Alfonso Martinez had dropped his 17-year-old daughter off at Grant High early Friday, so he figured that Roxana had just missed morning roll call when he got the robocall from the school alerting him that his child was tardy or absent.
Solicitors are shifty, tradesman are tardy, facebookers are fickle, Children displaced by violence in the Central African Republic face great risks BANGUI, Central African Republic, 21 March 2014 – On a sunny Sunday morning in early January, the tones of reggae-flavoured Christmas carols filter over the Boy-Rabe monastery complex in the capital of the Central African Republic.
Extra fees for late pick-up at child care are common, as is docked pay for tardy arrival at a second job.
I came to notice the contrast with classrooms, where often students are treated as children, scrutinized and marked "tardy" or berated for seeing to their bodily needs, where the overseeing adults are largely regarded as adversaries rather than as partners.
Bieber, photographed wearing two watches during a weekend partying in London, infuriated parents who demanded refunds after the singer's tardy appearance forced them to lead sobbing children to the exits.
Only children of color have been tardy to school because they could not hail a taxi when the subway was down.
The average tardiness of those who were tardy fell from 16.75 min (5.59) to 2.0 min.
Plus, young mothers are "pushed out" of school when child care or health issues cause repeat tardies or absences.
In all sentences, the result is the same: children, in the school office, signing themselves in tardy — again.
A brief shift to Isolde's point of view is refreshing yet tardy, leaving us to wish that Swann, whose previous novels include "Flower Children," had paid more attention to Isolde's tale and less to Daisy and Leonarda's comparative frivolity.
