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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Option 1 has the high schools starting too late. 9 am is not ok, especially when they initially said high school times wouldn’t be affected.[/quote]

The earliest acceptable start time for both MS and HS is 830a. 9a is not terribly late. Could it be a smidge earlier? Sure, but not by much. And they have to find a way to make this all work with the available transportation capacity. Given that, 9a seems pretty darn reasonable.

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9:00 is fine. [/quote]

Nope.

Keep high school on the current schedule

Any later is too late and any earlier is too early.[/quote]

+1 I would only accept 30 min later max for high school. That’s why option 2 is the only one that works. [/quote]

Well 30 min later is the [b]minimum[/b] for high school to be on the recommended schedule of no students 7th+ grade starting before 830am. I'm ok with 830am or even 9am, but 8am is objectively too early for the majority of high school students in order to maximize their academic achievement at school according to research. And that's what this is about, what's best for students academically... not what's best for their extracurriculars (which can adapt to the school schedule), not what's most convenient for parents (as if there were ever any hope of consensus on that topic), but what's best for the students themselves, from a primarily academic perspective.[/quote]

You do realize that the high school kids will just stay up later and will not do any better academically. They should go to sleep but they won’t and most parents won’t enforce. Most of this “so called” research is just surveys by the students so of course they like the idea of sleeping in. In actual data comparing schools they make a change to later or earlier there is virtually no difference in academic performance. Grades in generally have become very inflated in the last 10 years so of course anything you change can be defended with better academic success. You can make the data say whatever you want to. [/quote]

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