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He finds it very offensive, given his experiences living in Cuba, and so he's asked us to reconsider having it on the shelves in one of our elementary schools.

We took delivery of the Smart Cars over the weekend and have been getting interest everywhere we go -- left, front and center. As we were parking them in front of the dealership, they attracted so much attention they literally stopped traffic, and even caused a fender-bender as people were gawking at them. I drove by my son's elementary school and the teacher invited me to bring the Smart Car for show and tell!

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

My perspective on that was I don't think the call was made correctly. My perspective was if it's a catch, the ball would have stayed in his glove. It's pretty elementary for me. He (plate umpire Mike Winters) called me nuts. It's not the first time I've been called that.

My whole life, I heard, 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.' It's all I heard throughout elementary school.

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

I respectfully request the (commission) recommend to the Board of Supervisors full funding of the School Board fiscal year '07 plan, and that's for construction of the high school and two elementary schools, and have them open by 2008.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

Regardless of what decision is ultimately made regarding the school, we realize there is merit in holding onto that site. One day a new elementary could be located there.

Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.

Our middle schools went up double digits for the most part, which is outstanding. We have elementary schools that are approaching the 900 mark. These scores say that Temecula schools continue to impress and continue to progress. We are very proud of all the work our students and staff have done.

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

I think this is a responsible budget for the elementary and secondary costs. With the secondary portion there were a lot of pieces out of our control.

It is clear to me that the eighth elementary is going to have to happen.

I'm here at the elementary school in the morning and in the afternoon at the high school, so it's kind of a puzzle. Figuring out my place.

I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Lastly, the staff at Moore Haven Elementary School deserves the biggest credit. The staff had to pack up all their teaching materials, personal materials and school district materials at the end of the school year last year to be moved from the 64,000 plus square-foot facility, then they have come back on their own time to unpack all those materials and get their rooms back in order.

I think (the center) will be very interesting for elementary school kids, especially.

Parents are clueless. They have no idea you can ask out, just like they have no idea they can view their (child's) tests. I know you're going to see a lot more opt-outs for the elementary grade levels.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

It is one of New York City's best public elementary schools.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

I think this division (between the two elementary schools) is both wise and judicious.

I think we need to address the elementary and middle schools first. Those are safety issues that they are dodging over there.

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child's brain at the elementary levels.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

We were hoping at one point to sell the (old) elementary school and use that money, but that's a contentious issue now.

We anticipate that we will see anywhere from 600 to 1,200 new students. Just in recent days we have enrolled a large number of kids in both elementary and secondary schools.

We are hoping that the county will use the 16.3 acres as an elementary school site.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

I was principal at Maxwell Elementary School, in Fayette County, in the early 1970s. This is very nice. It shows a lot of talent.

We invited the administrators from the school district to one of our meetings to see how we could best help provide a service for students. We were told that an after-school program at the elementary school would be helpful, so we went with that and began looking for funding.

We get on a bus for every game. We miss Connelly Stadium, but we definitely need a new high school and our kids never complain. They walk across Montvale Ave. and over a hill to the elementary school and then walk back after practice. But we're a closer team because of it.

We need to teach more health education at the elementary school level.

We need three more elementary schools, two more intermediates and another high school. We never have enough schools.

We know there's better recognition of ADHD, and we also know that when children are treated nowadays, they're more likely to be treated over a longer period of time, ... If you go back five, seven, eight years ago, it was very rare that an adolescent with ADHD was treated. And usually it'd just be a child in elementary school was treated, but nowadays prescriptions have probably risen because adolescents are getting treated, there's better recognition for girls and they tend to be treated more throughout the school year.

We're all 100 percent for keeping the elementary schools in their communities opposed to making a warehouse for the kids, so to speak.

We have to push this (test scores) up so it has the same increase as middle schools and elementary schools.

Willcox Elementary Principal Eldon Merrell and his staff work very hard, beyond the clock at end of the day. That says something about the quality of the program,

We'll use it as an elementary school until we can build other schools in the area.

We have a form they use. It's a student application, and they have to tell us why they want to be a part of the mentoring program, and then why they think they're qualified to mentor elementary students.

We've made important gains in student achievement at the elementary and middle school level, but we have serious problems in high school, particularly in math and science and particularly in the African American and Hispanic populations. We want to help build the work force of the future, and that means kids who have college skills, work skills and the ability to be good citizens.

We expect 1,500 elementary and middle school students throughout Glynn County to attend the two free performances. These are very popular and always fill up early. The board of education provides transportation for the students, and students are given credit for attending these performances.

We have really tried to make the building feel more like a middle school. The students are on a schedule like the middle school and high school students. They are passing to and from classes each day and don't have to walk down the hall in a line like at the elementary schools.

The only way to provide relief to the most students would be to do an administrative boundary change and move any new students into Halley Elementary School. It's the only thing we can think of that we can do and have changes in place for this school year.

There is a river of sugar running through our elementary schools. We want to start stop offering candy as a reward ---- it has no nutritional value." ()

We're actually building a middle school but right now we need elementary school desks.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

There is no doubt that the hard work of the Johnson staff and district staff as we implement new teaching and learning strategies is at the heart of this recognition, ... We are very proud of Johnson Elementary and our staff, and we fully anticipate that we will see more success as we move forward.

There are approximately 90 in-home daycares in the county, three licensed daycare facilities, 10 preschools and 11 elementary or secondary schools, ... When you consider that a sex offender is not allowed to reside within a 2,000-foot radius of these locations (the length of 6.5 football fields) that really eliminates most of the town.

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

We still have our TAG clusters in elementary and we still have our TAG courses in high school. Our TAG program is as robust and alive as it ever was. It's the administrative support, generally speaking, will have to be absorbed by other administrators on campus and at the central office.

When they extended their zone, the floor shrunk. It was like playing on an elementary school floor for us.

The politicians have focused so much on the mega-churches in the county from a land use perspective until they have not looked at the contributions being made by the smaller churches. Our church has a partnership with Longfields Elementary where we provide textbooks, school supplies and even shoes for the children.

We began an aggressive reading strategy through Reading First two years ago in nearly 100 elementary schools with low reading achievement across the state. These efforts, which involve students in the early grades, will show up on NAEP measures in future years, and will give us a roadmap for expanding this approach to providing professional development, building leadership and strengthening reading instruction in more schools in our state.

We worked with Dianne for years before we knew of her association with the bombing. We were all elementary school principals together in Prince George's County in Maryland.

We do get more requests from elementary schools. The background checks are very valuable, and we think it's worth the investment.

The facts are startling: in Germany, 36% of undergraduates receive their degrees in science and engineering. In China, the figure is 59%, and in Japan 66%. In the United States, the corresponding figure is 32%, ... It is clear we need to do all we can to attract more students to the sciences to remain competitive in the global economy. Such an effort must start in our elementary and secondary schools. National Chemistry Week provides our teachers with the tools and ideas to spark that interest.

The day they tell me I can't hug them (my students), I'll quit. As an elementary teacher, my kids know that when they need a hug, there's one there for them. . . . (But) were I a teacher in a junior high or high school, I would not be hugging the kids.

We learn about these things in elementary school, but as parents we can forget to be teaching our kids about it, too. This gives them an opportunity to act rather than wait idle.

Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand. Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: "The House of Life." He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffebly tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.

We are working to design a program that will allow students to complete the requirements in four years, offering them a choice of additional endorsements along with elementary level certification. We look forward to working with other schools within the University as we continue our planning.

We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD.

This summer we replaced all the windows in the elementary school, and that will help,

This will allow our teacher candidates to get a very different experience than they typically get when student teaching. Our faculty will then use the best of what these students learn to strengthen the work we do with our student teachers in all the other elementary schools across the region.

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.

We're required by No Child Left Behind to have 100 percent proficiency by 2014, so anything that takes away from instructional time from those three areas (math, reading and writing) at the elementary level is kind of critical for us to look at,

Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets? ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food?

We also want to give these students some opportunities for fun such as opening Riddle Elementary gymnasium and letting them play basketball or allowing them access to the school's library. We also want to make ourselves available to help them out.

When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a majority black school. Since I moved into middle school (Haile) and high school, Black History Month has not been recognized as much.

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

When we had hot lunch in elementary school, I liked those biscuits they served. You could smell them about an hour before lunch.

United is thrilled to be able to come out to Payne Elementary to kick off the start of our fourth season of United Reads. I think our players and staff look forward to these visits as much as the kids do. We all are avid readers, and to be able to spread that message along with providing new books to the kids is a blessing we embrace.

We started getting calls from all over town that (Wheatley) was driving at over 100 mph, ... He passed the mayor (Larance Davis) near Davis Elementary School and the mayor said he was going well over 100.

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Yes. Is it a tight squeeze? Indeed, but should we need other monies for contingency purposes, it appears we have another $162,000 the board hasn't spent and another $350,000 in capital improvement funds that would not impact the construction of the eighth elementary school or the Norge or Stonehouse renovations.

When I was approached I realized that this has to be the face of the future not only for education but also for the health of American children. If the concepts are proven, Rochester will consider expanding such an experimental environment in one of our elementary schools.

During 9/11, we had a rapid response. We were in the secondary schools. We were in the elementary schools, and we were at headquarters. We touched base with all the schools and worked our way through the district. We started immediately.

Elementary and middle schools are two unique animals. Eventually, I see it turning into two separate organizations.

Eliminating the federal share of CPB funding would free up $400 million this year, ... That is enough money to build 40 elementary schools.

Based on a thorough analysis of the five-year academic results at all 2,850 schools appearing in the Institute's Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools, we rated the schools on three categories of academic performance. The awards will be presented to the top school team in each category. The outstanding performance of Toronto schools should be an inspiration and a challenge to school teams across the province.

Every school from the elementary to the two middle schools to the high school, we had representatives of every school.

I see that as a huge issue for all of us with high-functioning kids in elementary school.

Concerns are what can I do because I can't find a contractor. How do I hang a door? How do I reset my windows? And again, some of these are pretty elementary do-it-yourself skills. They're still skills that under normal circumstances, you would hire a contractor to do. You can't find a contractor so you learn to do it yourself.

I've been here K through 12, and we've all been playing together since elementary school. (Receiver) Mark Dillman moved here before freshman year, but other than him it's been us all the way.

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

I've been clean since I've been in the league, I've been clean since I've been in college, I've been clean since I've been in high school, middle school, elementary school. I'm just cleaner than clean. I'm cleaner than Pine-Sol.

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.

We were in it up until the second half when we gave the penalty away. At this level you cannot make elementary mistakes like that.

We need to get back to the basics in elementary school. Without that, the enhanced curriculum in junior and senior high school will reject more students.

We're talking largely about the secondary schools because we know elementary schools are neighborhood schools.

The state core (curriculum), I believe, supports the Alpine program. If you were to get the elementary math (teacher) endorsement program, you could look at it and the math is almost trivial. It's mostly about pedagogy.

We need to decide if it is just an elementary school, a K-8 or two schools on one campus.

When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them

I've seen some kids as young as second or third grade use planners ... the very elementary planners. Letting kids see that a planner can help them get their projects done and organize their time at home can be very helpful.