Sentences with phrase «suburban kid»

So unless you're Mark Zuckerberg or some transplanted suburban kid that spawned from a rich family, the only way it doesn't pay to have a four - year degree is to have a career in one of the following highest paying jobs available for non-college grads: Pastry Chef.

At first, New York was a little overwhelming because I was a suburban kid.

He comes off as a modern suburban kid.

It was pretty mind blowing for a suburban kid like me — so mind blowing that it shifted my life's focus to outdoor leadership.

The Equinox's long wheelbase — which contributes to its riverboat - like turning diameter approaching 43 feet with the 19 - inch wheels — and its smallish cargo area point to a greater emphasis on passenger space, making the Equinox more suited for the suburban kid haul.

We begin as Mark (Ben Schnetzer), a confident Northern Irish social activist, and Joe (rising star George MacKay), a shy, closeted suburban kid, head to the gay pride march in London.

He is «a suburban kid with good parents,» he complains, so what can he possibly write about?

This affecting film about a superintelligent suburban kid and his loving family goes totally bonkers midway through when it morphs into a bizarre revenge scheme guided from beyond the grave.

Its kind of like when you see a 12 year old suburban kid playing the blues.

Morpheus turns out to be Laurence Fishburne in little round sunglasses, playing precisely the urbane black hipster every bored white suburban kid dreams of meeting — the guy who'll turn you on to some opiated hashish, blast you with the tenor solo from «Chasin'the Trane» and lay a heavy Zen koan on you, all in the same afternoon.

After a few licks on the subway their immune systems are made of steel that no suburban kid could even dream of.

I had always wanted to be a farmer but growing up as a suburban kid, farming was all romance, all Little House on the Prairie.

Again, you've heard that exact sentiment (give or take the «suburban kid» part) expressed by countless NBA fans before.

This young man at 16 was arrested — for something any suburban kid could have gotten away with — and held at Rikers Island for three years, mostly in inhumane solitary confinement.

The Backstory: «I didn't grow up with computers any more than your average suburban kid,» says Culver, 25.

Or think of the visual impact, on the Sunday when the story of adolescent Jesus in the temple is read, of projecting slides of the great masters» paintings of young Jesus alongside contemporary photos of city and suburban kids of every color.

Mass murder has gotten a media makeover for naive suburban kids like you to gawk at.

I'd read Yvonne Thornton's Ditchdigger's Daughters, and if that dad in a crime - ridden neighborhood could produce highly educated children by forcing them to practice music, then surely music lessons could help my suburban kids stay out of trouble.

«Before Paterno they couldn't get city kids and suburban kids to come here.

Claypool said he doesn't want parents like Dwyer shut out of limited programs that fill up in part with suburban kids.

For years Canada attempted to work with public schools in Harlem, attempting to provide the children with the education suburban kids are given on a daily basis.

Based on true facts, a gang of suburban kids is sport - killing home-less people just for fun in the streets of Chicago.

The problem, Lenz says, was that he «kept hearing how project - based learning was nice for wealthy, suburban kids, but, «kids in urban settings aren't going to be able to do this kind of work.

Do you think they face different challenges than suburban kids do?

Thirty - three percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch (which essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves).

I'm not talking about the trite, somewhat dangerous brand of expectation inherent in statements like: «I want to create the kind of schools that suburban kids go to.»

Yes, the rules have to be the same... but Jeff, why play the same game when the game the suburban kids are playing really isn't that great.

It's proof, reformers say, that low - income, minority children can perform just as well as white, affluent, suburban kids.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

Minneapolis has an inter-district magnet school program but has yet to aggressively recruit suburban kids into the city.

Thirty - four percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch, according to the U.S. Department of Education; this essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves.

It's not quite Bentley serene since some suspension noise is telegraphed through the rear chassis, but for a quarter the price Kia has crafted a beautiful rear cabin, even if it's just some lucky suburban kids (or grandparents being picked up at the airport) who get to enjoy it.

The Food Project brings urban and suburban kids together to work the fields, grow produce and sell it through farmers» markets and CSAs.

Not exact matches

The reality is that while DDT was banned for agriculture in the US - and spraying on kids in suburban neighbourhoods - it was never banned for anti-malarial use.

Lyne: A suburban life was very comfortable, lots of great clubs around, lots of good schools for kids, but for somebody who grew up thinking, «I want to do something, I want to have an impact on the world,» it was not necessarily the place you could do that.

But in Toronto, particularly in the suburban areas, shift workers will finish at three, pick up their kids, and the first thing they do is go and eat.

There's the time Kid Rock got in a fistfight in suburban Atlanta.

When suburban white moms are as fearful and afraid of their kids coming home as urban moms are, they change Congress.

But now, the average mindfulness practitioner is a suburban soccer mom who meditates in order to increase her work efficiency, deal with her kids» needs, watch what she eats and keep her sanity,

I know a suburban mom who, for every biological kid she and her husband send to college, they've create a trust fund — kind of like another scholarship — for a kid that's not biologically theirs, but is financially hard - pressed.

He was witty and brilliant and paradigm - crashing in class, and it was kind of weird to see him with his wife and kids on Sunday like any normal suburban family.

There's the time Kid Rock got in a fistfight in suburban Atlanta.

I grew up in one of those half - rural half - suburban towns where everyone in the neighborhood is friendly and you may have a pack of at least five neighborhood kids descend upon your house at any given moment.

Mostly he hangs out in Chino Hills — a development so thoroughly suburban it could be from the Nick at Nite lineup — and trades Nintendo games with the neighborhood kids.

Little Mike knew early on that he didn't want to be another suburban rich kid with a pretty jumper but no heart, and he did all that he could to make sure of that.

He got into coaching to help kids, and left jobs at more affluent suburban schools to so that he could be work to be a positive force in the lives of students and athletes at Richmond High.

With an indoor obstacle course and basketball court for the older set and art studio and crawlers corner for the babies, Little Beans Evanston provides hours of delight for suburban moms meeting friends for playdates with kids of all ages.

We have also noticed that the area in general is much more kid - friendly than our previous urban environment (we're more suburban now, but close to urban areas).

Since most of us with kids live in the «burbs and don't always have time to trek into Boston for a night out, I wanted to share ideas for some great suburban spots for your next date night.

Oak Brook Park District: The Family Aquatic Center, operated by this west suburban park district, features a zero - depth entrance and 105 - foot - long spiral waterslide for the kids and swim teams for teens.