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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ 3rd paragraph should end with "either way".  Yes, MS schedule shifts more under C2 but that's kind of the whole point. It's a minor adjustment for the MS years.[/quote]

Getting out at 4:25 pm doesn’t make sense for middle schoolers - they have more time consuming homework. And they wouldn’t be able to do any sports or activities. That is why E makes more sense - MS will get 30 extra minutes of sleep and still have their after school activities. Many elementary schools are already homework free so those students can get out later.[/quote]

My middle schooler rarely has homework. They do all their work in class. Do you even have a middle schooler?[/quote]

My MS kid rarely has homework but he has friends who always have homework. Some kids can’t get the work done in class and have to finish at home. The notices posted on schoology seem to indicate that it is a decent number of kids.[/quote]

So we are going to ruin school for elementary kids by sending them to school until 4:30 PM, and mess up high school schedules of the kids who have hours of real homework, whose grades actually count for college, and whose sport/musicals/concerts/jobs already finish at 10:00 PM or later, to aapease a small group of middle school parents whose kids screw around in class not doing their (easy) school work, for 2 quick years of inconvenience?

Only this school board could be so short sighted and foolish.[/quote]

Did I say that? I said that MS kids have homework. That is what I said.

The 7:30 start time for MS kids is ridiculous. The solution, to me, is to have enough busses and bus drivers that we can get kids to school on a schedule that makes sense. We cannot afford that and there are not enough bus drivers so we need a different solution.

MS gets the shaft because it is a 2 year period of time. Based on sleep schedules, I suspect that there are a lot more ES kids who are up by 7 AM, not all but probably a decent majority, and ES could start earlier. But parents would have to provide after care with a 7:30 or 8:00 start time and that will cause an outcry. ES is also the largest moved for busses, because of the number of schools and the shortest walking zone, so it would take a while to get the kids to school. MS and HS start times would be moved to sometime after 9:00, which would mess up after school activities for a lot of kids.

The end solution is probably keep things as they are and have MS kids suck it up for a few years, moving to a slightly better schedule in HS.

The reality is that we can all find individual exemptions to the norm, “My ES kids doesn’t wake up until 8 and it will be a struggle if school starts earlier” type thing. “My MS didn’t have homework so who cares about homework time after school.”  You need to realize that there are exceptions to the rule and the one of two kids you know who are like your kids probably are not the norm.[/quote]

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