Example sentences of "their child ['s] schooling " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving parents a measure of choice would , it was argued , be more likely to secure their involvement in the school and in their child 's schooling : ‘ They are more likely to support a school they have freely chosen and to give it the loyalty which is so essential if their children are to do the same . ’ |
| 2 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 3 | They suddenly worried about their jobs , or their mortgages , or their children 's schooling . |
| 4 | PARENTS have fewer rights over their children 's schooling under the new Parents ' Charter , says a report out today . |
| 5 | Moreover , all recent evidence suggests a high level of interest among both Afro-Caribbean and Asian parents in their children 's schooling and records high aspirations for their children 's performance ( Tomlinson , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | A number of researchers have investigated parents ' expectation , preferences and choices with regard to their children 's schooling . |
| 7 | How do they view their children 's schooling in the light of their own educational values and practices ? |
| 8 | To supplement , strengthen or , as some think , to contradict the legislation of 1986 , the 1988 Education Reform Act made it possible for parents directly to intervene in their children 's schooling through a complaints procedure ( Maclure 1989:22 — 3 ) : In terms of a market ideology , this gives the consumers ( i.e. the parents , who throughout the Act are seen as surrogate consumers for their sons and daughters ) a chance to act if they believe there is a failure to deliver the curriculum to which they are , by law , entitled . |
| 9 | They say it 's the final straw in a two month saga of staff sickness and lack of supply teachers which has meant vital gaps in their children 's schooling . |