Sentences with phrase «than their home school»

It is interesting that children who go to school, often look more independent than home school children, when they are younger, but when they get older, the home schooled children become a lot more independent (and I mean a lot more independent, for example they are much more likely to be entrepreneurs, and be civically involved).

The families who send their children to micro-schools often want an option other than home schooling that will personalize learning for their child's needs.

«I think we are a little more organized and we have more discipline than home schools,» she said.

Asked why she thinks her school should be considered a private school rather than a home school, Miller paused.

The Park City School District's guidelines for students to attend a school other than their home school have been established and comply with the standards of the «Enrollment Options Program» as outlined in Utah Code 53A -2-206.5 through 213.

Not exact matches

Being young and fresh out of school, it was definitely a challenge, but after six months, a year, 18 months went by, I started to realize that this felt more like home to me than anything I'd done before.

Today, the patented system is used in more than 5,000 schools districts, therapy centers, hospitals and homes in the United States and Canada.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

You must have a qualifying person living with you for at least half the year (except for a school absence) and you must bear more than half the cost of keeping a home.

Property near top primary and secondary schools in England can fetch up to # 38,800 more than surrounding homes, new data shows.

Children growing up in Selamta homes were healthier, did better in school, and reported feeling safer and more loved than children growing up in orphanages or on the street.

Perry «might could» do better in South Carolina than in Iowa, but his likeliest role is as a spoiler for Santorum, siphoning off social conservative votes that would otherwise go to the home - schooling father of seven.

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back home.

It raised more than # 30,000 for the people of Al - Doura, who had lost their homes and had ended up sleeping in churches and schools in other parts of Baghdad.

When it got seriously underway in the mid-1980s, many thought home schooling was little more than another gesture of disgruntlement on the part of «the religious right.»

She had to wear long winter underwear and heavy overshoes in bad weather; she remembers vividly how in grade school her teachers would let her start getting ready to go home five minutes earlier than the rest of the class because of all the layers she had to put on.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

«Some of us just have a hard time supporting a person who said he was going to be more liberal on gay rights than Ted Kennedy,» said Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, referring to remarks Romney made in a 1994 letter.

Even the language of faith needs something to build on, for confidence is more than words and must arise from the relationships of home, church, school, and community.

It's more than the fact that Brian is done with school and home with us again, more than circumstances aligned, more than footie jammies and Golden Books.

You Said:» Good thing the United States declared its independence from England or else we would have bullsh.it propaganda like this making its way through our home schools trying to teach a lot more than just «creationism».

In addition, you have not even attempted to show that children of mothers who work are any less successful in school or in life than those of stay - at - home mothers.

We often think that's why parents will pack sugary desserts in school lunches, probably much more often than they'd dole out sugary treats at home.

When I was a young, we returned home from school to lemon bars, still warm on the counter, more times than I can count.

More basic, homestyle cooking can be found at the house of Irma de Guerra, a grandmother who has opened her home to board students from the more than 50 Spanish language schools based in Antigua.

According to a recent study by PEW and reported by The Verge, teens increasingly find Facebook to be «stressful, an extension of their daily lives at school and home rather than a place where they can relax and be themselves.»

Those famous soft thick bakery sugar cookies with frosting (seem more like discs of cake though), the soft chewy ones you make at home to decorate for various holidays, or those not soft, sad, no flavor, gross kind of sugar cookies that kids would bring in on there birthdays in elementary school since their mom thought it was a «healthier» choice than cupcakes.

After I fumbled through each school day — doing more to slow down my brilliant co-teacher than to help her — I came home and I cooked.

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My job keeps me busy, busy, busy, and my new kitchen is much smaller than my kitchen at school, which is smaller yet than the kitchen in my parents» home.

Back and forth across the Carolinas and Virginias, where college basketball rates higher than barbecue, the schools of the Southern Conference torment each other with diabolic defenses, home - court advantages and 6 - foot 11 - inch carpetbaggers.

A Utah School of Medicine study cited in an ESPN TrueHoop report by Tom Haberstroh found that back - to - back games on the road yield 3.5 times more in - game injuries than those played at home.

The sophomore from Miami Norland high school has been outstanding as a featured back in 2013; he follows blocks better than a lot of home run hitters, but he still possesses home run capability.

In the Poway and Rancho Bernardo areas, at least 400 families reportedly lost their homes, including Poway High tight end Ryan Deehan, who has received scholarship offers from more than 20 schools including Arizona State, Colorado and Oregon.

Prohibit schools from requiring athletes to report for home games earlier than four hours before the start of the competition.

The first Colonial team is set to kick off this fall, playing home games at nearby Moon High School Stadium while marching to the drum of none other than former New York Jet coach Joe Walton.

Sometimes kids from worse backgrounds, with worse high school grades, did better than kids from decent homes, with decent grades.

Rather than trying to «teach» skills like grit and self - control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most likely to flourish.

My children's needs were more than adequately met by being at home with their father / grandmother (or later on preschool and then elementary school) during the 1/3 of the day that I wasn't with them.

The things my daughter finds to do and creates on her own with me just very loosely facilitating are now and have always been way cooler and more enriching for her than the organized things they did in preschool (and sadly now school - school, to the extent that I would not mind homeschooling, but that's a whole other more complicated issue...) A lot of it depends on the child and the home environment.

If your child's school doesn't have the option for them to compost their leftover food (perhaps you can inquire about it and get a system started), ask them to bring home their leftovers rather than throw them into the trash so you can either save them if they are salvageable or compost them yourself.

Children who eat breakfast at school — closer to test - taking time — perform better on standardized tests than those who skip breakfast or eat breakfast at home.

Most lunches brought from home make less waste and cost less than the school cafeteria options, and prove speedier than standing in lines.

Rather than have your child or teen work continuously for one full hour on homework, perhaps fifteen to twenty minutes right after arriving home from school, followed by a long break, and then work on homework again after dinner.

It is true, one of the teachers at my son's school said she didn't get home until 8 pm the night this was announced — 5 hrs later than school ends, imagine if school didn't end until 6 pm!

Early reading in schools is necessary so that the teacher can give children classroom assignments rather than working individually with each of them, but at home it doesn't matter.

Many home educators belong to sports teams or play in orchestras, and are generally far more relaxed about these things than their schooled contemporaries because they have so much more time available — and less need to compete.

If you are going to de-school, remember that home schooling, because it is one - on - one training, is much more efficient than learning in a large classroom, with one adult and 20 to 30 children.

The children also take trash - free lunches to school; we don't use any disposable paper or plastic products in our home (other than toilet paper).