The phrase "compliant children" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to children who are obedient and willing to follow rules and instructions. Example: The teacher praised the compliant children for completing their assignments on time and always following classroom rules.
But picking them requires courage, and compliant children dressed in their most terrible clothes.
I don't think most parents want compliant children, and I don't think they want defiant children.
Cool schools are a million miles from what Heppell calls the "old factory model" of education with its Dick Turpin style of stand-and-deliver teaching that attempts to churn out uniform, compliant children.
4.4% of protocol compliant children (56/1260) were parasite positive at the December survey by microscopy (table 5).
In 5 10 year olds, when a SARE occurred, lung function decreased by −2.1%/year in non-compliant children and remained at −0.8%/year in compliant children.
In 11 17 year olds, when a SARE occurred, lung function decreased by −1%/year in non-compliant children and −0.3%/year in compliant children.
On the other hand, an orderly and compliant child might not be neat by nature but just wants to please his parents.
I was a much more compliant child: he was good at getting out of washing the dishes whereas I'd never question it.
Now that these kids have been catapulted into the spotlight via Marc Jacobs' runway, they will, no doubt, be in high demand, if but for a season, in this unregulated industry of fashion, where one compliant child is swiftly replaced by the next by designers who choose to set an adolescent standard of beauty for women.
An internal risk assessment of restraint techniques, obtained by the Guardian, shows that certain procedures approved for use against non-compliant children carry a 40% or 60% chance of causing injuries involving the child's airway, breathing or circulation, the consequences of which could be "catastrophic".
There were no significant differences in age, BMI, and income between compliant and non-compliant children.
