HS start times - what happened?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
-2. Literally. It's two years vs. four years, not to mention that the academic demands are less likely to keep students up later at night. So glad that Dr. Garza brings a common-sense approach to this. |
Anonymous
Yet you think Frost MS does not exist. Consider SIX years of early start times. |
Anonymous
Fair point, but that's three middle schools out of 25 (Poe, Holmes, Glasgow) and three years is still less than four years. |
Anonymous
| Not all the inside-the-Beltway middle schools are three years. |
Anonymous
How do you count for 2 people (-2)? |
Anonymous
| Every school, every grade should have a reasonable start time. I don't see transferring the problem as a common sense approach. Personally, I voted for Option 1 or 4, and find Option 3 to be the worst - would rather keep things as they are. |
Anonymous
As I understand it, keeping things as they are (which is my preference) is "Option 5" (As I heard the teen from Chantilly HS mention at the school board meeting in June). |
Anonymous
And, that is the most popular option. |
Anonymous
It is neither an option nor most popular. |
Anonymous
Well, it may not be an option, but it should be. And, if you took a survey of the community, you would find it is the most popular. |
Anonymous
I think this is why it wasn't an option this time. The School Board has already decided to change the start times, they were just searching for how to do it- not make the decision all over again. The Washington Post article yesterday has Garza endorsing Option 3. I would prefer no change, but I can live with Option 3. I hated the options that had the HS start closer to and after 9:00am. |
Anonymous
Me again. I also want to know what gets cut to pay for the $5m+ cost. |
Anonymous
That's at least $5 million on top of the $7 million a year that full day Mondays will now cost. For a School Board that claims it doesn't have enough money, it sure loves to spend money. SLEEP assured us this would be a no-cost or even a cost saving change. Maybe the SLEEP crowd can come up with the $5 million? |
Anonymous
|
The cost of implementing full day Mondays does not come out of the existing budget (as I understood it). The County Board of Supervisors has told the school board that they would come up with the $$ for implementing full day Mondays b/c they knew it was something most of their constituents favored.
The cost for implementing later start times for HS is different -- but it wouldn't take effect until a year from this fall, so the dollars would be part of the next budget cycle. |
Anonymous
|
How about the option of privatizing buses, or the county creating bus stops at each school, so that FCPS no longer has to foot the bill for buses. ES, MS, HS can be at the same times, no crazy bus schedules. Kids that can walk, walk. Kids whose parents want to pay for the year can pay (I can't imagine it would be that much, seeing as though there are so many people that would use it), and other kids can use public transport.
Has anyone delved into the cost savings/benefit of this?! |