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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elementary school earlier would eliminate the need for extended day in the morning. [/quote]

But it could transfer this need to middle school.  How many 6th graders can get themselves out of bed, breakfast, to a bus on time?  These kids are young.  If middle school starts later, they may need morning extended day as an option for working parents who have to be at work before 9am.[/quote]

This American society has things so backward.  WHy is everyone always bending to the current status of the kids rather than setting things up so that kids develop into responsible teens and then responsible adults?  How many 6th graders can get themselves up and to school on time depends on how many of them have parents who expect and teach them to do so.  If that's what the system is, you find a way....just as people have found ways of working within the current system (which changed many years ago).[/quote]

My MS kid goes to HB and wakes up alone every day, gets out the door to the bus stop while both parents are at work.  It's not that hard.  Especially because they are better rested with a later wake up time, and also because the sun is always up by that time, which makes it easier.

I bet faced with the idea that the alternative is to get up even earlier to go to before care/babysitter, most 11 year olds would find it preferable to develop their sense of responsibility.[/quote]

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