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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many parents fail to enforce reasonable bedtimes long before than the teen years and then it’s too late once they actually have to be up early for something. [/quote]

You can enforce bedtimes, you can’t enforce falling asleep.

Some of you are very invested in maintaining the status quo, almost like you’re worried or something. Strange.[/quote]

I'm not an MCPS parent, but I'm in another school that has raised the same question.

I feel like my time with my high schooler is so limited.  My work hours aren't flexible at all, and so the idea that he'd get home 2 hours later, and have 2 hours less family time, 2 hours less time for me to help with HW before I need to go to sleep, things I think he needs, does worry me. Since he's already sleeping the hours he needs, usually about 9:30 to 6:30, I assume he'd be trading those 2 hours unsupervised in the morning, or 2 hours after the rest of the family is asleep.  That doesn't seem healthy at all. [/quote]

I'm also not an MCPS parent, but your concerns work both ways. My son left for the bus at 6:30 a.m. and got home at 2:00 p.m.  I would much rather have had breakfast with him and hung out in the morning than have him home alone for three hours each afternoon. The early dismissal provided no additional family time for working parents. I think that MCPSS has activity buses, but if a high school does not have activity buses, it meant leaving work at 2:30 p.m. to pick up or arranging for rides for activities. A later start time better aligns with work hours and makes picking up easier. [/quote]

Get up, have breakfast with him and drive him.

We have to arrange our schedules to dive our kid to an activity after school.  [/quote]

Why are you so invested in the status quo? I've had it both ways with my kids, and a later start is so much better..[/quote]

Our schedules including after school activities are all arranged on it.  [/quote]

You could change your schedules, though. If MCPS could do it, you could do it also.[/quote]

NO. You people need to stop. This is the way it has been and will be unless MCPS caves to your fringe interests. Thankfully they don’t seem interested and we only have 3 years left. Stop trying to ruin my kids’ high school experience because you can’t be a parent and put your kids to bed at a decent hour.[/quote]

The way you refuse to evolve is just...really embarrassing...have fun being stuck in the past while the rest of us move into the future (and catch up with the rest of the country/world bc MCPS is super behind in terms of the start/dismissal) [/quote]

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