Howard and Anne Arundel delays high school start time to healthier times. Will MCPS follow?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course, there are pros and cons in every scenario. You need to get your priorities straight. If you are mostly concerned about teenage health, depression, etc you can make starting HS later a priority and work around that. If not, then no point to discuss.

+100000

BOE does not care even a bit about mental health of teens. It's a pointless discussion.

Anyone caring about teens mental heath would have flipped it long time back like some counties have done.

Mental health is not the BOE's problem. It's a parenting problem. I care about my child's mental health and they already have a full schedule and pushing start time back means they cannot do things they'd enjoy. Clearly you care more about your needs than other kids needs who may be different from yours. If your kids have mental health issues, get them therapist.

I am a mental health professional with kids in ES, lol.

Try to educate yourself a bit about how teens sleep cycles are different.

I am educated in it as well. Maybe if you were a better mental health professional these kids wouldn't have these issues. It would be a disaster for my kid. Teens need to be prepared for the real world. Making a later start time will just have them go to bed later. My kid has sports at 3:45 for an hour an a half. So, by the time they do that and homework, eat, and some days another activity its easily 11 PM before everything is done, sometimes midnight. Pushing it back would make them go to bed an hour or two later or have to get up even earlier to do their schoolwork so the suggestion makes not sense except for maybe someone like you who doesn't value sports, work, extra curricular activities.

Are you? Yours answers don't reflect that. Try to read up how sleep cycles changes for 80-90% of teens.

You can do sports at different times . You are making a case for why entire student body should suffer because your kid has to do sports at XYZ time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is too big. Changing times is too hard and disruptive. Plus sports, how on earth could the kids practice? There's a reason our teams do better than the districts with late start times.

Oh dear! Let’s get all the kids up early because sports.

Yes, schools should cater to rich and wealthy white parents doing sports.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course, there are pros and cons in every scenario. You need to get your priorities straight. If you are mostly concerned about teenage health, depression, etc you can make starting HS later a priority and work around that. If not, then no point to discuss.

+100000

BOE does not care even a bit about mental health of teens. It's a pointless discussion.

Anyone caring about teens mental heath would have flipped it long time back like some counties have done.

Mental health is not the BOE's problem. It's a parenting problem. I care about my child's mental health and they already have a full schedule and pushing start time back means they cannot do things they'd enjoy. Clearly you care more about your needs than other kids needs who may be different from yours. If your kids have mental health issues, get them therapist.

I am a mental health professional with kids in ES, lol.

Try to educate yourself a bit about how teens sleep cycles are different.

They’ll manage, just like millions of teenagers have done before them and millions will manage after them.

Millions used to be slave , people were managing. Women did not use to vote, people were managing. Point is not to draw parallel with activity, but it's ridiculous point you are raising about people managing.

Who cares what used to be done. If we can make something better, we should.

If one decision makes it collectively better for entire student body then decisions should be taken thinking about entire student body. If it makes it worse collectively then decisions shouldn't be taken to change. It's as simple as that. People used to manage is a weird way to think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is too big. Changing times is too hard and disruptive. Plus sports, how on earth could the kids practice? There's a reason our teams do better than the districts with late start times.

Oh dear! Let’s get all the kids up early because sports.

It's weird, isn't it?

Less than 5% students are in HS sports but MCPS schedule should be driven by that tiny wealthy minority.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is too big. Changing times is too hard and disruptive. Plus sports, how on earth could the kids practice? There's a reason our teams do better than the districts with late start times.

Oh dear! Let’s get all the kids up early because sports.

It's weird, isn't it?

Less than 5% students are in HS sports but MCPS schedule should be driven by that tiny wealthy minority.

I'm personally more concerned about how these choices impact younger children since HS students are a minority of students.

Anyway, this matter has been discussed to death and resolved, there's no perfect answer, but the current approach is the least bad choice.