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Happy back to school! Parents, teachers and students, find funny and motivational back-to-school quotes about education, learning and working with others.
On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”― Ann Brashares “The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
The "Why Mom Deserves a Diamond" contest is an American essay contest founded by Michael "Diamond Mike" Watson in Costa Mesa, California in 1993. The contest was established in honor of Watson's adoptive mother and the birth mother he had never known.
It is endorsed by the contest criteria of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and is designed to foster patriotism by allowing students the opportunity to voice their opinion in a three- to five-minute essay based on an annual theme. Historically, the Voice of Democracy theme (chosen by the VFW Commander-in-Chief annually ...
Landmark inaugurated the program in the mid-1980s as The National Written and Illustrated by...Awards Contest for Students, [3] and ran it until 1999. [1] A year later, future awards were canceled indefinitely, due to falling sales of their titles caused by "the financial crunch in many schools and libraries". [4]
Even after entrusting their 11- and 12-year-olds to a Hall of Famer, parents couldn’t resist yelling tips to their sons — put your back elbow up! — while they batted. "These kids couldn't ...
The relationship between parents and their children features prominently in the novel, and in an interview, Hosseini elaborated: Both [The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] are multigenerational, and so the relationship between parent and child, with all of its manifest complexities and contradictions, is a prominent theme. I did not ...