Sentences with phrase «school misses the point»

«So many schools miss the point,» Bolinger concluded.

Also, talking about this as school helping school misses the point.

Not exact matches

But to assume prices will keep rising as a result misses an important point, says Josh Gordon, assistant professor at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

The individual described in this article that attended Catholic school and Mass on a regular basis, but somehow was not «exposed» to Jesus Christ, clearly missed the entire focal point of the Catholic service.

(as in the school of the prophets in the old testament) This author is missing the entire point of the scripture, and it's not a bunch of rules of can and can't do.

But just as many more have served as models or examples; quick, now, if you attended Sunday school, think back, and some of those teachers will come to mind, Not all imported curricular materials missed the point.

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.

Those who simply look at high school mountain biking as a race series are completely missing the point.

At some point as a parent, you will likely be faced with the dreaded email from your child's teacher telling you that your kid has crossed the line and that you need to come in for another conference — or the principal will call to tell you that your teen has missed the last week of school... Read more»

I want to mention that the second «key idea»: < >... misses bw1's point entirely: < > It's that your notion of «some parents no longer want [ing] their kids eating a cupcake at school every time a classmate has a birthday» is not novel; there have always been parents not wanting that and they've always had to deal with it.

In the latest effort to entirely miss the point about gun safety, children who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now must wear clear backpacks.

So in the coming days, I'll do my best to answer this reader's question and then each of these school food experts will also chime in, pointing out ideas I've missed, directing her to other resources, or whatever else they want to share.

At some point as a parent, you will likely be faced with the dreaded email from your child's teacher telling you that your kid has crossed the line and that you need to come in for another conference - or the principal will call to tell you that your teen has missed the last week of school altogether, unbeknownst to you.

I think too many people miss the bigger point about birthday treats in school.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

I think Smith was going for suspense, because the fate of the high school kids is up in the air at that point, but he misses the mark here.

A man travels with his boss to an evicted man's house where they find him holding his wife and two grade - school sons hostage; sheriff's deputies point handguns toward the house as the homeowner breaks out the picture window from inside with a rifle, glass shattering loudly as sirens sound outside, the homeowner argues with the officers, accidentally shoots into a wall, missing one of his young sons, drops his rifle after a man tells him that he cheated to get the man evicted, exits the house and is arrested and handcuffed after being forced to the ground.

And perhaps that's where I'm missing the point: Maybe Eastwood intended to bore us with the drivel of middle school antics and traipsing around Europe so that when the pivotal incident arrived we would clearly see that within all «ordinary» people is the potential to rise to exceptional circumstances.

In film school, I directed a couple of shorts — nothing you've seen, but that's beside the point: American Movie reminded me of why I hate making movies and why I miss it all the same.

Some people are ready to dismiss «By the Sea» as an old - school vanity project, but I think that's missing the point.

I cringed at your turn in Zoolander, shrugged off your appearance in Old School, and was apparently one of the few people on the planet who missed the point of Elf.

But the underlying issues that lead D.C. and so many school districts to this point are far more intractable: students arriving at high school without the skills they need and missing so much school they never catch up.

• A review of a book by Richard Kahlenberg and Halley Potter, «Criticizing Charter Schools for Lacking Diversity and Unions Misses the Point, by Nelson Smith.

This is a separate debate to which others have made very useful contributions on this site useful contributions on this site; but suffice to say becoming too bogged down in the detail of content misses the much bigger point about how we best prepare our young people for life after school.

But these largely miss the point — the benefits of private school choice are clearly evident in long term outcomes, not near - term test scores.

We use online course work for students who miss school to the point of no longer being able to pass the regular class.

That was a response to Nelson's Smith's «Criticizing Charter Schools for Lacking Diversity and Unions Misses the Point,» a review of Kahlenberg and Potter's new book, A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education.

Case in point: in the past few years, when new games of any import (according to the students) were released, many of them missed school because they attended the midnight release of the game (e.g. Skyrim, Assassin's Creed III, Black Ops and so on).1

«From the beginning, the solutions that were proposed by the petitioners missed the point about what it takes to stabilize struggling inner - city schools,» Fletcher said.

In particular, Dan seems to miss the point on school choice.

Trouble is, when it comes to the lessons that Finnish schools have to offer, most of the discussion seems to be missing the point.

Debating whether kids need hands - on training or academic rigor misses the point; two schools embrace the idea that to thrive, students need both

As more schools like Rocketship build hybrid and blended systems, however, and as more entrepreneurs develop the missing - piece systems, the tipping point may be reached, fueling rapid growth of this new approach to schooling.

Oh dear still missing the point that 30 % of UK population functionally and digitally illiterate with 2m in school leaving joining them as NEET's every year and / or equally predictably if, they have escaped captivity after year 8 / 9 realising they stood a cat in heals chance of making the Holy Grail of 5 or anything above grade «C» to join the ranks of alternatively educated offenders instead.

A growing consensus of research points to chronic absence — defined by the national policy group Attendance Counts as missing 10 percent of school or more — as one of the strongest and most often overlooked indicators of a student's risk of becoming disengaged, failing courses, and eventually dropping out of school.

From this vantage point, Jones contends, they can see the general features of the landscape, but are missing subtle details that deeply affect what happens in our schools and classrooms every day.

But Mr Dawe, speaking to Schools Week after an OCR policy event today, hit back by accusing the DfE of «missing the point».

Those who propose that schools need to change are missing the point.

While the state recognizes that it has no realistic way to assess AYP for the mandates under NCLB (which I agree are impossible to attain — no school reaches 100 % profiency), it apparently seems to miss the point that the same standardized tests — or lack / change thereof — are supposed to be used to measure student achievement under the SPSA and the achievement gaps under LCFF.

He describes the work of school reformers who wish to use business solutions or technology to fix the problems of education as missing the point.

All of which continues to miss the point: The real issue, especially when it comes to children living in poverty, is whether all students have access to good schools regardless of whether they are charters, District schools, parochial, or private schools.

The Screening to Intervention Report helps identify what foundational skills are missing or weak and may need to be retaught or practiced and the level of support needed, guides teachers towards the appropriate instructional strategy to address each student's unique needs, and points towards the appropriate intervention (s) that are available within the school or district.

The so - called reformers also miss another point surrounding the issue of standardized test scores; they use them to measure school success.

The study points out that 87,000 elementary school children, from kindergarteners to fifth - graders, missed more than 10 percent of the 2012 - 13 school year.

National averages on the 4th and 8th grade mathematics and reading tests were between 12 and 18 test - score points lower for students with poor attendance than for their peers who hadn't missed any school in the reporting period, the analysis found.

The governor's proposal is the starting point for discussions by the Legislature, including how elected officials will address missing components they campaigned on including funding for roads and expansion of the tax - funded private school voucher program.

The sustained commitment to forcing good and outstanding schools to become academies against their wishes, in areas where there is underperformance in other schools, demonstrates that the government has again missed the point.

The report points to research that shows elementary school students who routinely miss class are more likely to drop out of school eventually.

School's and district's overall scores are docked five points each for missing goals related to chronic absenteeism.

Author Elissa Nadworny notes, «The latest national numbers suggest that more than 6 million students are «chronically absent,»» and emphasizes comments made by Phyllis Jordan, who authored a recent FutureEd report on the subject, that, «Research tells us that kids shouldn't miss 10 percent or more of the school year, that's the tipping point for kids, but there isn't really research that tells us how many chronically absent kids are too many for a school.»