With kids off school and adults off work, there's a ready-made audience waiting to be entertained.
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Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kinahan said taking burgers off school menus was a premature move.
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This has not been a typical work week as Joshua has been off school for the holidays.
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Neath Port Talbot council's education department said the incident took place off school premises and before the school day had begun.
Mr D'Aloisio took time off school to develop his idea for a smartphone application that offers summaries of existing news stories published on the net.
Jo Lang, a science teacher from Harrow in north-west London, said some youngsters were turned off school because they felt the curriculum had no relevance to them.
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Until now teachers have only been struck off for serious misconduct, for behaviour such as siphoning off school funds or forming an inappropriate relationship with a pupil.
One such child is eight-year-old Lucas Carleton from Liverpool who has been off school for nearly a year and can sleep up to 20 hours per day.
"Now that children are off school they are generally going out to play for longer and later into the evening as the nights are brighter, " said the SDLP councillor.
And still, as I write this, I can hear my kids outside my home office, laughing as they play freeze tag and hide and seek, enjoying another day off school.
In a twist, Hurricane (or super storm) Sandy actually helped drive up Hollywood box office numbers this weekend in the Northeast, where kids were off school on Friday and people over the weekend were seeking entertainment refuge from a very bad week of flooding, power loss and devastation.
Students want to make money off the school's credentials, and the school wants to make money off its students.
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Francis Gilbert, a secondary school teacher for 20 years, agreed permission and insurance paperwork could often put teachers off organising school trips.
None of this means that students shouldn't be cautious when they head off to school.
Mrs Fraser was last seen on 28 April 1998, after waving her two children off to school.
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She was just 10 years old when her father dropped her off at school for the last time.
They wake up, sit down for breakfast, send their kids off to school.
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And if you've ever sent a kid off to school, you've likely included some juice drink at some point.
Thanks to the dominance of the Christian religion, Sunday, for the most part, remains a day off for school sports.
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My husband then finishes morning duties and drops kids off at school, so that I can get to the office early.
Every day, he got up at the same time as his children, had breakfast with them, and dropped them off at school.
When I heard the news of what happened in Newtown, I thought of the routine of sending a child off to school.
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"You see families function in a normal way, where the parents go off to work, the kids go off to school, " she said.
We made an exception for the CR-V SUV from Honda Motor , because we wanted to include a vehicle for singles paying off grad school.
Too many college students go off to school without understanding finances, said Shalonda Jones, a representative of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.
The children started the task, but then went off to school or to work in the fields, and the housewife brought in more buckets.
Syracuse defeated 13th-seeded Montana 81-34, the margin just two points off the school record for the largest in the tournament, then outlasted 12th-seeded California 66-60.
Once your child has gone off to school, there are additional ways to save on education, particularly by paying attention when filing your taxes .
Syracuse defeated 13th-seeded Montana 81-34, the margin just two points off the school record for the largest in the tournament, then outlasted 12th-seeded California 66-60 to advance.
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