Sentence examples for school lacking from inspiring English sources

Gareth Jenkins, director of UK poverty at the charity Save the Children, said: "Today's figures show that despite progress, one in five children still arrive at school lacking the skills they need to learn and thrive.

The chancellor said investment in education was vital to meet the challenge of globalisation; he unveiled plans for 3,000 extra science teachers and free A- level tuition for those aged under 25 who had left school lacking the right qualifications for the modern workforce.

Maybe if you come from an over-protective family you aren't able to develop your own personality, so you go to school lacking the basic social skills and become a target of school bullies.What about video games?A lot of research shows that playing aggressive video games that encourage violence as normal results in problem behaviour.

Although I was never a poor student, I entered graduate school lacking the proper preparation.

Gonzales is president of the school's new parent-teacher organization, formed this summer after the state budget cuts left the school lacking everything from pencils to paper towels.

In fact, recent research has shown that as little as a 1-standard-deviation decrease in segregation would eliminate one-third of the black-white differences in life experiences, such as dropping out of high school, lacking a job, or becoming a single parent (Cutler and Glaeser,1997).

What the school lacked, however, was its own gymnasium.

She said she was concerned that the school lacked adequate security.

But the digital revolution required yet another technology overhaul, for which the school lacked money.

His emotion faded, however, when he turned to what the school lacked.

The school lacked a "safe room," officials said, as did neighboring Briarwood elementary, also destroyed.