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They want to start elementary school at basically 10am? I am screaming this is WILD.[/quote]

No, Scenario C2 as the OP pointed out has MIDDLE SCHOOL starting at 9:40 and ending at 4:25. Elementary Schools would run 8a - 2:45 or 9:10 - 3:55, and HS 8:30-3:15.

I'm gonna say that this will completely throw a wrench in after school activities for that age group. You're going to have them getting home at 5pm, and then activities running 7-9? 7:30 - 9:30? I feel like this is just going to push 12 and 13yo kids to go to bed even later because they go to school later, which is counter to the entire point of this exercise.

At this point, just leave it like it is and shuffle through the 2 years of Middle School with the early wake up/rise. Yikes. [/quote]

MS parents wanted a later start time. So they’d start at 9:40. Mission accomplished. [/quote]

Correction: start times is NOT something that current MS parents lobbied for and are not ones making changes happen. 10 years ago the school board determined start times should be later but only implemented for HS and said they would “quickly” revisit for MS. What’s going on now is that quick follow up to 10 year old plan. And beyond that, current MS kids now will not be in MS when this rolls out- FCPS knows this. The reason they sought input from current MS parents and current MS students was to get real time experience input. So many of these posts read the current MS are actively engaging in sabotage. Everyone will get further if direct ire (or praise) to school board if want to see changes to what happening.[/quote]

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