Sentences with phrase «school as a teenager»

Another rugby playing goalkeeper was former Wales international Dai Davies, who turned out for West Wales Schools as a teenager.

But that's not quite the same thing as graduating Medical school as a teenager.

Of course, he made his mark as a young figurative painter and drawer after attending the Norwegian Nerderum School as a teenager.

At a time when art history was less and less the standard measure in contemporary art, Kasseböhmer — who regularly skipped school as a teenager so that he could visit art museums instead — returned to the classical repertoire.

Kenny Buchanan, 44, dropped out of school as a teenager.

I remember while in high school as a teenager, we were taken for a tour to the ROM.

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The action comes one week after the FDA disclosed a nationwide crackdown on underage sales of Juul e-cigarettes, which have become popular among some teenagers as a way to vape at school and in public.

His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life of single - motherhood and squandered opportunities.

The two met as teenagers, riding the bus to their high school in Montreal's South Shore, and almost immediately went into business together designing websites for local schools.

As teenagers in the Netherlands, Jobert Abma and Michiel Prins hacked into the high school TV station.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

Studies have shown half to two - thirds of the rise in non-participation is due to demographic changes as baby boomers reach retirement age and teenagers choose to focus on school rather than working part time.

He moved to Miami with his family as a teenager, where he developed a love for computers and graduated valedictorian of his high school.

Zachary Cruz, the brother of the teenager who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month, was freed from jail Thursday afternoon as part of a plea deal reached in his trespassing case.

On that basis, my intention is not to discuss the rights or wrongs of abortion, but to examine the research evidence on issues such as secret abortions for teenagers, schools offering the morning - after pill, etc..

The recent Reynolds High School shooting in Troutdale, Oregon was perpetrated by a teenager raised as LDS.

«My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers: its influence grew ¯ infiltrating schools and civic bodies as well as politics, and even religion ¯ before it was fully recognized for the monster it was.»

I remember this myth being thrown in my face little more than ten years after the Holocaust, when, as a Jewish teenager, I was confronted in our Chicago high school by another Jewish student — Sam, who screamed at me for wanting «to be chosen by that god,» after most of his family in Europe was murdered in Auschwitz.

But to act with the purpose of compensating for immorality is always wrong, as when we set up secondary school clinics to dispense pills and condoms to teenagers.

Jill, who I've known since high school; Jill, who could tell you every stupid crush I had as a teenager; Jill, who has seen me cry like a baby and dance like a fool; Jill, who has prayed with me and struggled with me and grown with me for years.

Dot went to work as a nurse in a high school for pregnant teenagers.

Although I never met Brittanie Cecil, and I've never been to Columbus, Ohio, I can not begin to express the grief that wells up inside my heart whenever I see the school photograph of the little teenager, on the cusp of adolescence, her blonde hair pulled back into a ribbon, and her blue eyes sparkling at the prospect of all those summer pool parties, those early - fall hayrides, her prom, her high school graduation with the cap and gown sailing high into a sky as wide and full as her hopes and dreams.

Granola bars are a popular food item at our house — it's a quick breakfast as teenagers are running out the door, good to add to lunch - as a snack coming home from school, etc... I really have to get back to making them myself because I can make a bigger batch — I control...

Over the course of his 20 - year culinary career, Camacho worked his way up from running four school cafeterias in Mexico as a teenager to becoming a chef in well - established restaurants throughout Northern California.

Part II — Jesse Boss, On Being Vegan as a Teenager Jesse Boss is a fifteen - year - old, home schooled student living in San Francisco.

I have always been a morning person... even as a teenager I never was one to sleep until noon, or even need my parents to wake me up for school.

I remember my first shawarma in laffah (Iraqi bread) as a teenager visiting Israel with high school.

Although not without controversy he's akin to a modern - day hero by providing disadvantaged teenagers the same opportunity he had in the restaurant industry (Fifteen), taking fake fried meat and flavoured milk out of kids lunches (School Dinners) and explaining to people that a hot chip is not counted as a vegetable serving (The Food Revolution & The Ministry of Food).

As such, we are confident that the newly formed NICA Oregon League leadership team will be extremely successful in helping Oregon's teenagers establish mountain biking clubs in schools across the state.

With increased specialization and dedication to established sports such as football, baseball / softball, basketball, and soccer, it is difficult for newer sports to find room on the high school sports schedule and busy social calendar of teenagers.

Given the NBA's age minimum and the heightened importance of picking the right school at which to make an impression, that institutional knowledge must be valuable to the second generation, just as it would be for any teenagers.

He grew up in Wilkes Barre, Pa., the son of an Orthodox rabbi, and as a teenager attended an Orthodox boarding school that didn't have a basketball team.

I have found that many parents hold on to stereotypes from when they were teenagers as to which schools were considered «good» or «not so good.»

According to those officials, they had no choice because some other students had «complained» about Boland's attire; but here's the thing: as a school official, you don't have to do something because a whiny teenager tells you to.

The middle school years are excited ones, as your child grows and develops into a teenager.

As a teenager, she may have time to volunteer at a nursing home or she may have the skills to tutor younger children who struggle in school.

But I think the idea that teenagers can have bipolar disorder, that children can evidence some of these same kind of behaviors is progress for the field, because a generation before me was taught that children couldn't have depression, and we know that there are kids in junior high school that are trying to kill themselves as a result of untreated depression.

Sarah's book about the experience, Fed Up With Lunch, contains a «Guide to Quiet Revolution,» which parents, teachers, kids and teenagers, as well as community members can use as a road map to make health and wellness a priority in neighborhood schools.

«I feel like it was very derogatory, I feel like it was humiliating and this was held as an assembly with the school,» said Nicole Edwards, the teenager's mother, to her local Fox affiliate.

The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.

Show interest in your teenager's school and extracurricular interests and activities and encourage him to become involved in activities such as sports, music, theater, and art.

As mentioned above, teenagers need about 9 hours of sleep a night, but between school, sports, and other activities, they typically only get 6 — 7!?

As the average teenager spends the majority of their waking hours at school, it makes sense that academic pressure can send a teen into a depressive slump.

Gold still remains as a trendy choice, so help your teenagers heading to high school or college this fall by surprising them with a set of chic gold pens?

As a high school student in Birmingham, Michigan, Erica Schwegman is a busy teenager.

Middle schoolers and teenagers need cozy time with their parents just as much as, or even more than, the little guys.

Our teenager was busy with theatre practice or after school activities but we made sure to have our moments with her as well.

The book concludes with «Mrs. Q's Guide to Quiet Revolution: An Action and Resource Guide» which provides advice for different stakeholders — parents, teachers, kids, teenagers, chefs and nutritionists — as well as a Resources Guide to point would - be school food reformers toward helpful organizations, blogs and reading material.

As a teenager in Massachusetts, Johnson came out while a co-captain of his high school football team.

The teenager is expected to resume her education as a first - year Senior Secondary School pupil in Delta State.