"___ these days!"

Usage examples of kids.

PA speakers affixed to the balcony booped loudly, signaling the end of the period, and the kids began to file out of the auditorium, not one of them even looking back at her over their shoulders.

Nerese, is that we had a teacher here, a volunteer no less, local guy, terrific guy, was a very successful television writer out in California, came back to town, came to us, offered to teach a writing class off the cuff, got stood up by the kids three four times in a row before I could make it happen.

I feel like I owe this guy for what he did for the kids here, you know?

Principal Egan finally, finally, after three days of false starts, herded seven students into the faculty lounge, the kids all flat-faced, eyes averted, not a smile in the bunch.

Ray was becoming more and more focused on her and, losing some of his gun-shyness around the kids, he gave them his first clear-eyed look.

Ray thinking how odd it was that these projects kids, witness all their lives to such extremes in human behavior, would be so easily shocked by the slightest breach of teacher decorum.

We went by bus and it took so long to get there I was a old lady with six kids and eight grandchildren by the time we got there.

He also was in the Army and had four kids who are my mother and uncles.

Bondo said gently, still smiling, the kids equally getting off on how Efram had made her laugh.

These were the kids who, in the midst of earth science, gym, algebra, cafeteria stench would manage to knock out a handwritten thirty-page story or a collection of poems, drop it on his desk at the end of class and split.

Anyways Eddie, he was a really strict parent, brooked no bullshit from his kids, so Dub, he was kind of in and out of trouble with his dad on a steady basis.

Miss MacGowan had on more than one occasion nearly gotten her killed by using the example of her deportment as a cudgel to pound the other kids into feeling worse about themselves than they already did.

I was told he drove a truck for Pepsi, drove from five in the morning till three in the afternoon, came home the same time as the kids from school, came home drunk, never said a word to anybody, just emptied his wallet on the dining room table for the, you know, for whatever was needed, then collapsed in his TV chair without ever turning the TV on.

Paulus Hook kids were desperate for passionate teachers, no matter where their true motivations lay.

I get on the train to go to school, go the two stops with a million other kids, get off on the platform, train pulls out and .