Sentences with phrase «seventh grade kids»

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There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money twice.

A white kid would first encounter that concept in standard five (seventh grade).

If you like, you can also apparently customize the outside of the box with replaceable magnetic designs, so that if your kid wants pictures of soccer balls in second grade but a cool modern design in seventh grade, the lunch box doesn't have to be replaced.

We are different; every kid in seventh grade made damn sure I knew how different.

I think that kids get turned off to science at some point — fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade — when science is perceived as too hard and too complicated.

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

Our seventh - grade students have the incredible opportunity to work with a team of medical professionals from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in response to the provocation, «How might we make the hospital experience less scary for kids?»

«In our district, kids learned about U.S. history from the colonial era to the Civil War in sixth grade and Reconstruction to the present in seventh grade,» he says.

Tracking typically starts in seventh or eighth grade, placing kids in courses that match the hierarchy of the math curriculum.

As Eva Moskowitz puts it: «If (we) backfilled older grades... the incoming students» lower relative academic preparation would adversely affect the schools» other students... We have an obligation to the parents in middle and high school, and the kids in middle and high school, that until the district schools are able to do a better job, it's not really fair for the seventh - grader or high school student to have to be educated with a child who's reading at a second - or third - grade level.»

«I don't want my kids to have a long line of subs,» said Rhone, who has three children in Meridian's public schools ---- one in second - grade, one in seventh and one in twelfth.

For example, Keith Lance reports in the 2000 Colorado study, How School Librarians Help Kids Achieve Standards: «Schools with well - developed library media programs average 10 % to 15 % higher on fourth grade reading scores and 18 % higher on seventh grade reading scores than schools where libraries are less developed.

But by seventh grade, he was smoking and doing graffiti to impress kids and shed his reputation as the «dumb» older kid.

New study finds that if you are a seventh grader lagging your peers in math, you were also the kid in first grade who had the least number sense or fluency.

While the program is geared for kids in sixth, seventh and eighth grades, it allows some families to send the students» younger brothers and sisters to attend as well.

For a kid trapped in seventh grade, life's problems can really seem interminable.

One of those kids who voluntarily wore a three - piece suit to school in the seventh grade, and learned how to manage a stock portfolio in his spare time instead of playing video games and eating dirt like the rest of the kids?

Overall, it was the typical junior high experience, one I relive frequently as a middle school counselor and as the parent of kids in seventh and eighth grade.