Sentences with phrase «school as a prison»

My child views school as a prison rather than a healthy learning environment.

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As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

[2] In recent years many lay individuals have received professional training in chaplaincy and are now appointed as chaplains in schools, hospitals, universities, prisons and elsewhere to work alongside or instead of official members of the clergy

Schools educated young males in the new civility, factories sublimated productive energies, and prisons were reconfigured as «penitentiaries» intended to lead them to internalize remorse.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

it as a former inmate of a Lutheran prison camp... I mean parochial school I can tell you they pay a dear price for it

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

East European Pentecostals have no wealth, institutional power or privilege to lose; so when need arises, they go to prison and turn their prisons into «Bible schools» to convert their jailers, as St. Paul did, They spread faith and hope to fellow prisoners as Black Muslims have done in some American prisons.

It appeared as inconceivable to privatise not only the oil, but also the water, the post office, the hospitals, the schools and even prisons.

It is sixty years since I became a Catholic; five of those years were spent in schools staffed by secular priests and religious, another four in approved schools staffed by laity and with Catholic chaplains; two years were spent in a local authority approved school and thirty years in prisons and the courts as a senior probation officer.

I would like to use your Lentil Walnut Apple Loaf photo (with the recipe title) as one of four photos to represent on Change.org the Canadian petition e-1205 asking the government to offer a mandatory vegan option in all federal and provincial public establishments such as schools, hospital, prisons, ect

A briefing document produced by the Good Food for Our Money campaign calling for legally binding sustainability standards for seafood served in public sector institutions such as government departments, hospitals, schools, prisons and the armed forces.

When, like Oher, your journey includes a mother who was a drug addict and a father murdered in prison, when you repeated the first and second grades, went to 11 different schools in your first nine years as a student and was dumped into foster care at age seven — well, you instinctively know who really wants you and who really cares.

Even the prison field trip by a school group didn't bother him, kids whispering his name as they passed by.

There was a school right next door that actually looked as dreary as a prison from the outside.

Major milestones achieved nationwide include: • the distribution of about 80,000 bags of cereal and legume seeds, 36,000 sachets of vegetable seeds and about 2,000,000 bags of fertilizer; • recruitment of 822 agricultural extension personnel; • establishment of a taskforce to assess status of warehouses and storage facilities nationwide for rehabilitation; • creation of market opportunities for farmers by linking them with institutional buyers such as School Feeding Programme and Prisons Service; and • electronic registration of over 34,000 farmers out of more than 200,000 manually registered.

Zellnor then went to Cornell Law School where he served as student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full - time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organization.

The Conservatives would also fund schemes to get graduates to serve in schools, police forces, prisons, and social care and mental health organisations — so they can use «their talents to tackle entrenched social problems», as detailed in their manifesto.

Her world outlook was based upon what she would refer to as Victorian values — voluntary schools, hospitals endowed by benefactions, improved prisons and new town halls.

The Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB), has called on government to procure made in Ghana rice for government agencies and institutions such as Ghana prisons and schools on government's school feeding programme.

After approving the tax increase, House lawmakers quickly signed off on a reworked spending plan that would funnel funds to local schools, social service programs, higher education and other state operations such as the lottery, prisons and road projects.

So just as we have backed programmes which get graduates teaching in our worst schools or working in social services, I can announce that I have asked Brett Wigdortz, Chief Executive of Teach First, to advise on setting up a new social enterprise that will work to develop a similar scheme for prisons.

After her marriage, she worked as a teacher in various schools and for the Prison Education Service.

She was brought up in a council house, went to a school they couldn't even be bothered to give a name — it was just called the Church of England school — and was told that as a future career she could visit people in prison.

More and more yoga classes are being offered in settings that serve populations with a high incidence of trauma, such as prisons, community health clinics, and low - income schools.

Her current passion is working on and developing content for this Website, as well as distributing SelfQuest ®, the software program that teaches Inner Bonding ® and is donated to prisons and schools, as well as sold to the general public.

Following the Level 1 Training, you will: • Join a global community of practitioners who are teaching iRest in yoga studios, sleep clinics, rehabilitation and healthcare facilities, hospitals, hospice, prisons, universities, schools, as well as in private practice.

Emanuelle plays Monique, a teenage girl who's been bounced around Brownsville foster homes, and decides to join the all - boys» high school wrestling team as way to connect to her father, Darrel (Yahya Abdul - Mateen II), recently released from prison.

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman has been noted for his ability to capture the nuances of life in American institutions such as prisons, hospitals, welfare offices, and high schools.

Christmas» script is by Susan Coyne, the co-creator of Slings And Arrows, and it follows the interpretation of Scrooge as Dickens» alter - ego, his miserliness a caricature of the novelist's preoccupation with money, which began when his opportunistic father, John Dickens (Jonathan Pryce), was sent to debtors» prison, forcing a 12 - year - old Charles to quit school and go to work at a shoe polish factory.

Conviction Premise: Hilary Swank stars as a high - school dropout who gets her degree and goes to law school so she can free her wrongly convicted brother (Sam Rockwell) from prison.

Thomas Mann (also seen in The Stanford Prison Experiment) leads this tale of unlikely friendship as Greg Gaines, an awkward acquaintance of everyone in high school who keeps everyone at the perfect calculated distance so as to avoid any conflict and drama, making it easy to coasting through his adolescence.

Any establishment offering more than 20 hours a week of teaching is legally obliged to be registered as a school, and now anyone running an unregistered school could face up to 51 weeks in prison.

Although Family Friendly Libraries is focusing on public libraries, its founder says the organization is interested in school, prison, and other libraries as well.

«Huge as the horrific taking of my son's life is... the maintenance of a society where young people are flushed down the school to prison pipeline is just as sad and just as wrong,» Connors said.

Partly as a result of federal pressure, many large urban districts have also embraced the idea that they should slash student suspensions and expulsions, on the grounds that doing so will interrupt the «school - to - prison pipeline.»

In addition to a north - south divide in school standards, in its annual report, Ofsted noted: an improvement in primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison education.

When I did, I couldn't help noticing how many kids also regarded their school day as time spent in a moderate security prison.

Although the people he works with in the prison are older adults, many were sentenced to prison as teenagers, making it easy for Smith to see a connection between them and his former high school students.

David Armstrong continued: «Identifying two indicators - emotional intelligence and social skills - and mapping these to the Achieving Schools Theory of Change, is an important first step in measuring the longer term outcomes of the programme, such as reduced risk of antisocial behaviour and spending time in prison and reduced risk of mental ill - health and long - term illness.

Further, they note that researchers have not yet established a causal relationship between the use of exclusionary discipline and either school climate or students» later lives — such as the school - to - prison pipeline.

A couple of days later, at a back - to - school event at the high school where she was working as a literacy coordinator, Tannis happened to sit next to a stranger who recognized her from church and mentioned that she was on the Women's Prison Ministry team.

This time, he will go to work on Capitol Hill as part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Fellowship, which provides an opportunity to gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the issues that engender a «school - to - prison pipeline,» and the policy mechanism necessary to address the inequalities that deny some students access to a complete and competitive education, from cradle through career.

«To me this means first acknowledging the work that community educators, mostly in communities of color, are doing to supplement the information our children receive about themselves, their histories, and the worlds in which we exist through schools and classrooms,» says Torres Covarrubias, citing as an example the work of her friend Patrisse Cullors - Brignac at Dignity and Power Now, an organization that helps people affected by the Prison Industrial Complex.

This is referred to as the school - to - prison pipeline and, while it's a worst - case scenario, it is a grim reality for many students.

With 75 per ‑ cent of children in the UK spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

We'll leave the argument for prisons to sociologists and political activists, though it was early education reformer Horace Mann who noted, «Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»

As a result, children with a parent in prison are at greater risk of homelessness, which in turn can have grave consequences: the receipt of social and medical services and assignment to a traditional public school all require a stable home address.