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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS should keep tweaks as minimal as possible while meeting their transportation goals. If they need to make large shifts in time for some schools, limit it to choice schools and programs.

Wholesale flipping around of start times would have far reaching implications beyond the school day, from those that have already been mentioned, to stresses on facility and sports scheduling- pools, fields, gyms, etc. MS and HS should end their school days earlier to give students time to both participate in extracurricular activities and still have time to get homework and studying completed. Not to mention that it allows older siblings to be available to care for younger ones or hold a desperately needed part time job.

Tweaks ok, massive shifts not.[/quote]

MS students are not old enough to hold jobs, and [b]the system should NOT work around making them childcare for younger siblings[/b], either! That’s way too much for MS students, who are just kids themselves, trying to recover from the pandemic. [/quote]

Like it or not, lots of families in Arlington depend on their older kids to take care of younger ones because they can’t afford child care. It happens whether the system is geared for it or not.[/quote]

It isn't APS' responsibility to determine and accommodate families' schedules.  It is APS' responsibility to run the best quality, most efficient system it can provide.  As you say, whether the system is geared for it or not, families depend on various things.....and therefore families have to figure it out according to how the system is "geared."  Not the other way around.  Because tailor-gearing for the needs of 23,000 students is not possible.[/quote]

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