LOL, none of the predicted improvements ever happened when the high school start times were changed. Changing the middle school start times would be just throwing more money away for no reason. The "research" is bunk. |
This. I bet most folks complaining here will have rising 7th graders. They need to calm themselves down. Don’t mess with what works. Suck it up. |
That is true. It’s time to bring elementary into the discussion. The young kids need to start their learning earlier than 9:00am. After lunch they are done- 4:00 is way too late for them to get out. |
The MS times are terrible and my kids are already done with MS. |
It doesn’t work. FCPS hired a company to look into it and to propose a plan as to how it would work. Let’s see what happens. |
Agree. Almost all those kids on the center buses would need to be shifted to local buses. The only space savings would be kids who became walkers. |
This. It isn’t just two years of terrible times. Many ES kids are going to school from 9:20-4:05. I can tell you the last hour is a wash and kids aren’t learning that much cause they are done. Due to poor boundaries and late buses there are young children getting home at 5pm. Many kids get picked up early just to make it in time for sports/extra curricular activities. So for many kids it is 9 years of terrible school hours. School should fall between 8:00-3:45. There are ways to do this. There are many students at my school alone that could walk/bike to school. They need to look at how they can reduce runs by changing mileage for walkers. They need to get rid of transportation for special programming not at base school such as AAP. They need to pair drivers with close runs/schools. Parents should have to request transportation for the year so they can plan how many seats are available. I think my school could get rid of almost two buses just by changing some stops to walkers. |
Says who? You? |
Nothing will happen….Money wasted. |
Someone posted months ago and makes sense that most likely is the new start times will be rolled out at same time as boundary changes. |
I would love to see the breakdown of chronic absenteeism across grade levels in FCPS. I bet middle school is very high and that has a lot to do with the desire to change the start time. Kids who get in the habit of being chronically absent as middle schoolers when they're old enough to be left home unsupervised won't be retained but they are going to struggle with the content in high school. |
Looks like the maggots are out in full force today. I have several neighbors with kids that were in 7th & 8th last year and they all said their kids were miserable, tired all the time, and never wanted to do schoolwork because they were so tired. And one said it impacted her child's extracurriculars, too, to the point where she dropped travel basketball. |
don't be stupid. |
I'm so tired of the FCPS forum being taken over by political trolls. Stop it now. I prefer it when the real parents post. |
That kid needed an earlier bedtime, better time management, and a heck of a lot more resiliency. |