What's wrong with "shift schedules"? (APS)

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Anonymous wrote:The other negative is the potentially huge amount of additional free time that young people would gain in the middle of the day. At one point there were studies that more kids got drunk, high, had sex and all sorts of other bad behaviors for the first time during the hours after school and before parents got home. How many hundreds of Arlington teens do we want midday with no supervision?

LOL, that explains why that PP loved their split shift experience!

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a large (4,000+ students) high school with shift schedules. From sophomore year onward, my classes began around 7 and ended around noon. The last period was lunch and that wasn't mandatory. Getting up at 5 am wasn't fun but otherwise, I loved it. It made it easy for me get to an after school job, do an extracurricular, and still have plenty of time to do homework.

There's nothing wrong with shift schedules. It's good solution to student overpopulation.

It's a solution of last resort for a system in a death spiral.

There is no death spiral. If it gets that bad people will leave Arlington for Fairfax, and that will be that.
Shift scheduling sounds great if it is optional. I don’t know how many kids would self select into earlier start times for less crowded classes.

Some of us already left Arlington for Fairfax. Others who might have moved to Arlington will stay in DC or move to Montgomery or Fairfax instead.

Lol, drama queen. If there are so many of you then why are our schools so overcrowded?

LOL indeed...because APS doesn't have enough schools and spent money imprudently on the new schools it built.

Again, why are you on a thread about APS? Are you just trying to be a b1tch? I see no other purpose. GFY.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The other negative is the potentially huge amount of additional free time that young people would gain in the middle of the day. At one point there were studies that more kids got drunk, high, had sex and all sorts of other bad behaviors for the first time during the hours after school and before parents got home. How many hundreds of Arlington teens do we want midday with no supervision?

LOL, that explains why that PP loved their split shift experience!

Good point. PP should come back to share her grades and which college she attended (if any).

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a large (4,000+ students) high school with shift schedules. From sophomore year onward, my classes began around 7 and ended around noon. The last period was lunch and that wasn't mandatory. Getting up at 5 am wasn't fun but otherwise, I loved it. It made it easy for me get to an after school job, do an extracurricular, and still have plenty of time to do homework.

There's nothing wrong with shift schedules. It's good solution to student overpopulation.

It's a solution of last resort for a system in a death spiral.

There is no death spiral. If it gets that bad people will leave Arlington for Fairfax, and that will be that.
Shift scheduling sounds great if it is optional. I don’t know how many kids would self select into earlier start times for less crowded classes.

Some of us already left Arlington for Fairfax. Others who might have moved to Arlington will stay in DC or move to Montgomery or Fairfax instead.

Lol, drama queen. If there are so many of you then why are our schools so overcrowded?

LOL indeed...because APS doesn't have enough schools and spent money imprudently on the new schools it built.

Again, why are you on a thread about APS? Are you just trying to be a b1tch? I see no other purpose. GFY.

Miserable, pathetic trolls have taken over this forum to bash APS. Sad!

[Anonymous]

Probably that McLean nut job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The other negative is the potentially huge amount of additional free time that young people would gain in the middle of the day. At one point there were studies that more kids got drunk, high, had sex and all sorts of other bad behaviors for the first time during the hours after school and before parents got home. How many hundreds of Arlington teens do we want midday with no supervision?

LOL, that explains why that PP loved their split shift experience!

Good point. PP should come back to share her grades and which college she attended (if any).

PP with positive shift schedule experience. Sorry to disappoint you but I ended up getting a 75% scholarship to a liberal arts school. I wouldn't have had my hs experience any other way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a large (4,000+ students) high school with shift schedules. From sophomore year onward, my classes began around 7 and ended around noon. The last period was lunch and that wasn't mandatory. Getting up at 5 am wasn't fun but otherwise, I loved it. It made it easy for me get to an after school job, do an extracurricular, and still have plenty of time to do homework.

There's nothing wrong with shift schedules. It's good solution to student overpopulation.

It's a solution of last resort for a system in a death spiral.

There is no death spiral. If it gets that bad people will leave Arlington for Fairfax, and that will be that.
Shift scheduling sounds great if it is optional. I don’t know how many kids would self select into earlier start times for less crowded classes.

Some of us already left Arlington for Fairfax. Others who might have moved to Arlington will stay in DC or move to Montgomery or Fairfax instead.

Lol, drama queen. If there are so many of you then why are our schools so overcrowded?

LOL indeed...because APS doesn't have enough schools and spent money imprudently on the new schools it built.

Again, why are you on a thread about APS? Are you just trying to be a b1tch? I see no other purpose. GFY.

Not the ffx poster, but seriously give it a rest. It isn’t a bunch of randoms discussing APS and it’s VERY REAL ISSUES. Take your poms poms over to Facebook or wherever. I’m sure Murphy will love your cheerleading over there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The other negative is the potentially huge amount of additional free time that young people would gain in the middle of the day. At one point there were studies that more kids got drunk, high, had sex and all sorts of other bad behaviors for the first time during the hours after school and before parents got home. How many hundreds of Arlington teens do we want midday with no supervision?

LOL, that explains why that PP loved their split shift experience!

Good point. PP should come back to share her grades and which college she attended (if any).

PP with positive shift schedule experience. Sorry to disappoint you but I ended up getting a 75% scholarship to a liberal arts school. I wouldn't have had my hs experience any other way.

Cool story, bro. You know what they say about anecdotes, though, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a large (4,000+ students) high school with shift schedules. From sophomore year onward, my classes began around 7 and ended around noon. The last period was lunch and that wasn't mandatory. Getting up at 5 am wasn't fun but otherwise, I loved it. It made it easy for me get to an after school job, do an extracurricular, and still have plenty of time to do homework.

There's nothing wrong with shift schedules. It's good solution to student overpopulation.

It's a solution of last resort for a system in a death spiral.

There is no death spiral. If it gets that bad people will leave Arlington for Fairfax, and that will be that.
Shift scheduling sounds great if it is optional. I don’t know how many kids would self select into earlier start times for less crowded classes.

Some of us already left Arlington for Fairfax. Others who might have moved to Arlington will stay in DC or move to Montgomery or Fairfax instead.

Lol, drama queen. If there are so many of you then why are our schools so overcrowded?

LOL indeed...because APS doesn't have enough schools and spent money imprudently on the new schools it built.

Again, why are you on a thread about APS? Are you just trying to be a b1tch? I see no other purpose. GFY.

Not the ffx poster, but seriously give it a rest. It isn’t a bunch of randoms discussing APS and it’s VERY REAL ISSUES. Take your poms poms over to Facebook or wherever. I’m sure Murphy will love your cheerleading over there.

I’d like to discuss the issues with APS, not Arlington haters who aren’t making constructive comments.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The other negative is the potentially huge amount of additional free time that young people would gain in the middle of the day. At one point there were studies that more kids got drunk, high, had sex and all sorts of other bad behaviors for the first time during the hours after school and before parents got home. How many hundreds of Arlington teens do we want midday with no supervision?

LOL, that explains why that PP loved their split shift experience!

Good point. PP should come back to share her grades and which college she attended (if any).

PP with positive shift schedule experience. Sorry to disappoint you but I ended up getting a 75% scholarship to a liberal arts school. I wouldn't have had my hs experience any other way.

Which one?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The other negative is the potentially huge amount of additional free time that young people would gain in the middle of the day. At one point there were studies that more kids got drunk, high, had sex and all sorts of other bad behaviors for the first time during the hours after school and before parents got home. How many hundreds of Arlington teens do we want midday with no supervision?

LOL, that explains why that PP loved their split shift experience!

Good point. PP should come back to share her grades and which college she attended (if any).

PP with positive shift schedule experience. Sorry to disappoint you but I ended up getting a 75% scholarship to a liberal arts school. I wouldn't have had my hs experience any other way.

Cool story, bro. You know what they say about anecdotes, though, right?

Nope, most of my friends also did pretty well for themselves. The ones that didn't do well- that had nothing to do with a shift schedule. The idea that school schedules MUST done in a certain way is nonsense. Is a shift schedule the right solution in this particular situation? I don't know. But it is viable and legitimate option that has worked well in other places.

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Anonymous wrote:The other negative is the potentially huge amount of additional free time that young people would gain in the middle of the day. At one point there were studies that more kids got drunk, high, had sex and all sorts of other bad behaviors for the first time during the hours after school and before parents got home. How many hundreds of Arlington teens do we want midday with no supervision?

LOL, that explains why that PP loved their split shift experience!

Good point. PP should come back to share her grades and which college she attended (if any).

PP with positive shift schedule experience. Sorry to disappoint you but I ended up getting a 75% scholarship to a liberal arts school. I wouldn't have had my hs experience any other way.

Cool story, bro. You know what they say about anecdotes, though, right?

Nope, most of my friends also did pretty well for themselves. The ones that didn't do well- that had nothing to do with a shift schedule. The idea that school schedules MUST done in a certain way is nonsense. Is a shift schedule the right solution in this particular situation? I don't know. But it is viable and legitimate option that has worked well in other places.

No. Next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That this 3rd world solution is being discussed in one of the wealthiest counties in the US makes me so angry I can barely see straight.

I hear you. It is inconceivable, in a county that has the budget Arlington has. Such a lack of planning, vision, and foresight. Such squandering of taxpayers' money for vanity projects just a few years ago (and continuing through last year), when they KNEW the numbers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That this 3rd world solution is being discussed in one of the wealthiest counties in the US makes me so angry I can barely see straight.

I hear you. It is inconceivable, in a county that has the budget Arlington has. Such a lack of planning, vision, and foresight. Such squandering of taxpayers' money for vanity projects just a few years ago (and continuing through last year), when they KNEW the numbers.

Seriously, Arlington Co. is still dominated by aging boomers who want nothing more than to be a way station for upwardly mobile college grads. Planning is f'n easy when you have a transient population of well off people on prime real estate. It's hard when resources get stretched and push comes to shove. Families require services and parents make noise. So the thinking is, build that lazy river for the grannies and let the schools deteriorate and voila, problem solved. The reason we're in this mess is that a mess is the point.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a large (4,000+ students) high school with shift schedules. From sophomore year onward, my classes began around 7 and ended around noon. The last period was lunch and that wasn't mandatory. Getting up at 5 am wasn't fun but otherwise, I loved it. It made it easy for me get to an after school job, do an extracurricular, and still have plenty of time to do homework.

There's nothing wrong with shift schedules. It's good solution to student overpopulation.

It's a solution of last resort for a system in a death spiral.

There is no death spiral. If it gets that bad people will leave Arlington for Fairfax, and that will be that.
Shift scheduling sounds great if it is optional. I don’t know how many kids would self select into earlier start times for less crowded classes.

Some of us already left Arlington for Fairfax. Others who might have moved to Arlington will stay in DC or move to Montgomery or Fairfax instead.

Lol, drama queen. If there are so many of you then why are our schools so overcrowded?

LOL indeed...because APS doesn't have enough schools and spent money imprudently on the new schools it built.

Again, why are you on a thread about APS? Are you just trying to be a b1tch? I see no other purpose. GFY.

Miserable, pathetic trolls have taken over this forum to bash APS. Sad!

It couldn’t happen if APS didn’t provide so much raw material to ridicule.