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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid in ES and MS also needs sleep. These people want to throw younger kids under the bus because it's more convenient for them makes no sense. The county already debated this and the matter is settled.[/quote]

Seriously. It's draining and exhausting.

Also, they act like American kids are precious snowflakes who can't be challenged to do a simple thing like go to bed on time and wake up on time.

Meanwhile, their counterparts in places like Japan, France and the UK go to high school from 8:30 am to as LATE as 4, 5 or 6 pm. Meanwhile, our kids go to school from 7:45 am to 2:30 pm and they're acting like they're being waterboarded. Grow up.[/quote]

And in Germany, they go to high school from 8 am to 12:30 pm or 1 pm. So what?

It's one thing to say: early school start times are a problem, but there's currently no way for MCPS to solve the problem without creating even more problems.

It's a whole different thing to say: early school start times are not a problem. There is a mountain of evidence that they are a problem.[/quote]

My point in posting the other global start and end times is that OTHER COUNTRIES also demand their students wake up "early" and in some cases, those kids have even LONGER school days than we do. And guess what? They're thriving and making it work with that system.

AGAIN, look around globally. Most school times start around 8 am. [b]MCPS currently starts at 7:45 am. We are within the RANGE of normal. So what the hell are we fighting about? 15 freaking minutes? [/b]

If we had a 6 or 7 am start time (which btw, we used to have as my first period used to be at 7:15 am in the 90s), ok. I could concede your point. But most high schools globally start around 8 am. We are not some anomaly.[/quote]

My high school kids gets on the school bus at 7:00 am. Which means that one of them gets up at 6:50, and the other one gets up at 5:30. Either way, it's before 7:45 am.[/quote]

You can drive them.  [/quote]

Not everyone is able to drive. Not everyone has a car. Not everyone is available to drive. And the last thing we need is more cars on the road. So no, "You can drive them" is not a solution.[/quote]

Sounds like you can understand why many people also need to have older siblings watch the younger ones. [/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to, and yes, I do understand that. There are two issues here:

1. There's plenty of scientific evidence that teenagers, specifically, don't do well in the early mornings.
2. There is no feasible way for MCPS to adjust school start times to teenager biology as long as MCPS to transport over 100,000 students per day by school bus.[/quote]

There's also plenty of scientific evidence that older children in HS need to provide daycare for their younger sibilings.[/quote]

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