Sentences with phrase «students were girls»

Now, half of the students are girls, he says, and their average grades have increased significantly, too.

The second student is a girl who came to our school as a street-wise individual, rejected by her mother and raised by her grandmother.

Not exact matches

The College Board is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to promote the new program in communities where students may not have home computers.

«As a student on a university budget, it's really difficult to find mature enough clothes — that aren't, like, teenage girl clothes — at an affordable price,» she says.

High school students could then access all the information for free and come away with a pretty good idea of, say, the academics, the cafeteria, or how hot (or not) the girls and guys were.

There were students who intentionally left their chargers at home so their phones would die on them during the day, a girl who mainly went to church to escape her phone, and students who reported they enlisted friends to literally hide their devices from them.

Leilani and Amanda were the only two Kode With Karlie scholars in their class of 10 students, which was roughly an even mix of girls and boys.

After the shooting on Wednesday, Mr. Gard said that several students told him that Mr. Cruz was taken with a girl at Stoneman Douglas High School «to the point of stalking her.»

In one call that lasted more than 16 minutes, an operator talked to a girl who was helping a student who had been shot in the head.

«I don't even want to be behind a gun,» one girl told a student journalist during the attack, according to The Washington Post.

While I was a student there, a young girl named Reena Virk was beaten to death by her classmates.

, and drawing cartoons in notebooks, and teasing and gawking at girls, might be insulting to Mister Bossy, might be a sort of theft of his time and energy, might be a sort of theft of immeasurably valuable holy unrecoverable time from the other students in the class, might be greedy and low and a theft from our own best selves, little though we knew of those selves as yet.

Sarah is a Women's Studies student at Oakland University, an intern at Alternatives for Girls in Detroit, and a master burger - flipper.

Several students began to weep, but another, a small girl, made her way to the front and in her child like way wrote what words of FAITH in a loving GOD believes to be the only answer, «Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.»

He was suspended and placed in isolation in November for telling students «well done girls» while one of them wanted to be identified as a boy.

My personal guess is that the student wrote something protesting islam's acceptence of marrying off 10 year old girls, provided they are «ripe» enough of course.

The students, particularly girls, said they were too suspicious or embarrassed to talk to school nurses about sex or ask about condoms.

It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!

My hopes for the church interacting in schools would be more along the lines of policy (getting teenage girls to cover up), offering some after - school programs (food, clothing, study help, activities), allowing for prayer in schools, Bible reading time, allowing religion to be discussed among the students.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

From Steve Walker's The Power of Tolkien's Prose, three of his students» «Top 10 justifications for not being married from TLOTR»: (10) It's the Arwen worry: the girl who married me might die.

It was universally irreverent, and for the traditional girl and good student that I was, the day's reading was like an interlude with the court jester.

I am angry because I believe that if they were 200 students from Ontario or Ohio, the world would have turned itself inside out until they were found but because our girls are in Nigeria, they are just another story, another «what a shame» story.

One student, a girl named Ireland who got pregnant as a freshman, said «They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally.»

Yes, there was a time when college students did not wear knapsacks or drape bags over their shoulders, when female students could be called «girls,» and when many of them did seem to hold their books in that odd manner.

Eventually, the little girl grew up to be a college student who, while still being a picky eater, loved to eat.

He says girls will always be around, but the opportunity to be a star player and student will not.

Long is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia and St. Anne's Belfield School to give two seven - year scholarships to middle school students in the state.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Wearing thin gray sweats and a white COSS ATHLETICS tee, Coss talks quietly, heavily, with some of the dozen students, most of them white and wearing nice workout clothes, the 20 - something girls wearing their hair and makeup just right, and their outfits mixed and matched into perfect neon ensembles, ready for this cool new workout they've been hearing about.

These girls are supposedly student - assistants to USC's equipment manager and they posted these images to Instagram.

We previously were part of FAB 50 rankings in girls volleyball that appeared on ESPN's now - defunct high school site from 2008 to 2012 and then in 2013 those rankings appeared on Student Sports.

Another reason is that the FAB 50 national rankings for girls volleyball that we've done for other media organizations over the years, including ESPN, Student Sports and Rivals.com, is going to be ramped back up for FloVolleyball.com.

All i know is there is the chemistry - student looking Modafferi with glasses and the other girl with 100 kg of make up with a surname that sounded lke ostrich.

When I met Reed, she was working with a 17 - year - old girl named Keitha Jones, whose childhood had been extremely difficult and painful and who expressed her frustration and anger by starting a fistfight, nearly every morning, with the first student at her high school who looked at her the wrong way.

Fearing that two girls voted «cutest couple» would be denied the honor because of their sexual orientation, about 60 students at Crete - Monee High School walked out of class Tuesday in a show of support.

I've had a student who lost her mother in a car crash when she was 3, I met her the day after the accident and she still was a very cheerful little girl, she played, smiled and all but that didn't mean she wasn't hurt!

The program, a monthlong discussion in 9th - grade girls» health classes, is primarily about telling students that a natural, healthful alternative to manufactured baby formulas exists and is becoming the preferred option for American families.

All High School students are welcome, boys and girls.

anyways here it goes; The Story: I was a 25 year old college student when i starting dating the girl that would be my girlfriend for the next 5 years — she was a 24 year old japanese college student in San Francisco on a student visa.

While bullying has a long and sordid history in American classrooms, a November 7, 2016 article in The Nation asserts that the current surge is notable in two respects, both for the similarity of its targets - Muslim students, immigrants and children of immigrants, children of color, girls, and Jews - and the language used against them, leading some educators to suggest a link to Donald Trump and the «degraded course of this election season.»

According to a story published on the website, OnlyNews.com, the weekend after the election, a girl's volleyball team from Archer City, TX (about 2 hours north of Dallas) was playing against a team from Fort Hancock ISD in Snyder, TX (a town on the Texas / Mexico border which happens to be 97 percent Hispanic) when students from Archer City starting chanting «Build a Wall!»

This is why they do it — smiling face of hungry students, like this girl in Bradley County Schools, Cleveland, Tennessee.

Even the intervention for students with emotional problems tends to be face - to - face counseling, which is probably fine for most girls.

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

She owns up to her mistakes (promoting a book as a memoir when it was fiction), acts silly (a cross-country road trip with her best friend Gayle), cries when her dog dies or she hears a heartbreaking story, gets behind causes she believes in (a girls school in South Africa), and acts like a student and not just a teacher (organizing a 10 - week online class to discuss Eckhart Tolle's book, «A New Earth.»)

My girls have already been voted students of the month in their respective classes several times since Kindergarten.

When Dan came home one day to tell me about a story of a young girl in her class who was a scholarship student in his class, a Kenyon, who was desperately ill and needed a heart operation.

Both girls were students in a creative - writing course he taught.

It can be difficult to spot a mean girl, as they are experts at bullying under the radar of teachers, other students, and other adults.