Why is middle school so early?

[Anonymous]

It doesn't make sense , most people don't go to work this early

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't make sense , most people don't go to work this early

Feel free to read the multi page post that’s on this page a few threads down.

[Anonymous]

Are you new to life, OP?

[Anonymous]

You can thank a group of MS and HS parents lobbying for this change circa 2014.

[Anonymous]

And I realize it was earlier than 2014: we didn’t want our DD, then 12 standing on the corner of our busy neighborhood entrance often solo in the dark. One of us drove her daily if we didn’t idle at the bus stop.

[Anonymous]

How is "when people go to work" relevant to anything at all?

[Anonymous]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1078605.page

Still on the first page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't make sense , most people don't go to work this early

Because it is only two years and one school has to be early to make the buses work. It used to be the HS, but now it is MS.

[Anonymous]

Most healthy, productive people do get up early. If you want to get your 7-10hrs of exercise a week, and be at work on time, you need to get up by 5am or 6 at the latest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't make sense , most people don't go to work this early

Because it is only two years and one school has to be early to make the buses work. It used to be the HS, but now it is MS.

It is because the County is too big and cannot develop schedules that work effectively for the various age groups while providing for busses and the like. The bell schedules, the weather policies, the Frankenstein yearly schedules, the boundary issues, the over crowding even when near by schools have lots of space, are all because the county is too big. It should be broken down into smaller counties so it can run more efficiently.

Why can't the kids at Langston Hughes ride the same bus as the kids for South Lakes? You can see the schools from across the way. The busses for SLHS are not full and LHMS kids would have a more reasonable start time. I don't get why my kid who will go to SL is slated for Carson and not Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes is closer and he would know more of his classmates when he goes to high school.

FCPS is too big and it ends up leading to inefficiencies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most healthy, productive people do get up early. If you want to get your 7-10hrs of exercise a week, and be at work on time, you need to get up by 5am or 6 at the latest.

I get up at 6:30 and exercise in the afternoon. I only get up at 6:30 because my child in ES gets up then and I like spending the morning with him. I still get in 8 hours at work and 45-60 minutes of exercise most days of the week. And we get our kid to activities and lead some of those activities. We choose to live close to where we work and have jobs with some flexibility. And then there are the parents who work from home and the parents who stay at home. I would guess that there are plenty of people who are not getting up at 5 or 6 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't make sense , most people don't go to work this early

Because it is only two years and one school has to be early to make the buses work. It used to be the HS, but now it is MS.

This, in a nutshell. Plus: Grades in high school count much more for life than MS grades do. HS is when students' records are what lays the groundwork for college or vocation or whatever they'll do next after HS. HS students need the best possible conditions for success and that includes not being the earliest risers on the earliest buses at a point in life where "just go to bed early" is NOT a solution (Children's Hospital doctors did presentations for FCPS showing that teens cannot necessarily go to sleep early--there's a biological component to teens being awake later).

It is not fun for MS students. But MS is two years and HS is four and someone has to be early. Better that it not be HS students. All the parents on the other thread whining about how it's not fair will change their tunes when their MS kids get to HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't make sense , most people don't go to work this early

Because it is only two years and one school has to be early to make the buses work. It used to be the HS, but now it is MS.

It is because the County is too big and cannot develop schedules that work effectively for the various age groups while providing for busses and the like. The bell schedules, the weather policies, the Frankenstein yearly schedules, the boundary issues, the over crowding even when near by schools have lots of space, are all because the county is too big. It should be broken down into smaller counties so it can run more efficiently.

Why can't the kids at Langston Hughes ride the same bus as the kids for South Lakes? You can see the schools from across the way. The busses for SLHS are not full and LHMS kids would have a more reasonable start time. I don't get why my kid who will go to SL is slated for Carson and not Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes is closer and he would know more of his classmates when he goes to high school.

FCPS is too big and it ends up leading to inefficiencies.

100% all of this. Frost and Woodson are right next to each other and could also share buses. This is the advantage to Lake Braddock and Robinson- they middle school kids follow the high school schedule. I hate the early hour and the only group it serves is the school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't make sense , most people don't go to work this early

School doesn't care about work.

[Anonymous]

It could be worse and be ES. My coworker in Loudoun Co puts her kindergartner on the bus at 6:50 a.m.