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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course, there are pros and cons in every scenario. You need to get your priorities straight. If you are mostly concerned about teenage health, depression, etc you can make starting HS later a priority and work around that. If not, then no point to discuss. 
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BOE does not care even a bit about mental health of teens. It's a pointless discussion.

Anyone caring about teens mental heath would have flipped it long time back like some counties have done. [/quote]

Mental health is not the BOE's problem.  It's a parenting problem.  I care about my child's mental health and they already have a full schedule and pushing start time back means they cannot do things they'd enjoy.  Clearly you care more about your needs than other kids needs who may be different from yours.  If your kids have mental health issues, get them  therapist.[/quote]

I am a mental health professional with kids in ES, lol.

Try to educate yourself  a bit about how teens sleep cycles are different. [/quote]

[b]I am educated in it as well.[/b]  Maybe if you were a better mental health professional these kids wouldn't have these issues.  It would be a disaster for my kid.  Teens need to be prepared for the real world.  Making a later start time will just have them go to bed later.  My kid has sports at 3:45 for an hour an a half.  So, by the time they do that and homework, eat, and some days another activity its easily 11 PM before everything is done, sometimes midnight.  Pushing it back would make them go to bed an hour or two later or have to get up even earlier to do their schoolwork so the suggestion makes not sense except for maybe someone like you who doesn't value sports, work, extra curricular activities.[/quote]

Are you? Yours answers don't reflect that. Try to read up how sleep cycles changes for 80-90% of teens.

You can do sports at different times . You are making a case for why entire student body should suffer because your kid has to do sports at XYZ time. [/quote]

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