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[quote=Anonymous][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.   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]

Well, it's not about "turns"--- but the proposal IS an improvement for the majority of kids affected by early schedules now.  It's not a 100% improvement, but it IS progress.  So, the complaining we see here appears to be more about NIMBY (or not in my kid's schedule).  There will be fewer kids with early schedules than there are right now.  It's good for the majority... just not for you who have ms kids (not at secondary schools).[/quote]

EXACTLY.  Is the new schedule ideal?  No, but it's an improvement for high schoolers.  It would be great if FCPS could make MS start times later too and I think they said they're working toward that.  But all of our kids will eventually be in high school, so why not start the process there?  I'm all for the change and I appreciate that they've (hopefully) finally decided to implement it.  [/quote]

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