What a weird comment. The largest middle schools in DC all start will after 8am. |
+1. All the Loudoun ones are 8:30+ as well. My LCPS middle schooler sleeps about 10pm-7am, so 9 hours. I wish it was more but she can’t sleep and stays up reading. |
Most of the time the schedule is based on when facilities are available, not just a coach’s preference. |
FCPS middles start at 7:30. my kid's bus picks up at 6:30, so she's up at 5:45. it's hell. |
I have posted a few times on this thread about my 13 yo's bedtime. It's self-imposed. It's not an order. But why would it matter if it was? Some families work better setting a boundary for sleeping-- you might set one for something else. Live and let live. |
how can you feel good about this? bc he's 14 he no longer needs parenting? ugh, this is what's wrong with this generation -- shitty parents. |
Our middle school starts at 7:30 (ridiculous IMO but seems to be common). High school starts at a more sensible 8:30. |
About 8 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. They sleep when they’re tired, no bedtime since they were 6, always up by sunrise 🙄. |
The parents with athletes who are letting them get less sleep are foolish. Studies show the more sleep a kid gets, the bigger and better their potential is in success at their sport. You are stifling their physical and mental growth capacity by shortchanging their sleep during these critical years.
We protect our teens' sleep at all costs: no late dinners, parties, games/practices, certainly no socializing/being on the phone late. If your kid truly prioritizes the sport they love, they should have the sense (or parents who educate them) about how critical sleep is (among other things like nutrition). |
My FCPS kid has to leave for the bus at 6:45. He gets up at 6 and has to be in bed at 9:45. It's not enough sleep, but his baseball practices often go til 9. It's easy to say "just don't do it", but if he misses practices, he doesn't play on the weekend.
The real issue is having bus pickups at 6:45 for 12-14 year olds. Their natural sleep rhythms really don't allow for this. Glad it's only 2 years, but it's a pivotal 2 years in terms of growth. |
Huh. NP. So my 14 year old kid gets up at 630am to be out the door by about 720am. He walks to school. Our practice is the phone goes away at 9pm (both turns off and needs to be charging downstairs) and he's expected to be in his room doing something quietly. Sometimes that's sleeping. Sometimes he's not tired and he reads a book. Sometime he re-organizes his closet or just messes around in his room. Whatever just be quiet. I don't think a 14 year old needs a strict lights out bed time like a little kid needs and in fact, I think that's weird. Do you want someone turning out the light and making you lay there if you're not tired yet? At what age does the kid get any agency? |
Up at 5:45, usually asleep by 10:00, except on one day where she has an EC that runs late, and she's in bed by 10:45. Cannot wait for HS, where the start time is a whole 40 minutes later. |
My 12YO is supposed to be in bed at 9:30 and lights out at 10. She's generally pretty close. She gets up at 7:15/7:20. Out the door at 8am for school which starts at 8:20. Seems about right because she gets up at the same time on weekends without an alarm. Funny enough when we sleep trained her when she was an infant we aimed for a wake-up around 7am and she's still sticking to the schedule. |
My 6th grader is usually in bed 815/830 but she reads until 915. This is the only time of day she reads so it is what it is. Light out at 915. If I had to guess she’s probably asleep between 930-945. She gets up at 7am with an alarm, she’s definitely asleep until the alarm goes off but doesn’t fight us about getting up and ready.
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lolol! no, all public middle schools do not start at that time. Mine starts at 845. |