Sentence examples for troubled pupils from inspiring English sources

To complicate life further, she also develops a maternal crush on one of the more troubled pupils in her class.

The summer programme alone, for more than 200,000 of the most troubled pupils, has a bigger enrolment than all of Philadelphia's schools.Could any organisation this big succeed?

The grandparents converted their ten-bedroom home in Hatton, Warwickshire into a school for troubled pupils and have since helped 20 youngsters recover from torment, with many going on to college.

Academies have already been reformed to force them to follow the basics of the national curriculum, to work with other local schools on behaviour partnerships for troubled pupils and ministers now make it clear that they are expected to work collaboratively in their area instead of as private schools, in isolation.

Most schools tried to hold on to troubled pupils, she said, but a minority excluded on "a whim".

Special classes for troubled pupils need to improve as many are seen as "dumping grounds" by staff, the children's commissioner has said.

Now she has written a novel in five acts about what happens when a grieving theatre director is given a job teaching troubled teenagers at a pupil referral unit in Edinburgh, and decides to read Greek plays with them.

As the principal, he faces real obstacles to good education -- the necessity of hiring uncertified teachers, the sometimes troubled home lives of his pupils and the state and city pressure to keep test scores up, up, up.