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They can, but they don't. Most after-school activities at ES schools are run by parents or others. Virtually all clubs and coaching in MS schools are done by the teachers. There is no comparison.

Why can’t Baroody run middle school activities if teachers aren’t interested? [/quote]

The MS teachers *are* interested. That's why they would like to keep the schedule the way it is so that they can still run clubs after school. Some of them are very academic-based and shouldn't be run by Baroody.[/quote]
Ok, but there’s no reason outside providers can’t fill in some gaps if needed. I’m sure not all yea hers will decide not to do clubs if the schedule changes. [/quote]

Many schools have MS clubs that are created by the students and require a teacher sponsor. This would be very difficult with a random outside provider. Also, who would pay for the provider, APS? These activities are "free" to the kids because the teachers donate their time.[/quote]
Again, some teachers will still sponsor clubs. They don’t all object to the potential changes. I just don’t think we should throw out ideas that could give tweens and teens much needed sleep and start elementary students a start time that better aligns with their sleep rhythms based on the idea that some clubs may not happen. Over the last two years I’ve seen the APS teachers group flooded with people threatening to quit or predicting doom and gloom that has not come to fruition so I’m skeptical it will be so dire. [/quote]

It’s one thing to quit your job. It’s much easier to quit coaching/sponsoring the activity you’ve had for years because you have a 30-minute drive home at 4, but now have a 50-60 minute drive home at 5:30.

I’m a fan of the three options that make minor adjustments to the middle school bell schedule.

Haven’t we asked these middle school students to adjust to enough in the last few years? It seems cruel to propose these major changes for the 2022-23 school year, given what the last two years of school looked like for these kids. [/quote]
I think a lot of middle school kids would love extra sleep.[/quote]

Virtually every one of those kids could get extra sleep by going to bed earlier. Lol.[/quote]

Ah, there goes the research denier again.[/quote]

Rich, coming from the side that reduces all MS after school athletic and extracurricular opportunities to “kicking a ball around.” It seems research denial only applies to wake up times, not the benefits of exercise and enrichment opportunities.[/quote]

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