Sentences with phrase «take high school kids»

Combined with the 11yo starting high school this year and having to organise after school activities because the local after school care doesn't take high school kids, it was a nightmare but a friend of mine said that the new routine and will soon become normal and a bit of extra travel time is better in the long run if the outcome is better overall for the kids.

So, take high school kids in Tokyo that band together to rid an entire city that is infested with ghosts and who you gonna call?

Not exact matches

If You Give Your Kids This Popular Toy, 1 out of 3 High Schools Are Taking it Away, According to a Stunning New Report

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

Just because I granted a license to Facebook, doesn't mean that I granted it to some kid I knew in high school to take my photo and put it on a thousand T - shirts,» he added.

I can remember having the Chinese kids in my high school take Chinese new year off, and that was back in the 80s.

High school kids need to realize that employers do take into consideration where you went to college.

, who accuses Hogg of being a «high school bully» before determining that «what we are seeing is that no, high school kids are not people we should take seriously on any subject.»

Take Erick Erickson, who accuses Hogg of being a «high school bully» before determining that «what we are seeing is that no, high school kids are not people we should take seriously on any subject.&raTake Erick Erickson, who accuses Hogg of being a «high school bully» before determining that «what we are seeing is that no, high school kids are not people we should take seriously on any subject.&ratake seriously on any subject.»

It seems that a school called Messmer High could and would take a fair number of poor Milwaukee kids in the «choice» program if allowed to participate.

But anyone who reads it as some proclamation that all regulation should fall away should take a trip to their high school english class and let the kids there teach you something...

You take the BART train to 24th Street and make your way past the homeless and the loitering high school kids to get to El Farolito.

He takes a regular curriculum (according to Doherty seven kids on the team have a 3.8 G.P.A. or higher) and attends normal school functions.

«I've always said if he couldn't make it the NFL, he could take up wrestling and be the best kid in the U.S.A.,» says Hutsell, who has mentored 38 high school state champions and calls Tomlinson «the most athletic kid I ever coached.»

«One of my buddies from high school who I do this stuff with just had a kid,» Long says, taking his phone back.

I don't know how long we'll go — if my kids will go to high school or if we'll school all the way — I plan on taking it year by year.

Pressure to play needs to be taken off kids in order for them to feel comfortable reporting their signs and symptoms of a possible concussion,» says Tamara Valovich McLeod,, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Professor in the Athletic Training Program and Directors of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory and Athletic Training Practice - Based Research Network in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, co-author of the attitude study, and lead author of an earlier study [3] on attitudes on concussions among high school students.

For my 12th grader it is all about the administration getting the school on the Newsweek top 1000 school list by making sure the high school kids are taking the max number of AP classes and if they aren't, trying to make them feel guilty for not doing so by telling them they will never get into the college of their choice with «a schedule like that!»

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

The Tribune paid a final lunchroom visit Wednesday to Von Steuben High School, where dozens of kids took foam trays loaded with nachos, fries, chocolate milk and canned fruit.

In doing so, Boston is taking advantage of the «community eligibility option» in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, which allows schools with relatively high populations of socioeconomically disadvantaged students (40 % or more) to do away with individual paperwork filings and simply provide free meals to all.

You are saying take mcd's out of the lunchroom because its not healthy that may be the only meal some kids get to eat everyday and not everything on the menu is unhealthy I just bought a bunch of mickey D's gift cards and gave them to school kids that only get 1 meal a day and your probably thinking why didn't I get gift cards to somewhere more» nutritional» mcd's is right next door to school so get off your high horse people and maybe put up a petition to stop childhood hunger if you saw a child that did not eat that day and the only option was mcd's would you say «NO» to that kid you can't eat mcd's because its not nutritional COME ON PEOPLE GET REAL

«You want kids taking advanced classes,» said Jim Sanders, spokesman for Natomas Unified School District, which includes Natomas and Inderkum high schools.

I mean, I babysat my way through high school to earn spending money and I took care of kids in my profession as a nurse in a big city hospital.

My kids «must» take breakfast at school (that's the new dictate from on high) so I now have to police them at the breakfast table at home so they are not pigging out during the first 3 hours of each weekday.

«If you look at it, taking a kid who's a senior in high school, and changing his eating habits in one year — there's going to be resistance there.

A record number of city high - school juniors took the SAT exam last year — with black and Hispanic kids posting the biggest percentage - point gains, according to the NYC Department of Education.

Say what you want about «redeeming» the holiday for our Christian youths, the fact of the matter is that when you're a Christian kid in a secular high school and all your peers are getting Valentines and «getting laid,» Christianity and the «redemptive» nature of Valentine's Day tends to take a back seat.

Sputnik was launched in October, 1957; a year later, I became a «Sputnik Kid» who was brought daily to the high school in the early morning, where I took a special algebra class, before spending the rest of the day at my middle school.

Let's take it closer to home... how about the mean girl in high school, the bully who picked on the weak kids, the vindictive businessman?

They have a huge Fall Festival that takes place (great for a fun day with your kids) and a Field of Fear where you can get spooked while partaking in their various attractions (great for the high school crowd I'm sure).

MINNEAPOLIS — A sex education teacher has drawn the ire of parents after taking middle school and high school students on a field trip to an adult novelty... Education and parenting articles offer expert tips and information on raising kids.

The film takes us inside the Asian community, showing us a group of smart Asian high school kids who know the drill of grades = college = success, but are bored and not challenged by our current sad state of education.

In the second, an aspiring documentary filmmaker (Paul Giamatti) takes a look at a well - off suburban family and the high school the kids attend.

The teens I know accepted the combat as a given, while their elders, bewildered, and looking for a little meaning, interpreted the story as a representation of how kids felt about the competitive traumas of high school; or as a metaphor for capitalism, with its terrifying job market and winner - take - all ethos; or, more simply, as a satiric exaggeration of talent - show ruthlessness.

Director Babak Najafi's one set piece really meant to wow — a single - take shoot out in a London alley — has the feel of a video game recreated by high school kids on a gym auditorium set made of paper mache.

Here they meet the super-popular gang — Greg, as ex - high - school jock and all - round cool kid, takes control of the situation, showing Morton the keys to maintaining status.

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It's the kind of place where a drifter (Christopher Abbott) might stay, a high school kid (Odessa Young) might take a part - time job, a new widow (Rosemary DeWitt) might find comfort or a femme fatale (Imogen Poots) might find danger.

It's a perfect entry into this variation on the Marvel house style, capturing not just the charge but the culture of social engagement of a high school kid, a YouTube take on superhero spectacle in the first person.

While it seems redundant to have yet another Spider - Man, Kevin Feige is taking a new spin on the character by reminding the audience he is actually a high school kid.

If we want tomorrow's scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors to «look like America,» our schools need to take special pains with the education of high - ability kids from disadvantaged circumstances.

Serving as a think - tank intermediary to devise such a strategy, PASA developed a plan called Learning in Communities / Providence, led by Rhode Island Kids Count (RIKC) and funded by the Wallace Foundation, which had taken an interest in the needs of the city's after - school programs in April 2003 after several studies reported that high - quality after - school programs are an affordable and effective way to improve school attendance and success.

Whether in high - or low - SES schools, kids take chances because risk is honored, because risks are taken from a comfortable platform, and because there's always a soft spot to land.

She has 18 to 20 high schools so she is spread rather thin... She is never angry or yells at the kids but again family and students take it very seriously... I would use her more if she was available.

Take a group of kids — let's say they're at - risk high school students — and give them the opportunity to not only participate in but also design and direct a worldwide videoconference with other teens in remote or war - torn or poverty - stricken locales.

Yet you focus on the negative finding: that higher - performing Texas schools were more likely to keep their low - performing kids from taking the test, and those kids did worse over the long term.

It did open the door to such an approach in high school, where kids are already taking lots of other tests.

Rosa Fernandez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who graduated from New York City's Manhattan International High School, put it this way in The Schools We Need, a publication by and for high school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.&raHigh School, put it this way in The Schools We Need, a publication by and for high school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.&School, put it this way in The Schools We Need, a publication by and for high school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.Schools We Need, a publication by and for high school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.&rahigh school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.&school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.»