This was only an eighth-grader, barely a teenager, who felt so worthless in this world she would rather not live in it altogether.
Another parent-led coalition, CPS Sick-Out, is asking Chicagoans to call their children in sick on Monday, when the city says it will open for preschoolers through eighth-graders and special-education students.
Among the parents pushing for a speedy reopening through the Chicago Parents Collective is Lisa Mishkin, mother of a sixth-grader and an eighth-grader at Coonley Elementary School.
Catrin Morris, mother of an eighth-grader in the school system who lives in Ward 3, said that if the city delivers on its safety promises and the measures in schools are adequate, it’s time for families to have the option to return.
Success Academy eighth-graders also must pass comprehensives.
On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
Meryl Streep makes an eighth of what Justin Bieber does a year.
She was a beanpole growing up, before gaining 30 pounds after getting her period in eighth grade.
On the third circuit they make up just 17 percent of justices, and on the eighth circuit 18 percent.
He lost the bet on the twenty-eighth question, when a duplicate birthday turned up.
John of Damascus, an important Greek theologian of the eighth century, often cited by Thomas.
In the eighth line we have “bells” seven times repeated in all—bells being taken in their utmost generality, viz., musical action.
On the eighth of the said month it was washed, and another small grain of gold obtained, of the same size as the preceding.
The steam in ordinary working was shut off when the piston had moved from an eighth to a quarter of its stroke.
Then, measured by inhabitants, it was the fifth town in Ireland; now it is the eighth.