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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This schedule exists because buses are shared between the levels of school.  The same bus takes kids to middle and high school first.  It would make so much more sense to send the little kids to school first, then the high schoolers later, but that is too much upheaval for the schools to implement.[/quote]

I've never seen a convincing argument of why this makes sense that didn't amount to "my kid is too spoiled to get up that early".

Getting out early allows high schoolers to have jobs, play sports, and do other productive things, and still eat dinner with their families.  [/quote]

The PP mentioned nothing about being spoiled.  Where did THAT come from?

Little kids are up early.  And there have been tons of articles discussing the benefits of starting high school earlier - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704535004575349182901006438.html

But b/c of this need to squeeze in sports (b/c all high school kids will earn sports scholarships to college or they'll end up at the Olympics  :roll: ) and work, the start time is 7:25 am for most high schools - at least in Mo Co.

It's ridiculous.[/quote]

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