Sentences with phrase «rich white kids»

He's not expecting to enjoy it, and certainly not expecting to fall in love with one horse in particular, Chance, and begin learning to play polo, a sport he always assumed was only for rich white kids.

They were only considering private schools where she would be surrounded by rich white kids.

«The concern is not that kids with different ethnicities are going to be schooled with our [so - called] «rich white kids,»» said Abramson.

And of course it made sense — a bunch of entitled rich white kids with an poor African - American woman at their mercy.

I mean, its just whinning rich white kids talking about how great jesus is.

While the «rich white kid with a narcissistic father who sees them as a nuisance» trope is dreadfully trite stuff (have we forgotten «Crazy / Beautiful ``?)

And despite the stereotype of a Teach for America teacher as a rich white kid from Harvard, the organization had built a special recruitment team to seek candidates at 103 historically black colleges across the country.

Not exact matches

Odds are your 8 kids will grow up more adjusted without having their mind full of fantasy tales so that old white guys can obtain the riches and power they want.

They have a pretty rich chocolate flavour so for kids I will be adding a sweet (vegan) buttercream — husband declared them «excellent» with a little Elana's pantry vegan white chocolate frosting — and he's a sweet - toothed gluten fiend!

Because we are tired of Albany politicians destroying the future for our kids and we're tired of the Democrat party thinking that a slate of rich white men is what the party should have come November.

If I've learned anything from The O.C., it's that Tijuana is a very dangerous place for rich overpriveleged white kids people to be partying in.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Now states will be able to claim that they have «narrowed achievement gaps» when all they've done is make their tests so easy to pass that virtually all kids — black and white, rich and poor — do so, magically erasing any group differences.

Wouldn't you like to know whether it's more successful with girls or boys, with rich or poor kids, with white or minority students, etc.?

Obsessed with print - rich environments, they coat walls and surfaces with «a vertiginous array of labels, vocabulary lists, calendars, graphs...» that strike kids as white noise or senseless distraction.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is being dropped by half of Massachusetts school districts in favour of a new test (PARCC) which the Commissioner of the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said would «help the state reduce the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, white and minority, by giving teachers better information about which kids need extra support».

The story was on the back - burner for a while but was rekindled in June when Chicago Teacher Union (CTU) President Karen I - never - fail - to - be-offensive Lewis, went on a tear and blamed «rich white people» for the educational woes of minority kids.

Supporting integration means realizing that it's not okay to test the latest ed reform trend on Black and Latino kids while their whiter, richer, more heavily - resourced counterparts are succeeding through some pretty traditional means.

As White noted, «There's EVERYTHING wrong with rich people pushing policy to which neither the philanthropist nor their kids are subject.»

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

The hero is not a rich white man but a poor black kid in the South, Eddie, whose young life unravels when his activist father is murdered.

Blue - collar black kid meets snooty white rich girl and they play out their rivalries on the running track.