Sentences with phrase «school band practice»

While attending an early morning elementary school band practice with one of my children, I saw something sad and troubling.

At home, my oldest son had school band practice after school every day to prepare for the State Festival Band Competition scheduled for the end of April.

I've seen school bands practicing in my neighborhood to get ready for marching the parade route, and I passed floats driving down the interstate with full police escort.

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«A New Hope» is a brutally dark anthem about the days after Columbine, only a few short blocks from the bands practice studio, and it is disclosure into the thoughts of high school students.

As I reported in two stories in the New York Times this spring, lunch shaming is the practice of singling out children in the cafeteria over school meal debt by offering them alternate cold meals such as a cheese sandwich, marking them with a wrist band or hand stamp, or, in rare cases, requiring them to do chores in exchange for a meal.

For those unfamiliar with the term, «lunch shaming» refers to practices in the cafeteria that single out children with school meal debt, such as making the child wear a special wrist band, stamping the child's arm or hand, throwing the child's meal away in front of peers, or even making a child do chores, like wiping down tables, in exchange for a meal.

The installation of artificial turf, which already has been completed in other metro school systems such as Cobb, Forsyth and Fulton counties, offers other benefits in addition to the savings, such as fewer injuries to students, faster recovery time after rain and increased usage opportunities by multiple athletic teams and marching bands for both games and practices.

Now, it's one thing to feel competent at home, under the gaze of an autonomy - supportive parent, and quite another to feel competent at school, or at sports practice, or at band practice.

Tuesday: 1 grade bird banding field trip / mommy volunteer in school library / tack practice / piano lessons / soccer practice / finish prep - teach gluten free class

She shuttled us to soccer practices, piano lessons, basketball practices, flute lessons, play dates, volleyball games, marching band rehearsals, the pool center, band concerts, baseball games, high school musicals... All while working part - time and still making huge contributions to her scientific field.

Meanwhile, as some of you know I work retail hours, I was feeling more and more miserable for not being there for their practices and games, school meet - ups, band performances, etc (hello retail nights and weekends) and Brian on the other hand was about to lose his mind turning into 5 people not only to provide for our family but become the driver for all of the kids activities.

A young man named Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) is practicing late at night at his New York music school, one of the best in the country, when his drumming catches the ear of the infamous Mr. Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the most important teacher at the school and the conductor for its most important jazz band.

One night as he's drilling alone in a practice room, Andrew attracts the attention of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the much - feared conductor of the school's elite studio jazz band.

A female high - school student believes she has been sexually harassed by the school's band director, who, besides touching her during practice sessions at school, has hinted at his interest in having sex with her when the band plays at school - sponsored musical events away from school.

Arts education remains an extracurricular, and school administrators focused on math and reading can push it aside: The arts are fine, so let kids who are interested in them study in an afterschool program like band practice.

A group of nearby independent schools could band together and agree to prohibit students from taking more than three AP courses or jointly lobby nearby colleges to revise admissions practices that unduly jack up achievement pressure.

At school they study, but they also make friends, play, join sports teams and bands, and generally learn and practice an acceptable range of public behavior.

In fact, she built such a stellar reputation that students struggling in math were assigned to her during the school's daily RIT - band period: a time when specialized learning groups gather for English Language Arts or math - focused lessons that prioritize blended learning practices and help students better understand grade - level concepts.

She's mostly your average teenager — she plays flute in the school band, has weekly basketball practice and reads Robert Frost poems for English class.

A high school marching band practiced hip - shaking New Orleans brass band classics.

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For a generation whose parents whisked them off to soccer or band practice after school and wouldn't think of letting them play unsupervised in the street, unstructured time with others is important.

I had to walk Sprog 2 to school and collect Sprog 1's trumpet after band practice.

It ended up feeling crowded and cluttered all the time because my husband would come home from band practices with his guitar, amps and briefcase and my son would come in with his instrument from school and it would all get set in around the furniture.

When you're married and sick there's another adult to take your child to band practice at 7.15 am; help them with their homework after school, duck to the chemist and get you some more Codral, sort out dinner, pack the dishwasher...

Fall in the Midwest is glorious colors, crisp mornings, hearing the high school marching band practicing Early day, afternoon blue skies with white clouds, the leaves turning to shades of yellow, gold, orange and red, football Saturday's, fire pit week ends and all things pumpkin; the colors, the shapes, the tastes of pumpkin bread, the warmth of a pumpkin spice latte, Ahh, how I love fall!