Sentence examples for abandoned the school from inspiring English sources

Forty per cent of the children in this school are from the Roma community, and many children have abandoned the school.

And the government has nearly abandoned the schools and hospitals.

The politicians, said Uti Akpan, 30, a textiles trader in Lagos, "have abandoned the schools because their children do not go to schools here".

The peacekeepers were ordered to abandon the school in order to escort foreigners to the airport and out of Rwanda.

They sought shelter there precisely because of the UN peacekeepers, but Lemaire was ordered to abandon the school.

Aurukun elders have lashed out at the Queensland government's decision to shut the community's only school until July, accusing it of abandoning the school's 300-odd students.

Other actions include abandoning the school dress code, and cancelling school whenever she feels like it.

MEMPHIS — When thousands of white students abandoned the Memphis schools 38 years ago rather than attend classes with blacks under a desegregation plan fueled by busing, Joseph A. Clayton went with them.

Today's advocates see competition with private schools as the best way to force public schools to improve; those against vouchers contend that choice all but abandons the public school system and breaks down the wall between church and state.

The chief of Ofsted has described deprived white families as feeling "abandoned" by the school system.

I suffered through a summer of Bible camp; exercise regimens were begun and abandoned; and the school even brought in a psychiatrist to grill me once a week.