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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m guessing start times will change at some point. Not sure when exactly. It could be another 10 years. 
MCPS cannot ignore the science for ever. They may be the last school district to change but rather than be leaders, they will play catch up.
MCPS is considered meh for a reason. [/quote]

+1 I think the change will be coming everywhere. The science is clear. All experts agree that teens need 8-10 hours of sleep, ideally 9 to 9 1/2 hours. In our district (not Montgomery County), the high school bus comes at 6:23 a.m., so they wake up around 6 or so. School started at 7:20, but they would often get dropped off almost 30 minutes before that so that the buses could make the middle school run.

It is unreasonable to expect that teenagers will go to bed between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. in order to get a healthy amount of sleep. Kids' body clocks aren't set to fall asleep that early. It is not a parenting issue.

As a parent who has had one kid go to public school and one kid go to private, I can attest that the late start time made a world of difference. [/quote]

They JUST CHANGED the start times later for HS kids. [/quote]
Who did?[/quote]

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