special environment, as does any special needs child, and it's important for parents to understand what to look for in a school, whether it's private or public.

other issues such as education and vaccination decisions had to be made, and, while at first the young couple followed the norm and the first two of their children started out in public school and fully vaccinated, it just didn't sit well with the parenting style they'd developed.

Chicago Public Schools won an extra $ 11 million from the state to expand preschool programs for disadvantaged children next school year, but the district doesn't plan to create new programs with the money.

But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

The survey found that 97 percent of voters and 96 percent of public school parents think serving nutritious foods in schools is important to «ensure that children are prepared to learn and do their best.»

State law requires that all public schools offer a free meal to eligible students even if the schools do not participate in the federal lunch program, said Mark Haller, who supervises child nutrition programs at the Illinois State Board of Education.

The majority of children attend public school and monitoring what they eat while at school can be hard to do.

There will be numerous people who believe that public schooling is the only option, especially for a child with special needs, and they will tell you that you are doing a disservice to your child.

«I give them tremendous credit, because of the incredible faith that they had that public schools would do well by their children,» said the new Schools Chanschools would do well by their children,» said the new Schools ChanSchools Chancellor.

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

«At the same time obesity is epidemic nationwide, and 40 percent of the city's public school children are either overweight or obese, so we are appropriately concerned in making sure that our work to solve one problem doesn't inadvertently exacerbate the other,» she said.

That move was criticized by the teachers unions, which does not take children out of the public schools, and holds their events after school hours and on weekends.

State leaders and advocacy groups have accused the board of making decisions that favor private school students at the expense of public school children, many of whom are low - income, have disabilities or are immigrants who don't speak English.

I am certain Andrew and Sandra are discreet — but now they are in the public eye and I don't know how I would explain to children in schools learning about new york current events that our governor isn't married to the woman who lives in the mansion.

I hope for sake of the 34,000 children in Buffalo public school that going forward people actually do more than pay lip service to improving our schools.

That group makes up the largest proportion of parents in public schools, and they want their children to have a different upbringing than they did.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

While I recognize that it is not the Board's nor the district's role or responsibility to take such things into consideration, I do believe that we have an obligation to utilize community resources whenever possible as that only serves to strengthen the community in which the children served by the Buffalo Public Schools live.

Additionally, I will advocate for a solution to fix the systemic problems associated with a district in which a majority of school - aged children do not attend public schools.

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

«But that doesn't not mean we aren't fully behind the 85 percent of children in New York state who go to public schools.»

We grade restaurants to ensure they comply with health and hygiene regulations to protect the public, we must do the same with our school cafeterias to ensure our children are protected.