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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I  work at an MCPS high school. All the kids with abbreviated schedules have those due to child-minding duties of younger siblings or after-school jobs.  There are thousands of  even 9th graders who must  get home to mind their younger siblings. [/quote]

The obvious solution for that is extended care at school for the young ones. [/quote]

Gee, I wasn’t aware that after school care didn’t already exist a lots of ES.  I wonder what the cost for said service is and how many kids can it include?[/quote]

Don't be obtuse.  If aftercare is cost-prohibitive for a subset of families whose HS students normally provide childcare, then subsidize it.  They already subsidize so many other things.  Has anyone worked up a cost on this?  Because I would gladly pay higher taxes for start times that made more sense.  This isn't an insurmountable problem.[/quote]
Why not spend that money on classroom teachers instead and just have schools start at the current time that works best for most families.[/quote]

Works best for you, you mean?  I don't even have a dog in this fight as we are about to be done with MCPS, but the research is pretty clear that later start times are better for teenagers.  [/quote]

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