Sentences with phrase «upper middle class parents»

Middle and upper middle class parents are more likely to adopt what she calls a «Concerted cultivation «style of parenting, while working class parents adopt «natural growth» parenting styles.

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

Not exact matches

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

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.

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.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

The point wasn't to learn about nutrition, but rather about language — how to fill an everyday shopping trip with the kind of nonstop chatter that has become second nature to most upper - middle - class parents, full of questions about numbers and colors and letters and names.

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.

Born in New York City to wealthy upper - middle class English parents, Johnson was educated at the European School of Brussels, Ashdown House School, and Eton College.

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

Middle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarMiddle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarmiddle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awareness.

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.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

Hardly the hearty tale of maritime adventure that the title suggests, The Squid and the Whale is a coming - of - age drama that focuses on how the four members of an upper - middle - class New York family and how they react to the imminent divorce of the parents.

The tight - knit but tense atmosphere around the upper - middle - class Jacobs clan, however — parents Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), adult daughter Dana (Slate) and still - at - home high schooler Ali (Abby Quinn)-- is emotionally timeless.

Tracy Letts and Laurie Metcalf are vividly understated as Lady Bird's parents, middle - middle - class people surrounded by upper - middle - class neighbours.

Season one saw upper - middle - class parents of two, Frances (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Robert (Thomas Haden Church), descend into an increasingly hostile separation after 10 years of marriage.

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.

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.

Often these parents tend to be middle class or upper middle class, and they create or join extracurricular organizations that charge participation fees.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

Even in upper - middle - class communities, not all parents want the same things for their kids.

The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.

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.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

Fiora's family is solidly middle class, yet gauche and awkward among the upper - class parents at Ault.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

Through Choice, low - income parents now participate in some of the choices long enjoyed by middle and upper - class parents.

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

It isn't clear what drove these principals to reject the white, upper - middle - class parents and their attempts to bring resources to the schools.

asks a Brooklyn mother of three who has been working in education for nearly 20 years, «When upper - middle - class charter parents start bragging to their friends?»

I learned people skills and how to navigate a career path from my parents and their upper middle - class friends.

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

Traditional parent - teacher conferences often work well for students in upper - and middle - class families.

And those likeliest to be short - changed are poor kids and those without savvy, obsessive (and generally upper - middle class) parents.

In reality, however, this underrepresentation reflects the education system's own failure to identify such kids and counsel them into a sufficiency of classrooms, schools, and programs — a failure that inevitably advantages upper middle class youngsters with pushy, well - educated, well - connected parents.

The elimination of these deductions, along with new incentives for wealthier parents to consider private schools, could be detrimental to the public schooling system as it could trigger the flight of wealth and upper - middle class families.

Also, middle - and upper - class parents tend to know more about how to influence the system.

· 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

The reality is that middle - and upper - class parents want symbols of our social status.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

But a new generation of parents, including young middle - and upper - class families descending on the city, could herald an end to the city's entrenched segregation.

West Hartford, a district of 10,000 student and 16 schools in a mostly upper - middle - class suburb, has long attracted young parents with its reputation for stellar schools.

In upper - middle - class and wealthy neighborhoods, in particular, they are too busy doing other things, like playing sports, studying, and following a full schedule of activities booked by their parents.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to move to their preferred public school district or to send their children to a non-public school.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to move to their preferred public school