Petition: Later MCPS school start times

[Anonymous]

There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

Don't leave us hanging! How?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

Don't leave us hanging! How?

Did you read ideas mentioned here and try to come up with any of you disagree on ones proposed? Come back here when you do. -DP and not a pediatrician

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

+100.

- signed HS teacher. I hate first period because kids are half asleep or come in late. Period 2 onwards is so much better

[Anonymous]

If you're a teacher, get your teacher colleagues to sign! Let's get 25,000 MCPS employees to sign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're a teacher, get your teacher colleagues to sign! Let's get 25,000 MCPS employees to sign.

Just so some lazy parent can get the county to parent for them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

Don't leave us hanging! How?

Did you read ideas mentioned here and try to come up with any of you disagree on ones proposed? Come back here when you do. -DP and not a pediatrician

I have. It doesn't seem like you have, though. Every proposal has major problems.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

Don't leave us hanging! How?

Did you read ideas mentioned here and try to come up with any of you disagree on ones proposed? Come back here when you do. -DP and not a pediatrician

I have. It doesn't seem like you have, though. Every proposal has major problems.

There is the poster again, the one saying: Problems, problems but I'm not smart enough to come up with anything all I know is to complain and criticize. Go somewhere else you are not wanted here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're a teacher, get your teacher colleagues to sign! Let's get 25,000 MCPS employees to sign.

Timing is everything. The board looked at the costs in past years and decided that bell time changes were not affordable. What about MCPS being $50 million in the red this fiscal year (which ends in August) makes you think that the BOE is going to go for bell times changes any time soon? Instructional and transportation resources are fiscally frozen right now. And the chaos in the system with a super refusing to leave after being asked to do so means that few decisions will be made.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

+100.

- signed HS teacher. I hate first period because kids are half asleep or come in late. Period 2 onwards is so much better

I’ve worked in high schools with 7:30am start times and 9am start times. 1st period always contains sleepy kids. Pushing start times back won’t change a thing.

Perhaps students shouldn’t stay up on their phones until 2am. I can’t tell you how many emails I get sent at 1:30am and 3am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

Really, can you explain to me how? There are days that mine doesn't get home from school util after 9 and then there is still homework. Other days it's 6 or 7. Or, they come home and have to go to activities. So, they are often up till 11, sometimes 12 by the time they do homework, eat and shower. That's not including anything else (but we take care of that). So, because other people's spoiled kids cannot manage it or go to bed early, what, I should tell my kids no to exploring their interests at schools? Most ped's give bad parenting advice. This only works for younger kids or those in few activities. All it does is push bedtime even later.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

+100.

- signed HS teacher. I hate first period because kids are half asleep or come in late. Period 2 onwards is so much better

I’ve worked in high schools with 7:30am start times and 9am start times. 1st period always contains sleepy kids. Pushing start times back won’t change a thing.

Perhaps students shouldn’t stay up on their phones until 2am. I can’t tell you how many emails I get sent at 1:30am and 3am.

Exactly. The voice of reason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

Don't leave us hanging! How?

Did you read ideas mentioned here and try to come up with any of you disagree on ones proposed? Come back here when you do. -DP and not a pediatrician

I have. It doesn't seem like you have, though. Every proposal has major problems.

There is the poster again, the one saying: Problems, problems but I'm not smart enough to come up with anything all I know is to complain and criticize. Go somewhere else you are not wanted here.

You're the one that wants this done. You claim there's a way to do it. Why won't you tell everyone how?

The problem is that every proposed solution either hurts a lot of families in different ways and/or costs a lot of money.

Presumably that's why you don't want to say how it can be done. Once you do, it will be torn apart.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely a way to have later start times and fit in after school activities! -signed a Pediatrician

+100.

- signed HS teacher. I hate first period because kids are half asleep or come in late. Period 2 onwards is so much better

Please tell us how you can fit in activities, homework, shower and dinner with a later start time?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the down county consortium should test this approach and use a later start time at one of the DCC high schools. The density of ES is high enough here that you might even be able to free up the right number of busses by give people a choice between a late vs early ES. This would let MCPS test the idea without forcing anyone into it. If enough people want it, you can grow the number of schools doing it and if it causes issues or no one actually wants to live with what a later hs start time means, they can discontinue it.

How about HS 9:00a-3:45p. Is that really too late to start practice for athletic teens?

Our swim starts at 3:45, so yes, slight issue. And, there are morning practices as well. Our school swim practices start either early in the AM or 3 PM. Not including sports and other activities for our kids. Plus homework. That 45 minutes after school is a big deal. And, many parents need older kids to watch younger kids after school. How would that work when there are not enough after school spots as it is?

My kid goes to (private) HS 845-315, it works just fine. Other school systems and communities have figured this out.

Sure, if you're willing to give MCPS enough money to pay for twice as manybuses and drivers.

many school systems have HS start last so the adolescent brain, with its shifted circadian rhythm, starts later, too.

And many kids are fine with the earlier start time. Here’s an idea. Enforce bedtime. Be a parent.

I’m not sure why you can’t grasp this, but their circadian rhythm prevents them from falling asleep early. They can start laying in bed at whatever time they want, but they won’t necessarily sleep. You can’t overcome biology by ordering someone who isn’t sleepy to sleep.

Stop making excuses. If they are tired they will sleep. Or, they can nap when they get home. You should like a lazy parent.

I’m sorry you don’t comprehend the situation.

Comprehend what? Your kids are spoiled and refuse to go to bed and you prefer to not parent and find ways to help the. By making up nonsense and punish the rest of or kid who are in activities, working, etc which yours are not so no excuse why they cannot go to bed. Be a parent and enforce bedtime.

Not the PP, but how exactly does this punish other kids? All get to sleep later and no one would be cutting activities. You do realize other places start school later their kids are fine.

First off, they may not sleep later. And, how do you propose it works. Sports, for example outside of MCPS all share facilities and there is only so much time/space. As it is the HS kids swim at 3 PM (and it's a mad rush to get them to the pool when school does not let out till 3:30 PM). Mine is in multiple activities outside and inside school and there would be no way to fit it all in without them going to bed much later, which then defeats the purpose. They aren't getting more sleep.