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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Loudoun County starts ES at ~7:50 (but that will change next year), MS at ~8:20 and HS at ~9:15.

It's been that way as long as I can remember. We like it and don't understand why everybody doesn't do it this way.[/quote]

[b]Most schools in the country do. [/b]Mcps is behind. [/quote]

Not really.

https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-later-school-start-time-gave-small-boost-to-grades-but-big-boost-to-sleep-new-study-finds/

[i]Nationally, Minnesota has been at the forefront of starting school later in the morning. Edina, an affluent Minneapolis suburb, is believed to be the first town in the U.S. to shift to a later start, moving in 1996 from 7:20 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. in response to medical research about teen sleep. In 2014, the American Pediatric Association recommended an 8:30 a.m. start time for high schools and middle schools so that teens can get sufficient sleep.

Schools have been slow to heed the doctors’ advice. [b]Only 17 percent of U.S. high schools start the day at 8:30 a.m. or later, according to the most recent federal data.[/b] The average start time for high school across the nation remains a half hour earlier, at 8:00 a.m.. South Carolina has the latest high school start time in the nation of 8:34 a.m., followed by Alaska, Minnesota and Iowa. The earliest is Louisiana, where high schools start at 7:30 a.m., on average.[/i]

I realize it's a district-by-district decision, and that the state figures are probably an average. [/quote]

I guess this author is only looking at states because DCPS highschools have an arrival time of 8.45 am with classes starting at 9 am. 
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