Sentences with phrase «school classmates for»

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Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

Harvard Business School classmates Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss started Rent the Runway after noticing Hyman's sister didn't want to spend a lot of money for a dress she would wear only once to a wedding.

In starting Pinrose, Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates Erika Shumate and Christine Luby had a vision to make high - quality fragrance a playful, effortless, everyday experience for the modern millennial.

The unpredictability impacted assignments at school where his classmates would never be certain if he'd show up for group projects, he said, and weekend trips to Toronto hinged on whether he would be called in on a Friday night in the final hours before his shift was to start.

Although Tyson, who was Yancopoulos» friend and classmate at the Bronx High School of Science, was quick to point out that he was not a winner or semifinalist in the competition (in fact he didn't even enter), knowing other students who were was a point of pride for him.

Harvard Business School classmates Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss co-founded Rent the Runway six years ago as a dress rental site for women.

Or not, because when Parsons reported to school for the first day of the fall semester, having resisted the temptation to confess, he was allowed to remain with his classmates.

For his part, Blankfein said he did well in school not because he was «some roaring genius» but because he wanted to succeed, whereas most of his classmates couldn't have cared less.

King was writing short stories for his school classmates, then for publication in the pulps, then for submission to publishers — all the time writing in uncomfortable makeshift spaces (he's tall and the desks he used were not).

Hanrahan and Dua met as classmates at Harvard Business School and had the idea for Handy (originally called Handybook) while sharing an apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(CNN) For years before Nikolas Cruz gunned down classmates and teachers at his former high school, his mother had repeatedly called police to the home to help deal with his violent outbursts, threats and self - destructive behavior, according to police documents obtained by CNN on Friday.

WASHINGTON — Little has returned to normal for the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School since Feb. 14, when a gunman killed 14 of their classmates and three staff members.

A Marietta, Ga., man, Robert Meaders, organized a campaign for a former Marietta High School classmate Missy Cantrell Wilford, whose daughter Maddy is recovering from wounds suffered in the attack.

Barna and her classmates Kevin Trejos and Lewis Mizen, all seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., each wore a red ribbon representing the color of their school in honor of the victims as they talked about their experience and their push for stricter gun safety meaSchool in Parkland, Fla., each wore a red ribbon representing the color of their school in honor of the victims as they talked about their experience and their push for stricter gun safety measchool in honor of the victims as they talked about their experience and their push for stricter gun safety measures.

For a large part of the past school year, my daughter and her classmates went to school under police protection.

This is due to my friend and high school classmate (though he dropped out his Jr. year and did not graduate with our class) Donald Ray Pollock, who lived up the road from me in Knockemstiff, and has used it for the setting in his critically acclaimed fiction.

That pitch came from the left arm of Ross Baumgarten, a junior high school classmate in a suburb north of Chicago, who went on to pitch for the hometown White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

My restiveness was increased by memorizing Luther's Small Catechism for confirmation, and by, arguments in boarding school with, for example, Southern Baptist classmates about such matters as infant baptism.

«In 1971, he attended LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas, and was expelled from the school for keeping a female classmate locked in his closet.»

I have loved caramel cake since a classmate brought it in for a party back in elementary school.

i used this recipe for my daughter to bring to school for her french cafe and her classmates and teachers said it was outstanding

Made them for a school party, hoping to show my classmates that vegan desserts are just as good without the cruelty!

My husband is a fine cook and claims that he learned how to cook when he was in graduate school in order to be able to invite his female classmates over for dinner.

My high school classmate and local photographer just posted this photo of the beautiful Tamaqua Depot Square all decked out for the holidays!

When I was in high school, he terrorized my classmates with his enthusiastic — and, we thought, preposterously unfair — enforcement of the rule of law, nabbing kids for drinking at school dances and hiding out near our school's unsubtly designated pot hangout.

The pair, who were classmates at Hillcrest High School in Alabama, were close enough for Anderson to consider Moss his «brother.»

Imagine for a minute you're in middle school and running for class president; you have spent time campaigning and giving speeches to classmates.

A few classmates from my German class are heading over to Berlin for a «Summer School».

And a classmate pulled Maddy aside to thank her for getting involved with the Challenge School team — she, too, was less anxious due to the new schedule.

Chris Liebig was a former classmate of mine at both college and law school, yet somehow, despite attending the same schools together for years on end, we never actually met!

Our school doesn't allow kids to bring candy for classmates.

My daughter changed schools and the different routine she's having to adjust to, as well as new classmates and teachers, has thrown her for a serious loop.

Became a family tradition to send them to school with my kids for their classmates.

If your child is receiving the cold shoulder at school from friends, former friends or from classmates, it could make for difficult times at home.

Several other large high schools in the area, including Maine South in Park Ridge and Barrington, use a homeroom program to help students develop an affinity for the school and classmates.

Forgot to get the candy bags ready for your kids to bring into school for all their classmates?

I've been full of reflection and gratitude, as a large group of elementary, middle, and high school friends assembled for a remembrance gathering for one of our beloved classmates.

For one thing, one of the factors that can reduce the immune system's ability to fight off infections is not getting enough sleep, and as we know, kids in school are constantly exposed to contagious illnesses such as colds from classmates.

In far too many school districts, there are students who would qualify for free meals, except for the fact that their family never fills out the form, either because they forget, or they don't understand that it is important, or (more often) the child is too embarrassed to self - identify as poor in front of his classmates, and so he either doesn't give his parents the form or doesn't turn it in at school.

In Pre-K I made this Sweet End of School Classmate Gift, and last year for Christmas I made gingerbread play dough with a sweet gingerbread prayer, but will have to post that later this year.

The country's economic downturn can be measured in the breakfast line at McNair Elementary School, where students collect a Styrofoam tray with a banana, cereal and juice box before joining classmates for reading.

Well, before we go crazy thinking about all the back to school preparations, let's talk about a fun Back to School Craft that your kiddos could put together for their new teachers and / or classschool preparations, let's talk about a fun Back to School Craft that your kiddos could put together for their new teachers and / or classSchool Craft that your kiddos could put together for their new teachers and / or classmates!

A classmate at primary school brought in treats for Rosh Hashanah and I'd gone home hopped up on cake and asked if we were.

Using the pseudo name Gull Makee, she wrote a diary for the BBC Urdu Service blog, narrating how she and her classmates still managed to attend the school by wearing normal clothes instead of uniforms, how fearful she once felt upon overhearing a passerby's threatening phone call, and how frustrating it was for her to learn about the school's closure for winter vacations, with no announcement about its reopening date.

Terry's career as a successful political operative dates back to 1972, when he served as the campaign manager for an 18 - year - old classmate, Thomas DiNapoli, who was running for the Mineola School Board.

Ivor Bulmer - Thomas, «Too big for his boots» Mocking Harold Wilson's claim that half his classmates were too poor for shoes, Bulmer - Thomas» quip at the 1949 Conservative conference implied Wilson was somewhat egotistical: «If ever he went to school without any boots it was because he was too big for them».

East Ramapo High School junior Jacqueline Johnson says many of her classmates have struggling families and college didn't seem like an option for them.

According to the New Haven Register, Sotomayor told fellow classmates at her Yale Law School Reunion over the weekend she had planned to buy a new outfit for the event, but the White House instead asked she bring five suits to Washington, one of which they would pick for her to wear.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

And I will never accept the idea that it's ok for children from poorer backgrounds to do worse at school than their wealthier classmates.