Sentences with phrase «push against parents»

Pulling away from and pushing against parents, both normal parts of adolescent growth, are scary acts for the only child because this means putting good standing in parental eyes at risk, courting disapproval from the two most important people in the child's world.

Not exact matches

Then as now, desperate parents sought court relief against their son's being pushed into the grave sooner rather than later.

I watched as quarterback Kirk Farmer broke his leg after getting pushed out of bounds during Homecoming against Iowa State; I was on the hill on the north side of the stadium with my parents, so unlike most of the student section on the east side, I apparently missed witnessing him screaming, throwing up, and passing out.

We all know about the unofficial Mommy Olympics; the way we're all pushed to compete and parent against one another.

But it would be easier for parents to do their job if they didn't have to push back against the relentless tide of marketing aimed at their children.

Because at that age, kids are pushing back against their parents.

In an emotional essay published by the Fed is Best Foundation, a parent - led nonprofit founded to push back against the social pressure to exclusively breastfeed, Johnson writes that despite multiple consultations with lactation experts and nurses, no one caught on to the fact that her son was hungry, and that she wasn't producing enough breastmilk.

Stuebe in the past has pushed back against Fed Is Best's campaign for all parents to be warned about rare brain damage risks that can result from insufficient breast milk supply, writing that it could threaten the effort to normalize exclusive breastfeeding and unnecessarily expose newborns to supplemental formula feeding, which could jeopardize the establishment of a consistent breastfeeding routine.

We have to consciously push back against the culture of fear that has come to surround parenting if we are to raise truly successful adults.

State Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez of East Harlem promised to «push back against disenfranchisement» of parents and the community, saying that we know that «the best schools have parent engagement.»

In a dramatic about - face and as parents revolt against what they see as over-testing of their kids, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reportedly pushing for the role of test results in establishing teacher performance evaluations to be reduced — possibly even to zero.

Already, parents are lining up to push back against any cuts to school programs.

Niagara Falls parents and teachers were the latest to speak out against the relentless push continues against the Common Core and high - stakes testing.

Some parents are pushing back against a de-zoning that would do away with zoning lines altogether.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Success Academy wants to build a new neighborhood school, but parents are pushing back against the idea.

Amid a crowd of parents piloting strollers through laughing teenagers on school trips, Rothschild pushes toward the rail to make his case against the upright barosaur.

Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents.

So it's a combination of those two kinds of forces coming together to oppose it and taking advantage of events like the performance of students in New York where a certain number of parents then get concerned that their students don't look good under the new assessments and are pushing back against that kind of measurement system that's incorporated in the new assessments.

Parents supported reasonable measurement and accountability but were pushing back against a system that they believed compromised educational quality and failed to accurately evaluate teachers.

But parents at other schools say elementary math instruction has changed so much they've formed a group called Hoosiers Against the Common Core that's leading a statehouse push to withdraw Indiana from the new standards.

And even as they badmouth families, they also engage in intimidating families daring to speak out on the ground, and are working together with traditional districts to push back against Parent Power and choice initiatives in states such as Mississippi and Alabama.

On May Day, thousands of Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students launched strikes and boycotts to push back against austerity measures that would close nearly 300 schools, lay off 7,000 teachers, convert public schools into privatized charters, and cut public sector pensions.

In the new book, When School Policies Backfire (Harvard Education Press), Mac Iver examines how and why parents pushed back against a no - zero policy in Houston, Texas, that was approved in 2009.

But parents and education activists who have been fighting against the Common Core standards for years now protested Alexander's insistence on pushing through the massive «bipartisan» bill in order to prove Congress could get things done.

[1] Each wave of reform has been led by different combinations of leaders and stakeholders: government officials, educators, parents, and activists (focused on equity); business leaders and policymakers (focused on excellence / accountability); and parents (focused on choice and pushing back against assessment).

It can also be found at Clark and SAND School Parents Push Back Against the Charter School Hustle.

We're asking parents, students, and other community advocates to join us in the fight to maintain the federal school discipline guidance, which is a critical tool that can help schools and districts reduce the use of practices that push students out of school (e.g. suspensions and expulsions) and prevent them from disciplining in ways that discriminate against students of color.

Since the courageous parents and students of the Sherman Public Schools pushed - back against the unproven and invalid SBAC tests in ways comparable to our determined ancestors at Lexington and Concord 240 years ago, the proverbial shots have been heard around the State.

For the full commentary piece including some valuable resources go to: Clark and SAND School Parents Push Back Against the Charter School Hustle.

The movement to push back against the domination of testing in public education includes participants with diverse educational views — from people who believe the Federal government has no role in public education to parents of special education students outraged that their children are subjected to inappropriate measure.

Rep. Pat Nelson, R - Southaven, said the endorsement of the bill by The Parents Campaign, which had been lobbying against it, as one factor that pushed it toward passage.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

Meanwhile, around the nation, parents, students, teachers, teacher unions and elected officials continue the push back against the Common Core testing scheme.

Advocates, parents, and policymakers must push back against these policies to ensure that all children, including those with disabilities, get the education they deserve and is afforded to them by federal law.

In family cases in particular, one parent may be reluctant to push for enforcement proceedings against the other parent.

«I think there is still some expectation that mom will get more time than dad, and we are working to push back against that by saying that in some instances, shared parenting is appropriate,» she says.

McLean also pushed SBAND take an official position opposing Shared Parenting Legislation despite SBAND's one year - old policy against such positions and despite the fact that similar actions two years earlier resulted in SBAND being sued in Federal court.

Parents whose retirement prospects and financial security have taken a hard hit in the recession may also be more apt to push back against those old wedding traditions that they shoulder the whole bill.

If you're the one doing the lion's share of parenting, disciplining, and limit - setting, your teen is infinitely more likely to push back against your rules — even if he behaves perfectly around his other parent.

When the Julia Gillard government began in 2010, some Australian feminists pushed back against the 2006 law about shared parenting.