Sentences with phrase «than missing school»

Rather than missing school for long periods of time, thus failing all courses or being held back, a resolution is to offer an independent study plan that spans all subject areas.

Not exact matches

In April the group abducted more than 200 school girls from classes in Chibok and many of them are still missing.

Girls are more likely than boys to miss school for water - related reasons, either because they need to collect water for their families or because, once they hit puberty, schools lack toilet facilities to let girls manage their menstrual cycles.

They are more learned than we are, more fortunate, more highly endowed, more charming, more influential; they get what we aspire to but miss; they are promoted more swiftly in the business office, are rated higher in the school, are praised more in the market - place.

Ok he had a howler vs soton, but other than that I cant really think of any games where he was particularly bad (I do miss some games due to school).

Am reading all over the net and hear as well that people are blaming the players fabianski for not getting his angles right, he had an ok game but a top class keeper would not be beaten at his near post, song who out of nowhere has become an attacking midfielder, chamaka for missing two easy headers, diaby for taking too long on the ball, Squillaci, Koscielny i know they new but they are making some mistakes that school boys would not basic mistakes rosciky for blasting a penalty over the bar when a cool head was needed, deneilson your team leading 1 nill late in a game and you shoot rather than take or pass the ball to the corner i can go on almunia whose technique is horrible and you say this team has improved.

Missing the first two days of school after winter break is okay for my future eighth grader — he will be at a family wedding, with uncles and grandparents, and extended family, and that event and those memories will be far more important in his hopefully long life than the algebra he won't be learning those days.

She too starts school this year but as most of her friends have already started, even though they're only a few weeks older than her, she feels like she's missing out I think.

Missing school during the middle school years is a little more complicated than in elementary school.

Children have to read for school, but if your child isn't reading for fun than she's missing out.

If high schoolers feel they need more than 850 calories at lunch, this may be because they are trying to make up for a missed meal.

Students miss more than 51 million school hours per year * because of dental problems or related conditions.

Your experience and the other comments indicate that many U.S. school lunches are far healthier than what many kids get at home; I can attest to this from my own childhood, although looking back the lunch I CHOSE (there's that missing education about food) was pretty deficient.

«Some may be OK until school starts up again... but we know many others are missing meals and getting far less food than they should.»

If it had been me at that age, missing a few days at the beginning of school would have made me even shier and hesitant than I already was (with the other kids — with grown - ups I was fine).

Schools that serve children of color, who are at much higher risk of childhood obesity than white children, have been conspicuously missing from the debate and experts say the opposition could negatively impact the NSLP in the long run.

Rochester City School District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more than 10 percent of school lastSchool District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more than 10 percent of school lastschool last year.

That's the same tactic Cuomo and lawmakers used to get districts to implement the ratings in 2013, and New York City schools lost more than $ 250 million because they missed the deadline.

A mother of the missing Chibok girls has alleged that the Vice Principal of the secondary school, Yerima Banjiri knows more than meet the eye on...

More than a dozen school workers, including at least two in the Bronx, have been terminated since 2009 for falsifying excuses for missing work.

According to Nana Addo, since the introduction of the policy, the number of students who would have missed out on Senior High School education has dropped by more than 30 percent.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

Students who are just learning English are far more likely to miss school and drop out than their peers, a probable contributor to their poor graduation rates.

More than One hundred girls were reported missing after suspected Boko Haram terrorist group attacked the school on Monday.

I missed my old school, a parochial microcosm of people possessing bronze - kissed skin tones richer and more plentiful than every brown and yellow color in my biggest box of crayons.

Schools that receive funding based on children's presence rather than based on total enrollment will have lower revenue when children miss school for any reason.

«Almost a third of the households were food insecure, and more than 16 percent had very low food security, meaning they were skipping meals, at risk for experiencing hunger and probably missing work and school and suffering health problems as a result,» said study lead author Michelle Kaiser, an assistant professor of social work at Ohio State.

More young people than ever are getting most of their information about sexual matters from school, but the majority feel they are not getting all the information they need, and men in particular are missing out, according to new research published in BMJ Open.

EPA health analyses found that a 60 - ppb standard would prevent nearly 2 million child asthma attacks and missed school days each in 2025, versus more than 300,000 each at 70 ppb, the groups note.

Also, patients who stepped down did not miss any more work or school than patients who kept their medicines at the same level.

While the kids were content to sit around and go back and forth between the Wii and playdough (really, they're just happy to miss school), I got more than a little stir crazy.

Gennaro and Kenzie have aged more believably than is the case with characters in a lot of other series: He's exhausted and scrambling for freelance gigs; she's a grad - school student and stay - at - home mom who misses the adrenaline rush of her old job.

Bernard Flannigan (Skyler Gisondo) is an awkward, pedantic high school junior who never misses a meeting of the school board and counts his grandfather (Bruce Dern, delightful) as his only friend — other than his Chinese pen pal / girlfriend.

By a 31 - 4 vote on Feb. 8, the Senate passed a bill that would bar student parents who miss more than four weeks of payments from sports and other extracurricular activities, including drama, debate, and school publications.

INFECTION PREVENTION Illness is the most common reason for absence from schools, accounting for more than half (58 per cent) of school days missed.

«What they may be missing is a way of concisely documenting it and rather than start from scratch, they should look at the Food for Life School awards — I think they would be pleasantly surprised about how much they already do.

By the mere nature of arriving late and missing school hours, students receive fewer hours of instruction than students who are in class when the bell sounds.

A 2015 report from the Acoustical Society of America found that more than 18 per cent of primary and secondary school teachers in the US miss at least one day of work per year due to voice disorders.

Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one - third of a year of classroom learning.

A new Fordham report finds that 28 % of teachers in traditional district schools miss more than 10 school days a year for sick or personal leave while teachers in charter schools have lower rates absences.

The average Massachusetts student misses eight school days per year, according to Goodman, but student absences vary by poverty status, with poor students being absent ten days per year on average, three days more than nonpoor students.

«Schoolwide» improvement is for schools that miss new AYP growth targets for all students or for subgroups that total more than one - third of school enrollment.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

Though racial and ethnic breakdowns were missing from his data, what Coleman discovered, and documents with some detail, is that students didn't care much about scholastic things; that, in all the schools, they cared more for «good looks» and «being an athlete» than they did for «good grades» and «being smart.»

New data from the U.S. Department of Education suggest that teacher absenteeism is becoming a serious problem, with about one in three teachers missing more than 10 days of school each year.

As the «school employer,» I know that I am far more likely to motivate an uninterested student with poor attendance to show up, and therefore make it more likely that she will pass my class and graduate, by telling how much we missed her during her absence rather than by giving her a zero on missed assignments.

One in five students was absent more than present — missing more than 90 days of school.

Hedy Chang, who heads a research project called Attendance Counts, has calculated that children living in homes without enough food missed two days more than better - fed kids, children whose mothers are unemployed missed two more days than those whose moms had jobs, children whose mothers had less than a high - school education missed 1.5 more days, and those whose mothers are in poor health missed two days more.

It may be the case, for example, that poor academic performance causes a student to choose to miss school, rather than the reverse.

When absenteeism increased last year in the Dallas Independent School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school year automatically receive a failing grade.