Sentences with phrase «upper class children»

We need to devise ways of responding and coping with the inequities the division of computer access will be between poor children and the middle and upper class children.

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Saving for retirement, saving for children and their education, owning your own home: these things sound upper class to me.

Chang — who said upper - middle - class investors are buying smaller apartments for themselves or their children — said that his Beijing contacts expect investment to pick up now that the Communist Party's 19th Congress is in the rearview mirror.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

There they were in the illustrations to the antiquated children's biblical histories handed down from class to class in my parochial school; exotic, powerful female creatures with their veils and sandals and the bracelets they wore on their upper arms and ankles as well as on their wrists.

The Church thinks that loud bands, trendy vicars, comfy seats, child minding and a cafe will bring um in, give me a break, when I first got the call, the Church then was cold, hard pews, poor lighting, a choir who thought they were Gods gift to the world, toffy nosed upper classes who looked down their noses at me and the divorced, but I didn't care, I loved it and joined in the singing except when it was in latin.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

What about other children — middle - class or upper - middle - class kids?

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

What about mothers from the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere who leave their children behind to raise the children of America's middle - and upper - classes; are they good mothers?

Older children would co-sleep with siblings, with a member of the extended family or, for the upper classes, with a servant or nurse - maid.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

In 17th century England, for instance, it was typically upper - class women who hired wet nurses, while working - class women nursed their own children.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

They created a pamphlet that appealed to the upper - class women, claiming that breastfeeding created a special closeness between mother and child, and gave the child a firm foundation of love.

«Working class people, people that have children they'd like to be with, people that want to go back to work,» said Rodriguez, a Democrat representing upper Manhattan, Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill.

This means offering entering Ph.D. s a normal upper - middle - class existence, that is, remuneration sufficient to purchase a house at age 32 (the national average), support 2.3 children from birth through college, and provide for a reasonable retirement income.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good - looking children and more - than - adequate finances.

It was affixed to those achievement - obsessed upper - middle class parents who cared so much about their children's comfortable excellence that they did everything they could to ensure it — like the kids» homework, mainly.

In «DC,» Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline play an upper - middle - class couple going through a sort of empty - next syndrome now that their children are grown up and have moved away.

Patrick's godfather and David's close friend, Nicholas Pratt is the poster child for what's wrong with the British upper class.

In 1931, with a handful of silent shorts and features under his belt, director Jean Renoir made a tentative transition to sound cinema with «On Purge Bébé,» a broad comedy about an upper - class household put on edge by a constipated child.

As the film begins, she is seemingly content in her surroundings; she has children who she loves dearly, more money than anyone could possibly spend and a fine social standing in upper class Italian society.

The most subtle of all the selections this year are almost certainly Rooney Mara's interpretation of Therese Belivet, a young lesbian who falls for an older, more sophisticated and upper - class woman named Carol (Cate Blanchett, herself in the running for Best Leading Actress); and Rachel McAdams» resilient and emotionally restrained Sacha Pfeiffer, a Boston Globe reporter who helped expose the decades - long cover up of the Catholic church's involvement in child molestation at the hands of Boston area priests.

The year is 1958, the place New York, and Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is leading the life of the upper - class housewife she'd always imagined for herself... until, that is, her husband, a would - be standup comic, blames her for his failures and takes off, leaving Midge alone with two young children and an upended life.

«Black - ish» is about an upper - middle class black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

BLACK - ISH (formerly UNTITLED ANTHONY ANDERSON / KENYA BARRIS; single camera) PICKED UP TO SERIES STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Kenya Barris (w, ep), Anthony Anderson (ep), Larry Wilmore (ep), Laurence Fishburne (ep), Helen Sugland (ep), Tom Russo (ep), Peter Principato (ep), Paul Young (ep), Brian Dobbins (ep), James Griffiths (d) LOGLINE: An upper - middle class black man struggles to raise his children with a sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

And while the film is made for children, the quips during the adventure — many of the British upper - class twit variety — come fast and furious and will mostly fly way over their heads.

While criticisms against Anderson are often levelled against his upper middle - class bias and his man - child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

The power of middle - and upper - middle - class families to exercise control over how and what their children are taught is one example.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Teaneck, N.J. — The jailing of teachers seemed bizarre, out of place, in Teaneck, a liberal, upper - middle - class community of 40,000 where parents discuss where, not whether, their children will attend college.

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

Donaldson says that TFA is often looked at like a «volunteer experience for upper, middle - class college graduates at the expense of working class children.»

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

Many upper - middle - class parents are willing to have their children be «the first» white kids in a school and are comfortable with the idea of their child being a superminority.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

The upper and middle classes send their children to school with all the accouterments of the culture of power; children from other kinds of families operate within perfectly wonderful and viable cultures but not cultures that carry the codes or rules of power.

Such may be the case for children from middle - and upper - class homes, but for those whose families can't afford camp or other activities, summer is often a time of emptiness and tedium.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

Unfortunately this has not proven to be the case, but that argument did make vouchers more acceptable so that now they are expanding beyond inner - city, low - income students to children of middle class and upper income families.

It found 6 % admitted attending church services when they did not previously do so, to get their child into a church school - including 10 % of upper - middle - class families surveyed.

· 6 % admitted attending church services when they didn't previously so their child could go to a church school, including 10 % in the upper middle classes

· 2 % of parents admitted to buying a second home and using that address so that their children could gain access to a specific school, including 5 % of the upper middle classes

Yes, sacrificing the have - nots by taking more educational dollars from already struggling public school Districts and sending them to upper class / upper middle class families who want to send their children to private schools.

In fact, gifted children, gifted people, occur in all sectors of the population, and occur more often in the larger middle and lower class sectors, than the supposedly privileged upper class described in The Bell Curve.