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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zero period is a class scheduled before first period sonstudents taking zero period classes start around 7:30 and are finished earlier in the day some days  due to block scheduling than the student with a typical schedule. One of my sons had his AP English class zero period at WL five years ago and hated it. He ended up with a zero period class after having to rearrange his schedule three weeks into the school year.[/quote]

Thanks!  So it sounds like due to overcrowding they offer some classes before school generally starts and then they may leave before the school day typically ends.  This way they have less people occupying the space during regular school hours.

[b]Hasn't Fairfax county moved high school start times back due to the studies and here we're asking teenagers to use them before the typical school day even begins?  Do Yorktown and Wakefield do this?  Or is it just W-L?
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I thought about that too. It would be better to put the classes at the end of the day, but then some students will miss out of sports and clubs.

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Yes, and some kids have jobs, too.

As long as we want kids to be involved in extracurricular activities (and I think we do), there really are good reasons to maintain the current structure of the high school day.[/quote]

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