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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure tomorrow will be a wasted day for high schoolers. They will all be so tired. I’m dreading trying to get my kid up in the morning [/quote]

You should try giving them a bedtime. I know parenting is hard, but they will be less tired with a good nights sleep.[/quote]

Ha ha! I’m a pretty strong parent. You clearly don’t have teenagers. My kid will often go to bed at 10 but says he can’t fall asleep until 11 or later. The weekends also mess him up since he will sleep late on weekends to catch up on sleep. And now with AP exams around the corner, he is very stressed and anxious [/quote]

2 teens, one 19 and in college (where she can choose not to take early morning classes) and one 16, still in HS.  Perhaps your anxiety prone child should not be in AP classes if they are to much for him.

There are many families in the county who need their HS students to either watch their ES students after school, or, need their HS students to work after school, to help the family make rent and put food on the table.  While that may not be your situation, surely you can see how these needs trump your anxious child's need to stay up late at night?  [/quote]

DP. Actually, no. Health is health, and the need for free babysitting is not a reason to avoid start times that are in the best interest of the health and the ability to learn of all kids. There are babysitting holes in the mornings with late elementary school start times too. People figure out a way.  The same is true with jobs. Sorry, but if the current schedule is intended to maximize employment hours at the expense of sleep and school work, it it really in the best interest of the students?[/quote]

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