Sentences with phrase «school classmates on»

Whether it was serving on student government or representing my high school classmates on the city school board, I was used to leading people.

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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.

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.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

Not far away was Scot Peterson, a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy and Stoneman's school resource officer who heard the shooting, but stood outside the building as Cruz opened fire on his classmates.

(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.

Hogg and some of his classmates are gun control advocates, while Pollack says his focus is on making schools safer.

He preened with guns and knives on social media, bragged about shooting rats with his BB gun and got kicked out of school — in part because he had brought bullets in his backpack, according to one classmate.

My first business, when I was in high school, was selling a toy that I had imported from Greece on a holiday to my classmates at school when I was about 13.

Those efforts will be to remember the lives lost when an ex-student brought an AR - 15 to school and opened fire on former classmates and staffers.

The 17 who were lost in the senseless shooting on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, leave behind heartbroken family, friends, classmates and communities.

On a warm summer evening in 1954, my high school classmate Gerry and I walked up to the steel fence topped by tall bronze spears that surrounded the Eisenhower White House.

One of her fears came to pass Tuesday, when gunmen sought her out and opened fire on her school van, leaving her seriously wounded along with two other classmates.

We first meet Charlotte Simmons on the eve of her departure from Sparta, North Carolina, where, as a gifted student, she had felt rather isolated from (and superior to) her high school classmates.

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.

Five years later, on February 14, 2018, Robinson was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when the same boy, Nikolas Cruz, rampaged through the school, killing seventeen of her classmates and teaSchool when the same boy, Nikolas Cruz, rampaged through the school, killing seventeen of her classmates and teaschool, killing seventeen of her classmates and teachers.

He told me that he and his classmates had begun to dissect human bodies on their first day of medical school and that the experience had produced strong emotions which had no outlet.

The printer insisted on introducing me to another customer — a Harvard Divinity School student, one of Shelly Webb's classmates.

Jean Sulivan reports that one of his classmates at school, when asked what Jesus» last words were on the cross, replied:

In speaking to him, I've learned that he spends hours and hours in sports practices, and is such a perfectionist about his school work that he'll easily put in double or triple the time his classmates do on each assignment.

Even though Smith has a son, she was righteously outraged on behalf of all her son's female classmates, and took it up with school officials.

As a parent of children at the Waldorf School of Baltimore I can attest to the value of Waldorf Education, based on my experience with my own children and their classmates.

In general, 8 - year - old children enjoy school and will count on and value relationships with a few close friends and classmates.

One week later, your child's classmate puts out the word during recess that he will be passing out birthday cupcakes to all comers from his class on the sidewalk 10 feet past the school grounds boundary.

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!

Two days ago it seemed sure that the worst homework assignment of the year would be the «go on a date with a classmate and act ladylike» assignment from a Utah Financial Literacy class, but the week isn't even out yet, and a Pennsylvania math teacher is joining the competition with a high school math problem about sexual assault.

Last school year, my daughter and her Grade 1 classmates worked on a classroom project called «My Favorite Part of the Body.»

One of my high school classmates concluded that logic was unreliable and could say anything you wanted it to and that you might as well rely on faith.

Rosenworcel told stories of kids around the country going to diners and parking lots to access the internet service they need to complete school assignments — and how fixes like Wi - Fi on school buses could help those kids keep up with their classmates.

Before high school, a child is not likely to fully appreciate that if she plays on a select team she may often be practicing or going to bed early, worn out after a hard day of exercise, while her classmates are watching TV or socializing, or she may be getting up early, while others are giving their growing bodies the rest they so desperately need.

I still cringe at my failure to completely understand what was going on at my daughter's school and to react to things that were happening to some of her classmates behind the teachers» backs.

As I mentioned it doesn't contain any nuts so you could even make a bunch and put them into some cute cellophane bags and have your child pass them out to classmates on their first day of school.

To help your child feel less shy, introduce him to as many of his future classmates as you can on your visits to the school.

Facing new school projects and explaining adoption to new classmates can bring on different feelings as children grow.

In my family, we always stress that school is just like business, teachers and classmates deserve the consideration of being on time and looking ready to learn.

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.

Marx stressed that they aren't looking to place all of the burden on schools, but youngsters may behave differently among classmates than when they are at home.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

It impacts on the individuals who fall behind their classmates, and on schools who are punished by the way that absenteeism impacts on their school bandings.

THE BRONX — Abel Cedeno, the high school student arrested for fatally stabbing one classmate and wounding another, was indicted Tuesday on a single charge of manslaughter, the Bronx District Attorney said.

As the sound of students coming back from lunch filled the hallways, Caroline Skahen, a fifth - grader at Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School and her classmates were in the computer lab, quietly focused on their screens.

Littleton High School student Savannah Young (right) hugs classmate Ariana Checkots after a rally to honor victims of the Stoneman Douglas High school shooting at the Colorado State Capitol on FebruaSchool student Savannah Young (right) hugs classmate Ariana Checkots after a rally to honor victims of the Stoneman Douglas High school shooting at the Colorado State Capitol on Februaschool shooting at the Colorado State Capitol on February 21.

He and more than 80 classmates from Georgetown Prepatory School, including New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, signed a letter urging the Senate to act quickly on the nominee.

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In Tallahassee, they hope to talk to legislators about school safety and gun control on Wednesday, determined to ensure that the deaths of their 17 classmates and teachers last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland bring about cschool safety and gun control on Wednesday, determined to ensure that the deaths of their 17 classmates and teachers last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland bring about cSchool in Parkland bring about change.

Among the seven names sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday as candidates for chief judge of the Court of Appeals are a former Manhattan U.S. attorney, Westchester's current district attorney, a former law school classmate of the governor and the state's former chief administrative judge — the same position current chief judge Jonathan Lippman held before his appointment.

Moriah graduate Nicholas Allen took to the stage Tuesday morning at Schroon Lake Central School, along with former classmates and other members of On Common Ground.

Borough President Scott Stringer also called for all school trips to be immediately halted after revelations there were no lifeguards on duty when the sixth - grader Nicole Suriel and her classmates at Columbia Secondary School entered the water at Long Beach on Tuschool trips to be immediately halted after revelations there were no lifeguards on duty when the sixth - grader Nicole Suriel and her classmates at Columbia Secondary School entered the water at Long Beach on TuSchool entered the water at Long Beach on Tuesday.

On a single day in 1975, a medical school student named Harry Ostrer and a classmate drew blood from 500 people in Riverdale, New York.

Students who are bullied because of sexual orientation have willing defenders in their classmates — motivated by leadership, courage, their beliefs in justice, altruism and having lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender friends, according to a Boston College professor and co-author of a new report on bullying at school.