With twenty-seven community volunteers making a commitment to Paris Elementary students, the Helping Hounds Volunteer Program was a great success. Please click here to view the newspaper article published in the April 6th edition of The Bourbon County Citizen.
Definition of practical for Students. 1  1 : of or relating to real action rather than ideas or thought practical matters. 2  2 : capable of being put to use : reasonable to do or use practical advice Those shoes are nice, but these are more practical. 3  3 : tending to act according to reason and logic Beezus, always practical, changed her mind.
Beyond this general framework, courts consider such practical matters as the child's age, maturity and special needs, the parent's physical proximity to the child's primary residence and, where appropriate, the child's own preference.