Sentences with phrase «white parents leave»

In my research on school choice, one cultural disparity came up repeatedly as a reason for why white parents leave the schools they are trying to integrate.

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I live in Canada now, but I gave birth to both of my kids in the United States, and from the vantage point of the Great White North, I can tell you that parents here view the standard three - month American leave as unfathomable and a two - week leave as downright barbaric.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

Some parents have complained that the lotion doesn't absorb well into the skin, leaving a white hue in its wake.

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

When they arrived, I created a parking lot for them to leave individual questions for follow - up (Post-It notes on a white board works well), which preempted that doomsday scenario where one domineering parent hijacks the entire evening with a personal rant.

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.

When Johnson left TFA and joined Larchmont as its executive director, however, the school was facing a challenge experienced by many diverse charter schools: the annual admissions lottery was being flooded by white, relatively well - off parents, creating the danger that the school would lose the socioeconomic and racial diversity it was created to promote.

Among KIPP teachers, it says, there are «young parents who leave at 5 p.m. to pick up their children from daycare, part - time teachers who job share, and teachers who continue to work past 5 p.m.» It says 53 percent of KIPP teachers are white and 47 percent are African American, Hispanic or Asian American.

Many white parents sent children to local elementary schools and then pulled them out for high school, leaving many D.C. high schools overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.

Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.

White parents fled in huge numbers to the suburbs to avoid busing / integration for their children, leaving many cities with high percentages of minority communities.

In 2013, he briefly suggested that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was «impolitic» to place opposition to the Common Core State Standards upon «white, suburban moms» who don't want to find out that their children are not brilliant — just before he jumped in and declared that Secretary Duncan was right to be concerned that «a laudable set of guidelines» would be rejected for making kids work too hard, characterized most opposition to the standards as «welling hysteria» from the right and left wing, and chided parents concerned about the increasing lack of joy in school with declarations that portions of school ought to be «relatively mirthless» while blaming stories of students breaking down from stress upon their parents.

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Photo: Kyle Boyd»15 (left) with her parents at her Student Picks exhibition BREAKING WAVES: Exploring Water in Black - and - White Photographs.

Republican Party vs Supreme Court: Once the Election time to go to the polls, those millions of high - school students» parents will input their Votes to answer the Capital Hill how and decide whether Americans to let Donald Trump to leave the White Housed for good.

All of the reviews for this school are correct it is a top notch school the assistant principal is the only person that I have met in this school who I don't care for but the principal Carrol Wicker White is superb she takes as much time as necessary to speak and meet with parents and addresses their concerns.The teacher our son had this year is exceptional she is caring compassionate and very smart and handles challenges very well.Parents are very involved and kids are well taken care of and happy.We want to move to Carroll isd for high school but we will not leave this elementary school until our son finishes fourth grade because as great as the schools are in Carroll the elementary schools can not compare to this one this school truly is remarkable.