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[quote=Anonymous]Not appropriate to move middle school earlier -- this is the beginning of growth changes, and I have noticed that along with growth/puberty changes, my MS student's sleep cycles are already changing to the stay up later/wake up later pattern that goes thru HS.

I do not support a longer day for elementary school.  Frankly, I have found the elementary curriculum to be very weak -- even more so with C2.0.  I can't support having my child be in school for an even longer day, especially at that young age when play dates and after school activities and other "down" time is so important.   More time with a weak curriculum and weak teachers is really not going to be helpful.  For those students that enter or fall behind in elementary, rigorous research-based intervention during the school day would be most helpful. 2nd most helpful would be rigorous research-based intervention/catch-up plans after the school day or in Saturday school.  Instead, right now, those students who are behind are simply given more of the same, on the theory that teaching the same way a second time will be successful.  [/quote]

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