We've all been there: coming home from school, too much homework to do, hungry.
"I love the school too much and I knew this basketball team had a chance to win".
Too much stress, apparently, on struggling pupils and struggling schools; too much of a blight on creative teaching, rich curriculums, true learning.
Because of his background at Brown and as a teacher familiar with real-world classroom challenges, his appointment tempered some fears that Ms. Black would run the schools too much by the numbers.
Reneka's boyfriend last year was that kind of neighborhood boy — a low-life, in Reneka's estimation, who skipped school too much, smoked too much weed and would never amount to anything.
But whether the problem is weak diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, lackluster security and little money for schools, too much media attention to spectacular crimes or too little public debate about social inequality, the killings have presented an unusual political and security challenge to the ruling Communist Party.
At the same time, schools which are only too well aware of vulnerable children on their books may not refer them on to other agencies for the support they need, either because the agencies themselves do not have the resources to cope or simply because it costs schools too much to do so.
These days, he is dormant on Twitter because it "triggered too much", made him feel like he was back in high school, too much of an "open wound", at the mercy of those who "get off on the power of being able to affect someone who seems impenetrable.
It had, for example, the second-highest student-faculty ratio in the Ivy League; its faculty salaries were fifteen to twenty-five per cent lower than those of similar schools; too much of its money came from undergraduate tuition; and it had the smallest endowment in the Ivy League.
And in secondary schools, too much emphasis is placed on the "mechanics" of reproduction rather than the importance of healthy sexual relationships.
