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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just think it's funny how so many people are worried about their up-coming ms students having to go to school at 7:30, when thousands of ms students in FCPS have been doing this for the last 40 years!  Like you never noticed that other kids (at the secondary schools) had a raw deal?  And suddenly now that it's your kid, it's unacceptable?

Suck it up.  It's your kids' turn to catch the 6:40 a.m. bus.  [/quote]

So true.  Once it affects someone personally, then it becomes unacceptable, but if it's someone else's kid waiting outside in the dark?  Oh well, too bad.

Our middle school has always started at 7:40am, so 7:30 won't be a huge difference.  The kids will still be waiting outside in the pitch dark for a 6:20 bus.  [/quote]

It's always been unacceptable, no one thinks otherwise.  Many of us were hoping for an across the board improvement.[b]   I don't know why people think it's about "turns" or "sucking it up" because things were done a certain way in the past, everyone deserves to suffer at some point.  It's faulty thinking.  There isn't one way that will work for all students and families, but it is ironic that a mission to start school later is actually starting school earlier.[/quote][/b]

It's a matter of money.  People in NOVA don't want to pay more in taxes.  That means no money for extra buses, so compromises must be made.  It's too bad everyone can't go to school at a reasonable time, but as someone who has seen 2 kids go from grade school to HS, I would much rather they make the high school start later.  Middle school is two years -- most kids don't really hit the teen sleep thing until high school -- I know both my kids could still fall asleep in middle school, it was high school when their body clocks got out of whack.

Perhaps an incentive for fewer parents to red shirt?[/quote]

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