For older students, the bus brings GED and college preparatory assistance, anti-bullying and peer mediation classes, and student leadership training.

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They found that lottery winners have 7% lower truancies than losers, and the effect is especially strong for older male students who experience a 21% decrease.

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Chairs made for older and bigger students are being used in middle and elementary schools to comfortably fit overweight and obese students.

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This held true for both traditional college students, teenagers and young adults whose parents often benefited from the credits, and for non-traditional students, typically older students who could take the tax credits themselves.

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And at Thomas Bennett Community College older students organised a football tournament for year seven, where children played for the teams left in the FA Cup.

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Hence the popularity of college fraternities and sororities, where older students often purchase alcohol in bulk for parties and share it with younger members of the society.

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Students tend to be 50 or older for a few reasons.

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As for the twins' older sisters, both are now honor roll students.

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Lucia Regina da Silva, a mother of a fifth grader who survived the attack, said that her daughter told her that older students had covered the bodies of younger students for protection when they heard the gunfire across the hall.

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Older high school students often help tutor or run activities for the younger children, and several members have come back to work for the organization after completing high school and college.

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My classmates and I, being the youngest of the young, remained uniformed college students for the longest period, while those who were only a year or so older went off for officer training and preceded us into those terrifying island battles which marked the last stages of the Pacific war.

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Many of the older students have lived through a period of violence and suffering and have not yet had the opportunity for even a basic education.

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