Sentences with phrase «school left my children»

This school left my children nervous with low self esteem.

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In spite of her busy schedule, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg drops her two young children off at school in the morning and leaves work by 5:30 p.m. to be at home with them.

Typically, incoming presidents have allowed a grace period for politically appointed ambassadors to leave the country so that they have time to transition their children out of schools and prepare for life back in the US.

As he was leaving a statehouse meeting in mid-July, Patrick was asked by reporters to respond to Kennedy's complaints about the cost of additional children in schools.

The second of five children, Apostolopoulos left school after fifth grade, and later trained to become an electrician.

«Any child who leaves school by 2010 without real IT skills will be setting themselves up for a life in poverty,» he said.

Instead of «snow days» my Minnesotan childhood was filled with «cold days» — the difference being that «cold days» are when it is literally unsafe to leave children outdoors waiting for the school bus.

In an effort to be a more family - friendly workplace, many companies grant mothers and fathers the freedom to leave the office earlier to pick up their children from school, attend their daughter's soccer game or watch their son's orchestra performance.

Following the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead, Dick's suspended the sale of certain kinds of semiautomatic rifles.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

Before the mass shooting that left 17 adults and children dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Cruz had exchanged texts with the son, who was a student there.

No child left behind — I know quite a few families that have have had to use that law to force the schools to teach their children.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

There is not a day that goes by that their is some liberal telling me what I can say and not say (political correctness), what I should and should not eat, what I should and should not wear, what light bulbs I have to buy, what car I should and should not drive, indoctrinate my children in schools with left wing dribble, take my property and do things with it I don't approve of.

Maintaining separation of church and stat s leaves everyone free to practice their own beliefs and not have government forcing other's religion down our children's throats at school.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

They are much more likely to leave of school; receive inadequate prenatal care; rely on public assistance to raise a child; develop health problems; or end up divorced.

With her own children grown up and left home, she became «Auntie Faith» to several generations of boys from the John Fisher School, attending the weekly meetings of the Faith group and providing toast and tea after the talks.

The attack was Pakistan's deadliest overall «since the December 2014 massacre at an army - run school that left 143 people dead, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians,» reports the Los Angeles Times.

One does not have to abhor homosexuality in order to understand that the recent change in law has opened a wide door that will leave the school system, and children in general, vulnerable to further legal changes that will always go towards greater licentiousness, and less protection for the vulnerable.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

I know there are a lot of things I was taught in history class as a young child that the school «left out» very important facts.

Under his «No Mind Left Behind» policy, children were taught science, history, psychology and critical thinking from their first year of school.

Events at work or school, children leaving home, new interests of one family member, or any change in social relationships will affect family relationships.

Kozol visits schools where the policies of No Child Left Behind are being enacted.

As children, we first mourned the roses in October, the neighbor's night - blooming cactus when we left for school, the rotting tree wrung out by lightning.

Thus, if a single mother works to support her family and must leave her children unattended for a few hours after school, it could be construed as neglect and must be reported.

On Monday, October 27, 1987, Herbert Ernesto Anaya was killed by two men firing handguns with silencers as he left his home to drive two of his six children to school.

Children were removed from their homes, put in to Residential schools where they were horribly abused, forced to leave the beliefs behind for fear of severe punishment at the hands of their christian masters, forced to lose their Native Tongue... all in some warped vision to tear down a culture and destroy it.

Vice President Joe Biden released the new rules on yesterday (June 18), six months after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 dead, including 20 children.

We agree that the feminist assault on traditional sex roles has changed professional spheres for the better (medical schools and law schools are now 50 percent female), but it has left low - income women without the support of husbands and children without fathers.

In fact, by the time they leave high school, the average child would have spent four and a half years of his or her time awake doing nothing but watching television.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

One school asked the inspectors to leave, saying that it upset and unsettled the children to have a stranger enter the (primary) classroom and demand that the children talk about something they were uncomfortable with.

I know how it feels to have your child left out of virtually every social school event.

I remember as a young child in grade school, art classes around this time of year were always focused on colorful leaves, turkeys, and giving thanks.

So I left law school and I headed out west and reconnected with my passion for cooking that I had as a child and started working in the kitchen of a natural food store in San Diego and just started experimenting in the kitchen and just getting really creative.

With one in three children now leaving primary school classed as obese (Public Health England), it's no surprise that the UK government is taking action.

The proportion of children in the UK who are very overweight at the start of primary school doubles by the time those children leave primary school.

He averaged 10.4 points a game as a sophomore, but with two children and a history of missed classes, Calhoun told him to take a leave of absence from school for the first semester to address his personal issues.

But I worry that if I leave my children to cry it out, then they will not see the point in reaching out to us if they have problems later in life and could try to deal with serious issues like bullying, drug addictions, teenage pregnancy, gambling problems, or flunking out of school on their own or turn to peers.

As her youngest child's school experience increased in difficulty, she left medicine to aid in his education.

Even though the court has me with 2 weekends a month for visitation the children live with me anytime they are not in school, sick, or she has to leave town for work.

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

We met children forced to quit school and work when the complications of HIV / AIDS left their mothers too ill to support the family.

This diverse group will leave your children feeling prepared and excited for the upcoming school year.

Be sure your school or provider has any medication (i.e. Benadryl, Epipen) and your official food allergy action plan documentation (such as this one) signed by your allergist before leaving your child alone with them.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.