Sentences with phrase «students vowed»

The old wreck is huge and one dive is never enough, and all students vowed that they would all come back and dive again on the wreck.

Whether the initiation ritual revolves around doing silly things like dressing up in weird clothes during school or singing amusing songs at a school assembly, the activity should not be one that creates such anger and humiliation that the young student vow to get revenge.

All students vow to abstain from sex outside marriage, whatever their sexual orientation.

The likely answer, «I just am,» should reveal that sexual orientation is not a conscious decision that can be the subject of a student vow.

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After a gunman with an AR - 15 rifle slaughtered 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, survivors of the massacre vowed #NeverAgain.

She is among the student leaders who have started the #NeverAgain movement, vowing to force lawmakers to finally act against gun violence.

The passage into office was marked by a series of oaths in which students made vows to uphold the integrity of their charges and the duties that flowed from those vows.

$ 18 When seminary student Philip Holck got married, he exchanged two sets of vows: the first with his bride, the second with her five - year - old son.

It was expected that the students leave the world and take the vows of chastity as long as they are enrolled in the school.

Once a student told me that her pastor had included among confirmation vows the pledge that she and her classmates would never in their lives, under any circumstance, entertain a theory of evolution.

On the Day of Silence, students take a «a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name - calling, bullying and harassment in their schools,» according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

The NYC Council vowed to investigate a troubled Bronx middle school after The NY Post exposed alleged student violence, filthy conditions and even a coverup — while the de Blasio administration bizarrely chose to trumpet the school's dismal test results.

The City Council vowed on Sunday to investigate a troubled Bronx middle school after The Post exposed alleged student violence, filthy conditions and even a coverup — while the de Blasio administration bizarrely chose to trumpet the school's dismal test results.

De Blasio and Murphy vowed to work together to rally against the GOP's massive federal tax overhaul that calls for the elimination of popular tax deductions — such as state and local property tax costs and student loan interest payments — which they argue will hurt middle - class taxpayers.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, standing shoulder to shoulder in Albany with thousands of parents and students who rallied in support of charter schools, vowed on Tuesday to defend the movement and offered a sharply different vision for their place in the educational system than Mayor Bill de Blasio's.

The move came after a raucous joint hearing at Wadleigh on 114th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, held by Community Education Council 3 and the DOE, where politicians, parents, teachers, students and clergy vowed to take whatever steps were necessary to keep the school open.

State Senator Tim Kennedy reads a proclamation honoring students at West Seneca West High School for their «chain of life» pledge, in which they vow not to drink and drive or text while driving.

The City Council vowed on Sunday to investigate a troubled Bronx middle school after The Post exposed alleged student violence, filthy conditions and even a coverup — while the de...

This damning statistic from last week's New School study on school choice exposes the absurdity of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the system.

The school, where nearly all students are poor enough to qualify for free lunches and nearly all are black or Latino, has earned an A-rating under the Bloomberg administration's high - stakes school report cards — a system Mayor de Blasio has vowed to scrap.

The chancellor said it was important to have an «equity lens» to serve disadvantaged students and vowed «we're going to have resources» to serve them when they're integrated in schools with higher - performing students.

They have vowed not to teach the students until something is done about the security situation indicating that they have constantly been attacked by residents for reasons unknown.

Before coming to the USA in 1971 at the request of several young students, he completed the traditional vows of a Vairagi Vaishnava (qualified non-dualism).

He adopted stern mannerisms to ward off the advances of students (and to keep his vow of brahmacharya, or sexual continence).

The experience was so jarring that I vowed never to put a student in that situation.

I have hung up my freelance hat and taken a full time job as a designer and this is the year I vow to put a dent in my student loans and start to save to buy a house.

Breathe In (R for profanity) Home - wrecker drama about a beautiful, British exchange student (Felicity Jones) whose arrival in the States proves problematic when she brings the head (Guy Pearce) of her host family to the brink of breaking his marriage vows.

When his mother (Jessica Lange) eventually caves in and gives him the $ 260,000 to clear his debt, vowing that it'll be the last time she bails him out, Jim blows it at the casino instead, putting him in a precarious position when Neville threatens the lives of his two students.

Sadly, my vow to never sit through another Farrelly Brothers yak - track remains unbroken, as it takes all of three minutes for their conversation to devolve into arcane trainspotting here: that's when they start furnishing the child actors playing Fallon's students with gratuitous biographies.

Please know, I'm a big believer in music associated with learning, so my classroom hasn't been a place where students go when they want to take a vow of silence, but it was mainly music that's filled the air.

I vowed to treat my students as I would want my own children treated.

Iowa legislators, who say they are now paying out $ 95 million a year in state funds for some 39,000 nonexistent students, have vowed to change the state's school - finance formula this year.

Deeply repentant of this history, we vow not to let our students to kill and to be killed ever again.

It's a task to get other students to take a vow not to swear, but it is very possible.»

The CTA vowed to appeal because the decision to «strip teachers of their professional rights hurts our students and our schools.»

President Barack Obama has vowed to bring 100 mbps - or - better connections to schools serving 99 percent of U.S. students by 2018.

In 2013, President Barack Obama vowed to bring high - speed Internet to schools serving 99 percent of U.S. students.

Defenders of the existing approach of teaching foreign - language - speaking students in their own tongues while developing their English skills vowed yesterday to fight the initiative campaign.

She vowed to do all she could to connect the dots and close the cracks the most challenged students fell through.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, standing shoulder to shoulder in Albany with thousands of parents and students who rallied in support of charter schools, vowed on Tuesday to defend the movement and offered a sharply different vision for their place in the educational system than Mayor Bill de Blasio's.

Ward joined other students and parents who vowed to hold Richmond Public School officials accountable for correcting the situation.

In recent weeks, the boards of California's Los Angeles Unified and Santa Cruz city schools passed resolutions vowing to resist any requests for student information from federal immigration officials.

DeVos and President Donald Trump have vowed to expand so - called school choice options for students, explicitly naming magnet schools as one of those options.

The schools have halted most elements of the programs, but have vowed to replace it with another program that incentivizes student performance.

At the same time, the board vowed to intensify efforts toward improving educational opportunities within traditional district schools as a way to discourage more students from moving into charters.

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Edwards vows to «shrink high schools, build new ones and break up bigger ones so that adults know their students.»

President Barack Obama met Monday with the superintendents from several large school districts and vowed to support their efforts to gain more funding for poor students.

Outgoing NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said his members were «understandably frustrated» with Duncan and vowed to keep pushing the department to develop «student - centered» policies «that are influenced by those who know best — educators working in our classrooms and in our schools — rather than profiteers.»

Reforms were on fast track Indeed in Minnesota, where a stalemate between Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the state's largest teachers union resulted in no K - 12 omnibus bill whatsoever last year, even the labor - loving DFL went into this year's legislative session vowing to fast - track such education reforms as alternative paths to teacher licensure, modifications to teacher tenure and tying teacher compensation to student performance.