Not as a sport, perhaps, but as a team that chronically struggles to score.
Our goal has always been to create a stable, productive and educationally sound environment for a chronically struggling school district.
Dr. Lydia A. Shrier, director of clinic-based research on adolescent and young-adult medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, said some young people chronically struggled with these issues.
Tennessee's Achievement School District, founded as part of the state's effort to qualify for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant, is one of a small handful of state-run districts intended to rejuvenate chronically struggling schools.
And although YouTube, which has chronically struggled to turn a profit, has proved to be the Goliath of the online video world, Blip.tv and a handful of scrappy video startups have fared well through offering clever partnerships and freemium benefits.
This "Achievement School District" is, according to the Times, among a growing number of "... state-run districts intended to rejuvenate chronically struggling schools".
Yet intuitions chronically conflict.
Many feel their lives were taken from them as they struggle, chronically, with severe emotional, relational and substance-abuse issues.
In Seattle, as in many cities in the US, these offenders are often chronically homeless and struggle with either mental health or substance abuse issues, or both.
A former model who is now chronically ill and struggles just to shower says the people she has met online have become her family.
