Sentences with phrase «wealthy kids in»

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Thomas Corley is the author of «Rich Habits: The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals,» and «Rich Kids: How To Raise Our Kids To Be Happy And Successful In Life.»

Nobody (including my children) «deserves» to participate in activities they can not pay for just because all of the wealthy kids are able to participate.

Meanwhile the poor kids get depressed, turn to other means to make them feel better, because they see the popular and wealthy getting all the perks in life.

Here's my take: There are thousands of wealthy people whose children end up getting full rides to play a sport, including many former professional athletes whose kids end up playing in college.

We were both working in the newspaper industry — meaning we weren't wealthy — but because we both agreed that we wanted someone to be home to raise the kids.

We are one of the wealthiest states in the wealthiest country in the world, and we just shouldn't have hungry kids — that's one of my fundamental beliefs.

Not like in wealthier suburbs where kids have the opportunity to go to early childhood programs that have play, the arts, and project - based learning.

While ours kids are growing up in a 24/7 digital world, children in lower income households have less access to technology than kids from wealthier families.

Whether you are wealthy or not, kids need to know that money is not in endless supply, available to them whenever they ask.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

And a wealthy couple entered into a contract giving the man the right to wander one weekend a year in exchange for allowing the missus to bear a fifth child — though after five kids, I imagine the mom might welcome a respite from sex.

«A high - energy kid in a wealthy context could be viewed as a go - getter, very engaged or very interested in a topic,» she said.

The authors suggest that wealthy black parents are less able to transfer wealth to their kids than their white counterparts, perhaps, due in part to having fewer liquid assets such as stocks, bonds and savings, which can be passed down more easily to the next generation.

Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than among kids in wealthier households.

In the meantime, the relentlessly ambitious and wealthy soft drink companies with their very hip life - style ads manage to seduce ever increasing numbers of consumers, most of them our kids.

I'm 40, work in design / engineering, not wealthy but get bye and provide for my kids.

He is wealthy, ambitious and somehow within that earning power and career determination managed to squeeze in a marriage and two kids.

Lady Bird abandons her devoted lower - class bestie, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), for a shallow, unambitious rich friend, Jenna (Odeya Rush), and two love interests from the wealthier side of the railroad tracks that divide Sacramento: first Danny (Lucas Hedges), a polite theater kid, then Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), a snobbish rebel rarely seen without a Howard Zinn book in hand.

Michael Konyves's script takes great pains to schematically lay out Barney's dying memories of how, in 1974 Rome, he married a beautiful, unfaithful bitch (Rachelle Lefevre), then after her suicide he wed the daughter (Minnie Driver) of a condescending wealthy family, and after experiencing love at first sight with Miriam (Rosamund Pike) on his second wedding night, he eventually tied the knot with her, had two kids, and ultimately destroyed that union via infidelity.

But while Clueless follows Emma on a point - for - point basis, its biggest similarities are still environmental, in the way the insular aristocrats of a small, wealthy village mirror the spoiled, perky kids of a Beverly Hills high school.

«The Riot Club» Synopsis: A young man arrives at Oxford University and is soon initiated into the Riot Club, a collection of some of the wealthiest and soon to be most powerful kids in Britain.

These are the kinds of experiences that can happen naturally in the lives of wealthier kids, says Barbic, experiences that help them deepen their education and broaden their own sense of possibility.

Margaret Blood: In the absence of a public policy commitment, we've allowed the market to take over and provide very high - quality services to a limited number of wealthy children and, for the most part, less - than - quality services to poor children, with lots of kids stuck in betweeIn the absence of a public policy commitment, we've allowed the market to take over and provide very high - quality services to a limited number of wealthy children and, for the most part, less - than - quality services to poor children, with lots of kids stuck in betweein between.

Even in wealthy areas, kids can go hungry.

The problem, Lenz says, was that he «kept hearing how project - based learning was nice for wealthy, suburban kids, but, «kids in urban settings aren't going to be able to do this kind of work.

In other words, the wealthy hand - to - mouth are parents overextending themselves to get their kids into the best schools possible in our de facto private systeIn other words, the wealthy hand - to - mouth are parents overextending themselves to get their kids into the best schools possible in our de facto private systein our de facto private system.

Then there is the achievement gap between American kids and their fellow students in other wealthy, industrialized nations.

A lot of the wealthy kids talk about being in a very competitive academic environment and the difficulty they find caring for each other in such an environment.

On a parallel track, in the 1960s, federal officials recognized that states and local school districts were systematically spending less to educate poor kids compared to wealthier kids.

Wealthy families can send their kids to prestigious prep schools like Choate, Loomis, or Hotchkiss while families who don't have the same resources are often relegated to the district schools in their cities and towns, even if they're not working for their kids.

Interestingly, however, there was no association between the extra homework hours that the wealthier Shanghai kids put in and their PISA test scores.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

In other words, throwing money at education for wealthy kids is okay, but not poor kids.

When Liz went to work at The Edward Brooke Charter School, I studied the school and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational success.

They wanted to prove that a kind of education many wealthy kids get in private schools could work with poor kids too.

Or are the kids in poor districts generally worse off than their peers in wealthier districts?

And there are plenty of non-wealthy DC parents who are seeking and finding opportunities for their kids, either in their own neighborhoods, in charter schools or in neighborhoods where the wealthy parents choose to avoid public schools.

Taking job creation, workforce development, transportation, healthcare, etc out of the conversation about kids in poverty (these aspects get little attention compared to schooling, even health doesn't come close) because schooling will take care of all that is just playing into the hands of corporate and wealthy interests.

Wealthy parents in Reseda can look into their children's educational career and see two options: Send their kids out of their own neighborhood to schools that have pretty low scores OR they can choose to send their kids to one of the several affordable private schools in the area.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

Some of those children live in towns with high concentrations of poverty, and some are at - risk kids residing in wealthier communities, he said.

Her commentary piece, entitled, Wealthy state is failing our poorest kids first appeared in the Stamford Advocate and other Hearst Media papers this past weekend

«When I travel around the country talking about these issues, I inevitably come up against, you know, wealthy folks in the suburbs who say, «Well, but my kids are fine,»» Michelle Rhee, a former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor, said during a recent gathering at The Daily.

How could such a wealthy state have kids in this kind of situation?»

In the past, I've made the argument, that if wealthier parents would just send their kids to the local neighborhood schools the schools would become more diverse and everybody would benefit.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

People tend to start off in small houses or apartments and buy bigger homes as kids come along, elderly dependents move in, or they become wealthier and trade up.

NDP: Cancel income splitting for families with kids under the age of 18 but keep it for seniors; eliminate the CEO stock option loophole that allows wealthy CEOs to avoid taxes on 50 % of income received from cashing in company stock (with proceeds invested into eliminating child poverty); increase investment in the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) by 15 % to further support working Canadians who live below the poverty line; introduce income averaging for artists.

Lawrence Pascoe recalls a relatively wealthy client who married and fathered kids in his early 40s.