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Sierra Preparatory Academy enrolling What to wear to court Most people have other clothes. You never want to cause students in grades 6 through 9 never attended a court a delay in your proceeding because of on the town
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Edward Denny and expensive homes his wife, Yuliya Yatsyshina, are the co-founders of Sierra Preparatory Academy in Mesa.
ture the community feel of a smaller school. More recently, Denny was talking with his wife Yuliya Yatsyshina, whom he met during a trip to Kazakhstan, about what he should do when they returned to the states. When he told Yatsyshina that he had thought about starting his own school, Denny said she offered her full support and the two of them cofounded the school. “Sierra Preparatory Academy will be by the teachers for the teachers. Here, the teachers are the administrators, and there is no way we could do this if the school wasn’t small,” Denny said. “I don’t have visions of an empire. Ultimately, I just want to know all of the students’ names and parents’ names.” Denny said that the school is hosting regular open houses for interested parents and students. Anyone who cannot make a scheduled open house is welcome to contact him to set up an appointment, he said. Denny said enrollment is going very well so far, and that he and the rest of the staff are looking forward to the first day of school with great anticipation. Sierra Preparatory Academy is located at 7464 E. Main St. in Mesa. For more information, call (480) 440-0238 or visit sierraprepaz.org.
hearing, let alone been a party to a case. My clients often ask me what they should wear. As a general rule Joshua R. Boyle you should dress professionally. For men this would usually mean a button-up shirt, slacks, dress shoes and a tie. For women this would mean a nice shirt or blouse, a skirt that is at least as long as your knees and dress shoes. Many people do not have dress clothes and cannot afford them. For some of my clients, their nicest clothes consisted of a Polo, jeans and sneakers. If that is the best you have then you should have no shame in wearing that to court. One client had to come straight from his blue-collar job in his dirty work clothes. At the beginning of the case, I provided a little explanation to the judge about why he was dressed the way he was and both my client and the judge appreciated that. From personally speaking with judges, they generally do not “judge” you based on your clothes. However, many of them do take issue if you dress immodestly or in an attempt to draw attention to yourself. At least one judge will stop the proceedings if someone is dressed inappropriately and require them to wear a large T-shirt over their biz box
how you or one of your supporters is dressed. You also should consider not dressing too nicely. If you dress in an expensive European suit or are wearing expensive jewelry, it can certainly have an effect on the judge or jury if they are considering whether you need or deserve a monetary award in a case. Besides, what you wear to court, also consider your overall appearance. While tattoos, piercings and facial hair are much more common and accepted today, there are still many people who associate those things with negative connotations and those people might be your judge or jury. All that being said, do not get too concerned about what you wear to court. You generally are not going to make or break your case based on what you wear. The basic facts of your case, your honesty, and your legal representation will have a far greater impact on the final outcome rather than what you are wearing.
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Joshua R. Boyle is a partner at Rowley Chapman & Barney. His practice centers on any family law-related issues. Boyle earned his bachelor’s degree from ASU in 2003, and his law degree from the same university in 2008.
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Sierra Preparatory Academy, a tuition-free, public charter school that features an enhanced liberal arts and sciences curriculum, will open for the first day of the 2015 to 2016 school year on Aug. 12. Edward Denny, co-founder and headmaster, said the school is enrolling students who are in grades six through nine. Over the course of the next few years, Denny said Sierra Preparatory Academy will expand its enrollment through grade 12. “We will build our enrollment year over year and we offer a progressive curriculum,” he said. Sierra Preparatory Academy will feature class sizes of 22 students or fewer. The school will feature programs like a state-of-the-art Maker Space, natural philosophy classes, Arabic and Russian language programs and the Great Books curriculum, which Denny said features a variety of literary and scientific canons. “The idea of Great Books is that students read the original material, not filtered ideas or textbooks. That way, in combination with their peers and teachers, they can discuss the ideas of the books on their own terms,” Denny said. The school will also offer an advanced four-year writing program, integrated fine arts classes, and a focus on discovery learning and the Socratic Method, Denny said. Denny said the decision to open Sierra Preparatory Academy was a “lengthy evolution” that started during his time teaching at Tempe Preparatory Academy. “I knew all of the students and families, but as the school grew larger something got lost. The quality of education was still wonderful but the community atmosphere got lost to a great degree,” Denny said. About six years ago, Denny and other teachers spoke about their desire to somehow and someday recap-
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