Perhaps more troubling is that the extra homework load we subject our students to and the adolescent academic stress associated with it not only puts a damper on the after-school fun factor, but may also hurt their intellectual development.
Time Warner Cable is joining with the Coalition for Science After School and FIRST Robotics -- the program created by inventor Dean Kamen, which gave us the "Cougar Cannon" -- to connect one million students with fun after-school activities, like robotics competitions.
You know, you've seen around the country that, you know, programs that are losing resources, and some of the schools are pulling out all their athletic programs and all the extracurriculars that make school fun, because we're -- you know, we don't have the resources to put in the schools, and the thing we want to make sure is that we don't lose teachers.
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And those are also, by the way, the things that will make school more fun.
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When I was 8 years old, I remember attending the Bunker Hill Elementary School Fall Fun Festival.
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"For most children and adolescents, the summer is a time to get a break from school and have fun, " the proposal said.
We now believe that school should be primarily fun and entertaining.
Remember how in grade school, you usually made fun of the people you had crushes on?
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"It's just good relaxed fun, " said a spokesman for School Disco, which also operates in Manchester and Ibiza, and is hoping to attract 40, 000 people to a festival on London's Clapham Common on 13 July.
"It's kind of fun if you have a long day of school to sit down on the couch and play videogames or watch TV, " he says.
There are still school parades, which are so fun, and most kids would probably have more fun at a party, rather than bundling up in coats, and wandering around sometimes in rain, in pursuit of candy they may not ever eat.
High school was the first time that people made fun of me or, worse, ignored me.
While students at Harvard Business School, they created Birchbox, a convenient and fun way for women to discover high-end beauty, grooming, and lifestyle products.
As a child, Mr Botero was sent to bull-fighting school but decided that painting would be safer and more fun.
But I will say I had a lot of fun playing the course a final time with two of my high school buddies.
Sports bloggers in January began poking fun at Turner online from its 14-student high school to its nonprofit organization, "The Big Flat Community Grain Bin, " created to stem population decline.
The shooting school is open to individuals or groups, and is a fun activity for corporate outings.
As easy and fun as it is to talk about morning TV ratings as a middle school student council election, how viewers feel toward Guthrie vs.
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International research tends to find that by the time British children leave primary school they are reading well by international standards, but read less often for fun than those elsewhere.
He has fun as well, as seen in his use of names derived from a girls' boarding school.
For a moment the idealist in me sees cloth diapers, homemade vegetarian meals, riding bikes to school, environmental and international education and I think it would be wonderful, even fun.
Funky Fish Club is a fun, friendly and unpretentious little club that plays soul, funk, jazz, Motown and old-school breaks, but draws the line at cheesy disco.
Instead of gore and guns, the Arcade is filled with quirky fun:Marble Blast Ultra, Bankshot Billiards 2, Mutant Storm Reloaded and nods to the old-school Pong crowd with Joust and the Tetris-like Hexic HD.
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It's a good time to gather your whole family around to make some fun things, and you know, there's a lot of anticipation, you know, right after school starts for kids to get ready for Halloween.
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