She lags behind her far smaller classmates.
While it is not easy for older children to sit amongst smaller classmates, said Ms. Simelane, they face a future with few opportunities if they do not learn.
He had been in fights over the past year, picking on smaller students, classmates said, and had been so difficult to control at home lately, his mother said, that she had petitioned the courts for extra supervision and foster care.
He came to Islam not because of specific truth-claims about God, but because "those Arabic prayers gave me the right soap to wash myself clean of America, my father, my stepfather, white Jesus, and all of the ignorant small-town" classmates at his Catholic high school.
Witnesses said the former student, Peter Odighizuwa, 45, walked through the school on Jan . 16 , 2002firing a small pistol before classmates tackled him.
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Jodie Lasoff-Licata, a stay-at-home mother from Forest Hills, Queens, who attended her 20-year reunion in June, said she was able to skip the small talk with classmates "because we're far more intimate with each other now than when we were in high school" thanks to Facebook.
Upon my return to school, lice free and feeling great, I was greeted by a small group of classmates who found it amusing to torture me quite extravagantly about my lice baggage.
Scorsese had grown up nearby, and in 1952 he and a small group of classmates made a field trip to the Bowery Savings Bank, where Scorsese's father and grandfather kept their nest eggs.
I remained younger and much smaller than my classmates; to my delight, I could sit toward the back of the crowded classroom and continue to read, undisturbed.
