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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]seems like most of the posters on this topic have kids in public school where school normally starts at 7-8am.  Any one with kids in private care to chime in?  Does the extra hour of sleep and/or more time to study make a difference for  private school kids?[/quote]

What "extra hour"? My DS is in 11th grade at STA, leaves for school at 7:20 am, has sports until 5:30 pm, gets home by 6:00 pm (unless it's Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, when extracurriculars have him getting home at 8:20 pm, 7:10 pm, or 9:20 pm), eats dinner with the family (except on Tuesday or Thursday), and usually gets to sleep at 1:30 am. It's not just homework after dinner; it's also writing and editing he does for extracurriculars and writing for fellowship applications. I stopped tucking him into bed years ago.[/quote]

The PP is probably thinking MCPS, which starts at 7:20 and our bus picks up at 6:40.  So that is a 40 minutes earlier start.  The rest of the schedule sounds familiar, although my DC is typically in bed at 12:30.  1:30 sounds brutal.  I think the hour earlier my DC gets to bed is probably a real benefit to health, and even academic performance.  Is your DS abe to catch up on sleep on weekends?[/quote]

DS does sleep all he can on the weekends, but (including transportation time) he has an 8:30-to-2:30 activity on Saturdays and a 12:00-to-4:00 and a 4:15-to-6:30 activity on Sundays in addition to homework and studying and the other extracurriculars. DH and I had always limited the number of extracurriculars the kids did when they were little: the limit was two extracurriculars, as in "pick two." But once they get into upper school, you lose all control as they sign up for this club at school or get elected for that leadership position. Sometimes something does give -- he will skip something when he's got too much to do -- and that's fine. [/quote]

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