The word "retard" is common in the schoolyard and on our screens: while our taboos about difference shift with incredible speed, slurs about intellectual disability often get a pass.
Throughout the song, Kish explains that she's named after her father, and that her mother's pet name for her, Kisha, was too common among the schoolyard girls for her liking.
— Alarmed by evidence that gay and lesbian students are common victims of schoolyard bullies, many school districts are bolstering their antiharassment rules with early lessons in tolerance, explaining that some children have "two moms" or will grow up to love members of the same sex.
Those made with a slightly different design, which features a double rim and straight steel supports, were discontinued years ago but remain a common sight in schoolyards, public parks and small lots around the city.
It is now common for that power to extend beyond the schoolyard and beyond school hours and parents in many cases demand that.
It is a common assumption that the existence of programs like the Edible Schoolyard means that Berkeley students already eat well, but when Cooper arrived last fall, the district's menu looked like menus everywhere with their fried and fatty foods.
Mr. Lindsay-Abaire depicts through small but telling details how their divergent economic destinies have left them with little common ground besides the small patch of withered grass that is their shared schoolyard past.
Their story is a common one: a brother was kidnapped and tortured, and the children were bullied in the schoolyard, accused of being spies even by the principal.
At the moment it's "like a schoolyard or worse", says Beith. 4. Changing the way the Commons deals with finance.
Of all the crazy things that can happen in a schoolyard during recess, a seagull with a broken wing dropping to the pavement is not the most common.
