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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a large (4,000+ students) high school with shift schedules. From sophomore year onward, my classes began around 7 and ended around noon. The last period was lunch and that wasn't mandatory. Getting up at 5 am wasn't fun but otherwise, I loved it. It made it easy for me get to an after school job, do an extracurricular, and still have plenty of time to do homework.

There's nothing wrong with shift schedules. It's good solution to student overpopulation. 
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It's a solution of last resort for a system in a death spiral. [/quote]
There is no death spiral.  If it gets that bad people will leave Arlington for Fairfax, and that will be that.
Shift scheduling sounds great if it is optional.  I don’t know how many kids would self select into earlier start times for less crowded classes.[/quote]

[b]Some of us already left Arlington[/b] for Fairfax.  Others who might have moved to Arlington will stay in DC or move to Montgomery or Fairfax instead. [/quote]

OK. Why are you chiming in on APS posts? Do you have experience with shift schedules or not?

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Because we used to live in Arlington, we left in large part because of the deteriorating school situation, and I’m addressing the misleading suggestion that people aren’t already bailing on APS.

As for your second question, I had a sibling whose middle school had split shifts, and my parents often said later they felt it had impacted her education negatively.[/quote]

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