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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are your elementary school's hours in Fairfax County?  The one my daughter will be starting at is 9:00am - 4:00pm which means that we'll have to pay for both before care and after care because if I drop my kid off at 9:00am, I won't get to work until 10:00.  Why on earth do they start little kids so late??  I see other elementaries that I drive by that start at 8:00, that would make so much more sense (and cost me so much less money).[/quote]

Another legacy of Garza and the moronic later start times for high schools.

Thanks Garza![/quote]

If some kids need to start school at 7, [b]better the MS kids than the HS kids[/b]. Garza isn't responsible for the size of the school district or the bus fleet.[/quote]

[b]MS kids actually need more sleep than HS kids[/b], but our bell times don't reflect that.

As for Garza not being responsible for the size of the bus fleet, then who was?  The tooth fairy?[/quote]

Both HS and MS kids need sleep. But part of the point of later HS start times and more rest for HS students is that the stakes are much higher in HS. HS grades are the grades that will affect college admissions or other after-HS education. Middle school is two years; HS is four. It's not a perfect solution that MS kids have the earlier hours -- sure, ideally, kids would all get later start times, but that is not the reality of bus schedules in a vast system the size of FCPS.

So what we have is the imperfect but workable solution of earlier MS hours for just two years, and later ones for the four, more crucial, years of HS.

Those posting earlier that elementary kids would have a tough time adjusting to MS start times: Yes, they might. And they'll deal with it--for just two years.

My kid is in HS and went from a 9:15 start in elementary to a 7:50 start in MS to an 8:10 start in HS. So did all DC's peers. They've all survived.

This wasn't done in the dark. FCPS had public forums any parent could attend, and many parents did just that. The schedule change took years of discussion and options (which were available online for all to see, even if they couldn't get to the public forums). It's time to just live with it instead of raising these "I hate the late ES schedule and early MS schedule" threads over and over and over.[/quote]

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