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Some of you are insane- maybe just 1-2 posters?  Other districts (and not just CA) have found a way to make this work and gasp! still have extracurriculars and sports programs.  So dramatic.  If you’re seriously advocating to arrange school times to enable high school kids have extended hour after school jobs, you’re entitled to that POV but schools should be prioritizing actual education.[/quote]

DP. Yes, schools should be prioritizing actual education. However, MCPS's ability to do that is constrained by the fact that over 100,000 students require school bus transportation twice a day. There are ways to solve this problem, for example

1. dump the responsibility for school transportation on the parents (a bad idea for many reasons)
2. increase safe walk/bike/scoot to school routes (not under MCPS's control)
3. have students on public transportation routes use public transportation instead of school buses (MCPS could do that, but the screams of outrage from some parents would probably be audible in Tasmania)
4. have elementary school students start school ridiculously early, and high school students start late (MCPS examined this possibility but decided the disadvantages outweighed the advantages)
5. have middle school students start school ridiculously early, and high school students start later (MCPS also examined this possibility but etc., plus 7:45 is also too early for middle-school students)[/quote]

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