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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This schedule exists because buses are shared between the levels of school.  The same bus takes kids to middle and high school first.  It would make so much more sense to send the little kids to school first, then the high schoolers later, but that is too much upheaval for the schools to implement.[/quote]

I've never seen a convincing argument of why this makes sense that didn't amount to "my kid is too spoiled to get up that early".

Getting out early allows high schoolers to have jobs, play sports, and do other productive things, and still eat dinner with their families.  [/quote]

There's a lot of research showing that teenagers naturally have a shifted circadian rhythm and benefit from sleeping later.  I personally think it's stupid that high schoolers have to get up so early when their bodies and minds function better if they sleep a bit later, and wish the schools would catch on and start the elementary and middle school kids earlier.[/quote]

Same old crap.  This "shifted circadian rhythm" thing must have magically sprung up with the invention of the computer, cell phone, and texting.  I have no recollection at all of ever being tired in high school.  My mother says that we all were in bed by 10 and well-rested in the morning.  Today kids spend hours on their phones, Facebook, etc, and it cuts into their study time thus they stay up until midnight or later.[/quote]

I was always tired.  My kids are in elementary school and they are going to absolutely die with our bus being at 8:25.[/quote]

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