Mcps High School need to start later

[Anonymous]

Be a parent and get the lights out by 930. You run the household, not them.

[Anonymous]

WE went to school 8:30 til 3pm. All schools did. We all walked, even living 2 miles away. I agree with lights out early.

[Anonymous]

So dumb. Every study shows HS kids need more sleep and lack of is detrimental. Say what you want but other school districts and entire states are doing this with studied success. You probably let your kid fall asleep with their cell phones on their chests too. Good luck with that!

[Anonymous]

I graduated from MCPS in the late 80’s and my kids get up for HS around the same time I did. Mine get up around 5:45am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I graduated from MCPS in the late 80’s and my kids get up for HS around the same time I did. Mine get up around 5:45am.

Why 5:45 am? SO EARLY!

[Anonymous]

MCPS is way too big to make a change like that, and there's not enough buses. Send your kid to bed earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WE went to school 8:30 til 3pm. All schools did. We all walked, even living 2 miles away. I agree with lights out early.

I caught my bus to HS at 7:30 am. School got out at 2:35 pm. I usually stayed late for ECs, so I didn't get home until 4:30-4:45. Is it really that different today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I graduated from MCPS in the late 80’s and my kids get up for HS around the same time I did. Mine get up around 5:45am.

Why 5:45 am? SO EARLY!

Not the PP but that's around the time I got up in HS too. We only had one bathroom and everyone had to cycle through and then eat breakfast, makeup/hair, etc. Had to be out the door at 645.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be a parent and get the lights out by 930. You run the household, not them.

How do you force your kids to fall asleep at 930 though? We have a no-screens-after-dinner rule, except if absolutely needed for homework, but they really struggle to fall asleep at that time. What's your secret? Melatonin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is way too big to make a change like that, and there's not enough buses. Send your kid to bed earlier.

It's like the DCUM version of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1.

DCUM poster #1: I can send children to their beds at 9.
DCUM poster #2: Why, so can I, or so can any mom (or dad); but do they go when you do send them there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be a parent and get the lights out by 930. You run the household, not them.

How do you force your kids to fall asleep at 930 though? We have a no-screens-after-dinner rule, except if absolutely needed for homework, but they really struggle to fall asleep at that time. What's your secret? Melatonin?

They fall asleep when they do but we send ours to bed between 9:30-10:30 except a rare occasion with homework but they have lots of after school stuff. I don't care if they lay in bed awake but we send them and enforce it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So dumb. Every study shows HS kids need more sleep and lack of is detrimental. Say what you want but other school districts and entire states are doing this with studied success. You probably let your kid fall asleep with their cell phones on their chests too. Good luck with that!

Even if you do a later start time that doesn't necessarily mean more sleep. They just go to be dl later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So dumb. Every study shows HS kids need more sleep and lack of is detrimental. Say what you want but other school districts and entire states are doing this with studied success. You probably let your kid fall asleep with their cell phones on their chests too. Good luck with that!

Even if you do a later start time that doesn't necessarily mean more sleep. They just go to be dl later.

That's why just setting the clock forward 2 hours works so well. Seriously, try it! It's just like starting later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teens need more sleep and a later start time would help with that, but it would also disrupt the scheduling of other things, impact family life, and cost the school district money, so it’s not changing any time soon. The kids just have to get through it, the way generations before them did.

No, because kids would get home later and go to bed even later so it will not help at all.

My kid's private HS starts at 8:45 and this is not true in our home.

Sports at the school start at 3:30, my child does a club sport and has time to come home, get ready and drive to the location before 4. Dinner at a normal time (6:30ish), homework until 9ish depending on load. Generally asleep before 10, a "late" night is 10:30.

One experience, but it can work. Again, private school, not MCPS transportation issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teens need more sleep and a later start time would help with that, but it would also disrupt the scheduling of other things, impact family life, and cost the school district money, so it’s not changing any time soon. The kids just have to get through it, the way generations before them did.

No, because kids would get home later and go to bed even later so it will not help at all.

My kid's private HS starts at 8:45 and this is not true in our home.

Sports at the school start at 3:30, my child does a club sport and has time to come home, get ready and drive to the location before 4. Dinner at a normal time (6:30ish), homework until 9ish depending on load. Generally asleep before 10, a "late" night is 10:30.

One experience, but it can work. Again, private school, not MCPS transportation issues.

School ends at 3:00 pm and sports start at 3:30 pm? Your child must be The Flash if they can get home from school, change clothes and drive to their location in under 30 minutes. I've never seen a teen move that quickly.