Ya, I don't understand why we should aspire to be CA. |
What?? You need to get off this thread because you clearly don't understand how the bus system works. You could split the county into 25 districts (one per HS) and have the same problem because each bus is running the same basic routes within one HS cluster everyday. HS-MS-ES1-ES2 in morning, then HS-MS-ES1-ES2 again in afternoon. The only way to have fewer run slots (and compact the overall schedule) is to have more buses (regardless of the start times order). |
Actually there's another way, which is: reduce the fraction of students who need bus service, by improving walk/bike routes to school and using public transit instead of school buses on public transit routes. |
I just moved to MoCo and am shocked by the late elementary start time! That's going to be a major adjustment. My kids will enjoy the long morning at home, though- I think.
Also, I went to a HS that started at 7:30 and that was just awful. I remember being tired all the time and constantly late. Makes zero sense. |
I went to hs in the 90s and our start time was 7:10. I wasn’t on a cell phone. It was brutal and looking back I strongly believe my hs years and my entire friggin trajectory in life would’ve been better if I didn’t have to wake up by 6am. I won’t do this to my kids. |
+100. Welcome to MCPS. Somethings about MCPS suck but people here hate change and declare any improvements to be impossible. Opposite of a can-do mentality |
+1. It was incredibly common for kids to fall asleep in class. I was moody and depressed because I couldn’t fall asleep before 11pm which meant I only ever got 6.5 hours of sleep on a good night. |
I had this problem too until realized I could set my clock forward to hours and was cured! |
Sucks for kids to wake up so early and it's unnatural. Shame on MCPS for not figuring out how to switch it. Many other school districts have done this and there are studies showing how the kids learning improved. Who is running this place? We go to an area private that starts at a healthy 9am. |
It's shocking! Well not really because they use the same busses they can't all start at 9am. |
Unnatural like in the olden days when people had to rise with the sun etc oh wait that is natural. |
Sunrise this morning was at 7:27 am. If you rise at 7:27 am, you will not be on time for a school day that starts at 7:45 am, even if you live next door to the school. |
How nice for you. This is the Montgomery County Public Schools forum, where the topic of this thread is "MCPS High School 7:45 am for teens is too early." |
Many HS students have to be at their bus stops before the sun rises. |
I agree it's dumb, but MCPS will never figure out how to change it. They just won't. "Too big", not enough creative problem-solvers at central office, etc. It's also terrible for the ES kids like mine who naturally wake up earlier but don't start school until 930am. My sister teaches and sends her kids to school in a district that reversed the schedule and says the change is so much better all around. |