Sentences with phrase «school boy trying»

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I had more than one guidance counsellor admonish me for not trying harder in school, suggesting that «it would be a shame if a smart boy like you ended up working on an assembly line.»

Elizabeth felt the sting of the latter when she tried to set up a boarding school for boys, with the help of a kind Episcopalian pastor — who didn't hold her Catholicism against her — only to have parents angrily withdraw their sons, once they discovered Elizabeth was a Catholic.

I can't wait for the boys to try it when they get home from school.

I don't know about y ’ all, but I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that my boys only have two weeks of school left.

During high school and college I tried to stay away from junk food — all of a sudden boys were important and so was my waistline.

They also pass well as «game day» fare, which is important around this time of year when you live with the quarterback of the senior boys school football team and there are fantasy football leagues and suicide pools you're trying to keep track of each week.

Strange has been this season; like an obedient and polite school boy Barca has tried their best to stay out of the La Liga fight especially in the recent weeks, only to be dragged back right into it by fate, circumstances, whatever you may call it.

Williams Felipe Massa 3 — Lance Stroll 0 Race: Massa Lance Stroll is becoming the new boy in school that everyone tries to beat up.

I try to shut down my computer when the kids get home from school and spend some time giving each one of my three boys the attention they deserve.

So, I'm really trying not to spend too much ink or emotional energy on this one, but... Yesterday, it was widely reported that New Jersey governor Chris Christie was asked by an 11 - year - old boy on the campaign trail what he'd do about school food... [Continue reading]

I've given her individual attention, I get sitters for the boys and take her out alone, I've tried talking to her and truly listening (she says she doesn't think anyone likes her and her dad doesn't want her), we do a TON of fun stuff, I go to every school function.

My boy starts school this year and is just mark making and so I shall try and encourage his name by uppercase.

At one point, another parent visiting the school heard Perez's screams and tried to pry the food from the boy's mouth.

Last year, when the boys started kindergarten and got home from school (at 10:45 am), I tried to have a snack ready for them and we'd talk about how their day was.

«I know what my dad went through when I was a school boy and I don't think that the Guardian or anybody else should belittle his suffering or try to get a 79 - year - old man to serve their agenda instead of agreeing and being proud of what his son does.»

She's clearly trying to cement a reputation as a plain - speaking authentic voice in the Conservative party, standing up to the public school boys who've briefed against her since she resigned last week.

David Hahn, nicknamed Glow Boy by his high school friends, tried to build a nuclear reactor in a potting shed in his backyard — and came shockingly close to succeeding.

She considers how people try to escape from such troubles; from boys at boarding school who turn their attention to games or work, to the Buddhist practice of living in the present moment.

You know my high school boys are athletes and I am always trying to help them fuel their bodies correctly, as well as myself!

I scooped up two colors with their catchy names like After School Boy Blazer and the tried and true Ballerina Slippers.

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Mobile phone video captured the uniformed officer trying to detain a boy, reported to be 15, while being goaded by a gang of teens outside a school Please Note: Only currently visible results are printed.

Trainee primary school teacher who tried to have sex with a 14 - year - old boy he met on dating app Grindr is spared jail as «sympathetic» judge says: «You Why do Children get angry?

Baumer then returns to his home town towards the end of the film only to find his school teacher spouting the same nonsense to more young boys, trying to get them to join up and fight.

I originally agreed with this site's less - than - enthused review of the first movie, which was «edgy» in an obvious, trying - too - hard way, occasionally wearing its «R» rating with all the misplaced pride of a middle school boy sporting a chocolate milk mustache as if it were a Sam Elliott - style soup strainer (although — kudos!

SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14 - year - old boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents» relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

We get familiar tropes, such as a single dad trying to find his sons, a teenage boy who is too shy to ask the school's beauty out but ends up becoming a hero in her eyes, and rival storm chasers (a truly annoying pair of «reality show» - caliber, stereotypical rednecks) who muck things up more often than not.

The questions come from clueless frat boys, from wistful mothers, from grade school kids trying to understand older brothers and sisters.

Along with these immortal motifs is the story of a group of impressionable young boys who have to deal with the pressures of attending a grueling prep school, parents who have their futures perfectly laid out for them, and the weight of trying to figure out their identities and their place in the world.

scuss This: Comments Off Add to del.icio.us Digg it A sickly boy milks his illness to try and convince his school to break a world record in this lighthearted wintry kids» comedy.

What follows is a pretty typical year in the life of a high school girl, navigating her relationship with her best friend (Beanie Feldstein) and the boys she likes (Lucas Hedges and Timothee Chalamet) as she tries to improve her grades and her standing in life to escape the suffocation of her family.

Alex Wolff plays Derf in the haunting true depiction of that centers on the notorious murderer's teenage years and how Dahmer (Ross Lynch) tried to navigate through high school and the struggles he faced to fit in — before he went on to famously mutilate, murder and devour 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Basically, it's about a quartet of boys fresh from high school who go for broke and take road trips to skateboarding competitions trying to crash their way into the arena in any way they can.

Starting a new school is tough for a boy named Billy who ends up trying to figure out How to Eat Fried Worms.

The boy who tried to commit suicide at Wildlife said that he told a dean, the school social worker and the principal that he was being tormented, but ultimately, all that did was make the bullying worse.

Reward is also important, but try to avoid the assembly award in week nine of fourth term; it's usually a long line of boys in mismatched school uniform, with colour in their hair and some concealed digital item hidden in their pocket.

Since it's an all - boys school, we have tried activities connected to competition, teamwork, and brotherhood.

As a result, too many boys fall behind, conclude that school is for girls, and never try to catch up.

One expert who visited some schools summed up the problem by describing a scene that was common to progressive schools created under the umbrella of many early Gates grants: «A bright Ivy League graduate working with a teenage boy in a wool hat trying to get him interested in doing some sort of project.»

It could be an all - girls school or an all - boys school or whatever it is, we're trying to find that nirvana for that child.»

Lerina Cordero, mother of a first grade boy at West Athens Elementary in south Los Angeles, says parents there had been trying for years to get the school's leadership to stop rampant bullying and...

While Moales was unsuccessful in trying to get approval to turn his private religious school into an all - boys publicly funded charter school last year he has, as noted, returned this year as the founding member of the «Governing Board» that will oversee Steve Perry's new Bridgeport Charter Schools.

In 2014, one student tried to stab another boy in the school bathroom.

Lyga, author of the popular Fan Boy and Goth Girl (set in the same high school as Boy Toy), fashions a heavier burden for himself: he tries to tie so many plotlines together, the story staggers under the weight of the storytelling.

Readers will easily connect with both Sunny (a white girl adjusting to a new, extended stepfamily) and Ray (an African American boy who is a harbinger of the «invaders» from the North who open a Freedom School, register blacks to vote, and try to integrate public venues).

What is amazing is that the man who single - handedly destroyed the «record» store with 99 cent iTunes is trying to prop up a bunch of old - school, good - old - boys - club publishers.

I tried to coerce my boys into accompanying me to Mustafa's school but they had other priorities, namely swimming and counting their money.

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In the middle of a killing game where everyone is trying to figure out how they ended up in this school and why, there is still time for a scene where the boys decide to gather together and spy on the girls in the bath.

The boy had previously been expelled from the school for making similar threats against a student he said was «trying him,» authorities said.