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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guess what—every kindergarten parent has a kid that struggled this week. Exhausted and cranky at dinner time. It will pass. Your middle schooler will be fine. Make sure the phone is on YOUR nightstand every night.  Kids adjust. [/quote]

This is so different - your kindergartener is not going from a 9:20 start time to a 7:30am start time - that's a huge adjustment. My ES kids wake up at 8:00 to get on the bus at 9:00. Next year, my current 6th grader will have to wake up at least two hours earlier to get on the bus at 6:45. That's a MUCH bigger adjustment than a preschooler going to kindergarten (my kids schedule didn't change from preschool to kindergarten - if anything, they went to school later).[/quote]

I teach at a 9:20 ES and it is awful. We have kids not getting home till 5pm. The last hour is a joke cause no one can focus. 
School should be 8:00-3:00 ES, 8:30-3:30 Middle and High School

They need to do the following:
Get rid of bussing to AAP centers when your school has LL4
Change walking distances depending on location. I would say we gave two bus routes that could absolutely walk/bike to school. 
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ES also have the most runs. There are 140 something ES and like 15 high schools. [/quote]

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