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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, flipping elementary school and middle school would be great. If you look at the rhythms of sleep for kids, as they start to go with puberty in middle school it’s important for them to have more sleep. So if you had elementary start at 7:40, middle at nine, it would work better. especially since middle school kids don’t have to work after school like high school kids.  [/quote]
I'd love this as a morning person and Pre-K teacher. My students are so tired by 3, late start schools are rough for some little kids![/quote]
I’m not sure how this would be beneficial though— most parents with kids work and so the vast majority of kids would be in aftercare.  I can’t imagine the kids getting out at 2:30 on normal days, and 11 on early release.  They would be in aftercare until 5 for most kids, that’s a really long day. Middle and highschool come home more or less independently.  Also they say that elementary school has to be the latest because of an adult isn’t there to meet a child, they have to take them back to school.  Can’t do that if there’s another route after.[/quote]

Prior to this year our school started at 8am so the kids were out at 241pm. I miss it. My kids did not go to aftercare but I LOVED them being able to come home and relax before heading to activities. Now they walk in the door, I hand them a snack and we head right back out. It is tiring.

Also, when we were the earlier start if a parent was not there to meet a kid the kid just stayed on the bus to go to the next school and then they rode along until they could be dropped back off at their home school. [/quote]

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