Mcps High School need to start later

[Anonymous]

It needs to be done. Teens simply need more sleep. LA DC NY and more..all on same page here.
https://apnews.com/article/school-start-times-pandemic-be81b0f5cb2b68fad3ce0a22dfd8ac1f

[Anonymous]

Oh good...this topic again!

[Anonymous]

Tell the Board and the Superintendent

[Anonymous]

Later start times aren’t going to fix Upper Darby High School.

[Anonymous]

No, they don’t.

[Anonymous]

Send your kid to bed earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It needs to be done. Teens simply need more sleep. LA DC NY and more..all on same page here.
https://apnews.com/article/school-start-times-pandemic-be81b0f5cb2b68fad3ce0a22dfd8ac1f

Not this again!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Send your kid to bed earlier.

We just set our clocks forward 2 hours, and it's just like schools are starting later. You should try it.

[Anonymous]

Teens need more sleep and a later start time would help with that, but it would also disrupt the scheduling of other things, impact family life, and cost the school district money, so it’s not changing any time soon. The kids just have to get through it, the way generations before them did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It needs to be done. Teens simply need more sleep. LA DC NY and more..all on same page here.
https://apnews.com/article/school-start-times-pandemic-be81b0f5cb2b68fad3ce0a22dfd8ac1f

It's easy! They can just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

Or, they can just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

Or, what if they just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

But they could just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

If you want high schools to start later, here's what you need to do: figure out how MCPS can get 160,000 students to school and back, every school day, without putting over 100,000 of them on a school bus. School start times in MCPS are a transportation issue.

[Anonymous]

The model proposed in the article has kids technically still starting at 7:30 am, they're just supposed to do so remotely. I think that's a joke and I wouldn't want to trade instructional time for that.

Besides, let's be real, push the start time to 9:00 and teens will just push their bedtime back to take advantage of the later start time. Anything before noon is "early" for teens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teens need more sleep and a later start time would help with that, but it would also disrupt the scheduling of other things, impact family life, and cost the school district money, so it’s not changing any time soon. The kids just have to get through it, the way generations before them did.

My high school started at 8:30. All of the schools started at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teens need more sleep and a later start time would help with that, but it would also disrupt the scheduling of other things, impact family life, and cost the school district money, so it’s not changing any time soon. The kids just have to get through it, the way generations before them did.

No, because kids would get home later and go to bed even later so it will not help at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It needs to be done. Teens simply need more sleep. LA DC NY and more..all on same page here.
https://apnews.com/article/school-start-times-pandemic-be81b0f5cb2b68fad3ce0a22dfd8ac1f

It's easy! They can just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

Or, they can just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

Or, what if they just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

But they could just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

If you want high schools to start later, here's what you need to do: figure out how MCPS can get 160,000 students to school and back, every school day, without putting over 100,000 of them on a school bus. School start times in MCPS are a transportation issue.

Stop making sense and give in to my unreasonable demands. I don't care about all these facts and reasons. I just want schools to start later now that MY KID is in high-school.

[Anonymous]

Before posting please read the extensive study McPS did on this about 5 years ago which resulted in pushing back start times by 20 minutes. I don’t think anything has changed since then.