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Like I said, the science is pretty clear that sending High School students to school at 7:45 is damaging. At the bare minimum the start times should be reversed. HS students should start at 9, elementary schoolers at 7:45. As far as after school jobs and sports, I would think that education and student's mental health should be the priority here. 
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PP, you may be surprised to learn that all of these issues were explicitly addressed when MCPS made their bell time decision in 2015.[/quote]

Sure, it's too bad the kids' weren't prioritized over the convenience of adults back then.

https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/features/schools-start-too-early.html[/quote]

^^^How not to persuade decision-makers to change a policy.[/quote]

Very true. These decisions aren't made based on the evidence. They're oriented around satisfying a few well-connected interest groups.[/quote]

Ah yes. The vast reach of low-income parents as a powerful constituency. [/quote]

Much like the entrenched opposition to automated traffic enforcement, there's nothing more heartwarming than watching wealthy white parents don the robes of Social Justice Warrior when the interests of the poor occasionally intersect with their narrow self-interests. [/quote]

I suspect the institutional inertia on this has a lot more to do with parents of high-school kids (for whom the evidence of benefits is overwhelming) being outvoted by elementary and middle school parents, who find their own later start times to be a convenience they don't want to part with. [/quote]

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