Sentences with phrase «school social ladder»

Alex Wolff is sharp as Derf, an artistic nerd who sits a rung above Jeff on the high school social ladder.

So Rusty decides to take a risk, defy the high school social ladder, and win over the girl of his dreams, Kate (Liana Liberato).

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Long - term studies show once children get labeled in a group, clique or ladder on the social rung, that status tends to stick all the way through the high school years, Elias said.

Borough of Opportunity: Tackling poverty and the widening social divide by giving a «hand up» instead of a «hand out» by transforming our state schools, providing a housing ladder of opportunity with home ownership at its core and regenerating our most deprived areas by using the public sector to pump prime major investment by the private sector.

For most of these parents, says Kim, the expectation is that their children will excel in school — «the only perceived way to climb that social ladder.»