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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the main reason times were switched was after school care. Older siblings needed to be home to watch the younger kids.[/quote]

This is a terrible reason to have middle school children get to school at 7am. First of all, it's pretty unfair to the Middle Schooler - not only are they more tired, but they are also supposed to prioritize another person's needs over their own.

Second, it seems this could be remedied by offering more afterschool care options for elementary school children.

Third, when the elementary school students are going to school at 9am and the parents have to be at work by 8, what then? It's the same problem and you could easily justify sending the middle schoolers later because they need to help get the elementary students off to school.

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There are many many things that are arranged for parents/adult needs rather than children.  Kids do better with shorter school hours, people have more output with a less than 40 hour work week.  Yet, we still haven’t structured our economy to meet human needs, only the needs of money.

So this may be a “terrible reason” but it is necessary for where we are right now.  [/quote]

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