The move is symptomatic of truly bad management and is yet another argument for giving parents true control over schools via vouchers, scholarships or charter schools (where teachers and parents start a new institution, free of bureaucratic rules and regulations).
Finally, Kids offers a wealth of infotainment and games in a kid-friendly interface that parents can control and monitor.
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PeeWee also includes its proprietary security suite on each laptop, giving parents full control of how and when their children use the laptop.
Particularly worth reading is the chapter on school taxes: Court-imposed school financing "reforms" have actually undermined quality because parents lose control of their local schools.
Instructors urge parents to control their child's car usage once they get a license and to have them practice driving at night and in the rain.
Parents are not safe either: the Crime and Disorder Bill also introduces parental-responsibility orders, which would allow the courts to force parents to control their children.
Knowing that a child was susceptible to middle ear infections because of a family history of the condition would allow parents to control the child's environment, reducing its chances of becoming ill, he said.
The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids' privacy protections and give parents greater control over the personal information that websites and online services may collect from children under 13.
For instance, Manzoor Bahadur, who runs a large clothing retailer, complains that parents lose control of their children when their youngsters learn English, and says that children who spend time at school in Pakistan do no worse (and sometimes better) than those who stay in Bradford.
The router is becoming the hub of the smart home allowing parents to control their kids' screen time, ensuring streaming media devices get the bandwidth they need for top video quality, giving consumers an easy way to store and serve up music and video and much more.
Rather than responding that the FCC doesn't really have any authority over this sort of thing, or that ultimately it's up to parents to control what their kids are exposed to (we don't have the government "suggesting" or mandating that ISPs prevent kids from accessing porn at least not yet), the industry caved.
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And most of all I loved that Swedish parents are in control of state education municipalities can't close small rural schools against the wishes of local parents in the name of efficiency, for example, because parents would simply threaten to open their own schools.
Parents can customize control settings, from capping the amount little Jimmy can spend on toys in a month or receiving emails to approve or deny the charge every time Jenny picks up a new pair of earrings.
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Parents are able to control the device from a simple, custom-designed smartphone app.
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The product offers a fun and educational online experience for kids that also gives parents the information and control they want.
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Houston Tejas, a fave of those fatty-city lists is trying to better that rep via a new system that allows parents to track and control what their kids eat.
Peter Clark, chairman of the National Code and Number Change steering group, said the new prefixes would give parents and employers greater control over certain telephone services like sex lines.
These partnerships shelter all manner of assets--stock, real estate, cash--with the parents usually remaining in control as general partners while giving the kids assets in the form of limited partnership units.
Kemery recommended that parents try other pest-control tactics before resorting to pesticide use in the home or garden.
We want to give parents choice by giving them control over education funding.
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The growing charter school movement is a heartening sign that America's parents will eventually win back control of our schools.
This allows home network administrators, who are often busy parents, to see and control home Internet usage, even when they are away.
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Our aging parents needs some form of control and we may have to be that control, just as we were with stubborn kids when we were raising them.
The Star reported comments from online message boards where parents claim Milbury was out of control.
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But the new survey found that single parents who reported feeling more in control of their lives tended to be those whose financial circumstances had improved.
Students, parents and activists opposed to state control in Newark often say the state's nearly 20-year reign of control shows that the experiment has been a failure.
As far as targeting parents goes, it is all very well to try to target the parents of young children to try to get them to do things in different ways, but it is very difficult satisfactorily to punish parents who won't keep control of their children.
Our prefrontal control systems are the sensible parents of our inner 3-year-olds.
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Seems parents get all the responsibly and no control.
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