Sentences with phrase «spent time in a high school»

Well, not any more — I spent some time in high school putting together a portfolio so I could go to art school, but then I discovered I could write, blah blah blah who cares.

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In high school and college, I spent a lot of time learning to be mentally strong, which can be a good thing, since resilience will wear down mountains given time.

According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

In addition to being able to spend time with my daughters before they graduate from high school and are off to college.

The average amount of time spent discussing gun control on the three major cable networks two weeks after the shooting is higher post-Parkland than it was after any other major recent shooting, including the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

And if Sis is like her friends, she will have logged l6, 000 hours of television by the time she graduates from high school — more time than she will have spent in classes from Kindergarten through l2th grade.

My favorite high school memories take place in the library: lounging by the magazines, Quiz Bowl practice, the time I spent reading The Lord of the Rings at a table in the fiction section.

Why else do they spend so much time and money on campaigns to overturn abortion laws, and fighting proper s.ex ed in high schools?

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.

You'd never believe how much time I spend with my college freshmen, unteaching them what they've been taught in high school.

It's an older picture... she's in high school now... but some of her fondest memories of her grandfather include the time he spent with her cooking and sharing his recipes.

San Clemente, Calif. (JSerra Catholic) 10/23/1995 (age 22.5) # 8 BACKGROUND: A three - star athlete recruit out of high school, Dante Pettis was a four - sport star at Junipero Serra Catholic, spending his time balancing baseball, basketball, football and track — set the Orange County record in the long - jump (24» 07»), running a personal - best 21.84 in the 200 - meters.

I've always felt that a high school coach who installs a different system every year to take advantage of his talent runs the risk of spending so much time teaching the new system that he loses ground in other areas.

The purpose of the Cascade Team Camp Corp. is to provide a fundamental camp for high school athletes to learn the game of football from their own coaching staffs and to allow teams to meld together and spend quality team time for activities in a non-contact setting.

I recommend that if you are currently spending most of your time only training in one position to talk to your club or high school coach about trying out other positions.

We spend a lot of time with high school students, and there is one thing we know for sure: they don't want the college application to take over their lives and result in non-stop strife in their families, but they just don't know how to avoid it, and, frequently, neither do their parents.

But in recent years officials have become concerned that students who spend too much time perfecting their transcripts may be missing out on some of the important but intangible social and emotional aspects of the high school experience.

Higher - income children spend more time at school and activities than they once did, and have fewer opportunities to be with friends in an unstructured setting.

«I swear the reason why my daughter is on Andrew [High School] freshman girls basketball team today is because of all the time she spent in the rec center's gym practicing,» said Suzette Dolingale of Tinley Park.

«Two days prior I spend time in the central kitchen with students from the high school — washing, chopping and bagging the products to be ready to distribute to the schools.

But what about Flanagan's main argument — or, rather, the rationale on which she rests her criticism of school gardens — that there is not «one bit of proof» that spending time in a school garden will result in kids» getting an education or a high - school diploma?

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

Caytie and Chris, now in high school and college, grew up spending lots of time at this special urban sanctuary.

This means that by the time of high school graduation, they will have spent more time watching television than they have in the -LSB-...]

Tolbert emphasized the prominence of teachers in his family history and he mentioned time he spent teaching at Bennett High School.

He has four young daughters and didn't want to miss spending time with them, especially his two oldest daughters who are now in high school.

Barron spent the day in East New York visiting polling stations and also found time to speak to the 8th grade graduates of George Gershwin Junior High School with his wife, Inez, where the two later rapped some words of wisdom to the students while the marching band played behind them.

Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York reached an all - time high of $ 20,600 per - pupil in 2013 - 14 school year, topping all states and exceeding the $ 11,009 per - pupil national average by 87 percent, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

The PM thus blew a long, masterful raspberry, one so finessed it could only have been learnt in the shadowy confines of prep at Eton targeted at the back of a gowned professor; he yah - boo - sucks - to - youed repeatedly about Ed and his pals spending too much time with the big boys in that silly red uniform with the hammers and sickles from the school next door, Unite City High — which soon became Unite City blues...

Speaking at the Inauguration of a one of the Community Day Senior High Schools at Kwaobaah Nyanoa in the Eastern Region, Mahama argued that his first four years in office was spent on improving the social infrastructure of the country which has been in dire need of a face - lift for some time now.

They intrigued her, and so, as a high school student in the 1980s, she decided to do an unusual thing for a teenager: spend more time with her dad than necessary.

He says he spent most of his time playing tennis and basketball and trying to avoid the violence and tensions in his racially charged high school.

A senior in high school, Eric spends his free time playing video games, tinkering with computers, and hanging out with his friends, just like most teenage boys.

Aifantis spent her childhood years in Greece and the United States, returning to the U.S. in time for her last 2 years of high school.

She reveals the ingredients and why she spent time at JPL while in high school.

I graduated from High School at ninety eight pounds (scary isn't it) and after spending some serious time in the gym working with my college football team I added eighty five pounds to my frame by the time I graduated four years later.

In response, I would first offer the argument, who do you think knows more about the small intestine and colon — a surgeon, who regularly operates on said organs, or some hippy who spent more time in high school biology class hitting the bong than paying attention to the materiaIn response, I would first offer the argument, who do you think knows more about the small intestine and colon — a surgeon, who regularly operates on said organs, or some hippy who spent more time in high school biology class hitting the bong than paying attention to the materiain high school biology class hitting the bong than paying attention to the material?

I spend most of my time in school trying to maintain a high enough GPA to get ready for my future so I don't have a bunch of time.I enjoy doing a bunch of different things anything from...

I was an all - state football player in high school, so I spend a lot of my time in the gym.

What is clear is that for many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning — one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with Tyler Barney, a high school student in Mt Juliet, said he made the discovery that decreased performance has to do with phones lithium - ion batteries when

After finishing high school, Desmond spent six weeks in college before realizing that he needed some time off from academia.

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

In The Amazing Spider - Man ™ 2, for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy — between taking out the bad guys as Spider - Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can't come quickly enough.

The movie, co-written and directed by Bottle Rocket's Wes Anderson, is meant to be an offbeat comedy / drama about an unusual high school student who underachieves in classes because he spends all of his time on extracurricular activities.

Lots of kids in their last year of high school have questions about the future, but Greg Gains (Thomas Mann) is particularly perplexed after spending time with a classmate (Olivia Cooke) who has been diagnosed with cancer.

From the Studio: In ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL, Thomas Mann plays Greg Gaines, an awkward high school senior whose mom forces him to spend time with Rachel - a girl in his class (Olivia Cooke) whom he hasn't spoken to since kindergarten - who was just diagnosed with canceIn ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL, Thomas Mann plays Greg Gaines, an awkward high school senior whose mom forces him to spend time with Rachel - a girl in his class (Olivia Cooke) whom he hasn't spoken to since kindergarten - who was just diagnosed with cancein his class (Olivia Cooke) whom he hasn't spoken to since kindergarten - who was just diagnosed with cancer.

About what share of instructional time in high school do you think students should spend receiving instruction independently through or on a computer?

Each summer, I spend time thinking about what I can improve upon for the fall in teaching American History to high school juniors.

For example the research revealed that second graders in RF schools actually spent less time reading than peers in schools without RF funding, for the sake of what was described as «high quality» instruction.

Even though elementary schools are the most universally attended educational institutions — between prekindergarten and 8th grade, a child attends school for more than 9,000 hours, more than twice the time spent in high school — the attention to, and regard for, elementary education is inversely proportionate.