Petition: Later MCPS school start times

[Anonymous]

Sign the petition!

[Anonymous]

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/mcps-board-and-superintendent-please-wake-up-to#comments

[Anonymous]

My kids in high school and it’s ridiculous!

They wasted over 5 million dollars on these studies about 10 years ago only to start HS 20min later. They aren’t doing that all over again.

My DD started at 7:45am which is fine. My first bell was 7:01am

[Anonymous]

that was a decade ago! if state mandated testing requirements can change every so often so should assessment of school start times.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sign the petition!

No need to bother. The matter was already settled.

Had not been settled, PP. The current petition. Not from your decade ago times.

Has something changed from before? Any new ideas that haven't already been considered and rejected? If not, then yes, it has been settled.

Still more evidence that adolescents need to get up later.

Or parents do their jobs and enforce an earlier bedtime.

[Anonymous]

And what about afterschool activities? Sports, clubs, recitals, etc.

If they swap ES and HS school starting times, then a basketball doubleheader game would end at 11 pm. And a school musical that usually starts at 7 would start at.. what, 9? Not gonna happen. So those of you complaining that little Aiden and Braiden are sleep-deprived might want to try and take their phones away so that they don't waste time and go to sleep at a reasonable hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And what about afterschool activities? Sports, clubs, recitals, etc.

If they swap ES and HS school starting times, then a basketball doubleheader game would end at 11 pm. And a school musical that usually starts at 7 would start at.. what, 9? Not gonna happen. So those of you complaining that little Aiden and Braiden are sleep-deprived might want to try and take their phones away so that they don't waste time and go to sleep at a reasonable hour.

Give priority to a musical or a sports double header over the law to be in school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sign the petition!

No need to bother. The matter was already settled.

Had not been settled, PP. The current petition. Not from your decade ago times.

Has something changed from before? Any new ideas that haven't already been considered and rejected? If not, then yes, it has been settled.

Still more evidence that adolescents need to get up later.

Or parents do their jobs and enforce an earlier bedtime.

Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what about afterschool activities? Sports, clubs, recitals, etc.

If they swap ES and HS school starting times, then a basketball doubleheader game would end at 11 pm. And a school musical that usually starts at 7 would start at.. what, 9? Not gonna happen. So those of you complaining that little Aiden and Braiden are sleep-deprived might want to try and take their phones away so that they don't waste time and go to sleep at a reasonable hour.

Give priority to a musical or a sports double header over the law to be in school?

So, because you don’t allow sports or activities other parents should be as selfish as you and refuse them too?

[Anonymous]

The group, and the individuals behind this movement, are selfish and entitled.

Believe it or not, there are many families in Montgomery County that need their older teens home after school to watch little ones (ES students), because they are working. This is why they cannot just swap ES and HS start times.

And there aren't enough busses, nor bus drivers, to have everyone just start later. They don't even have enough for all ESs to start at the same time, which is why we have 2 different start times for ES students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The group, and the individuals behind this movement, are selfish and entitled.

Believe it or not, there are many families in Montgomery County that need their older teens home after school to watch little ones (ES students), because they are working. This is why they cannot just swap ES and HS start times.

And there aren't enough busses, nor bus drivers, to have everyone just start later. They don't even have enough for all ESs to start at the same time, which is why we have 2 different start times for ES students.

Also, many students have jobs after school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sign the petition!

No need to bother. The matter was already settled.

Had not been settled, PP. The current petition. Not from your decade ago times.

Has something changed from before? Any new ideas that haven't already been considered and rejected? If not, then yes, it has been settled.

Still more evidence that adolescents need to get up later.

Or parents do their jobs and enforce an earlier bedtime.

Bless your heart.

I'm sorry parenting is so hard for you. Maybe hire a night nanny.

[Anonymous]

Any correlation with lack of quality teen sleep and increase in drug usage, crimes committed by juveniles, digestive issues among teens etc etc...? Sociologists, pediatricians - where you at?

[Anonymous]

The biology of the teen sleep cycle hasn’t changed. So why are we all up in arms about changing the start time? This would require society as a whole to change because it affects traffic patterns, side gigs for teachers and coaches, extra curriculars, jobs for teens, supervision of elem kids…it goes in and on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biology of the teen sleep cycle hasn’t changed. So why are we all up in arms about changing the start time? This would require society as a whole to change because it affects traffic patterns, side gigs for teachers and coaches, extra curriculars, jobs for teens, supervision of elem kids…it goes in and on

You're right, the biology hasn't change. But our understanding of all the negative consequences on teens is growing study by study - all of which show the value of later start times on adolescents.

Scientific literature teems with support for later start times:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28670711/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36864696/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27855730/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29157638/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35593065/

"Conclusions: There is converging evidence that later SSTs (school start times) are associated with better overall developmental outcomes, longer sleep duration, and less negative mood. More research needs to consider student and school characteristics to obtain reliable estimates related to possible differences by sex, race, school size, percent free/reduced lunch, and percent minority."

But feel free to ignore inconvenient science.