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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Right now high school is 8:10 am (not 8 am) and most people think that’s fine. In fact, they were only considering changing start times for middle school, without affecting the high school times. That was explicitly stated by FCPS. Who said we can’t start before 8:30 am? Prism? They were hired to come up with ideas that for what FCPS wants. FCPS doesn’t want to mess with the HS schedule. But they agree 7:30 am sucks. Option 2 allows it to happen so that MS gets 8 am and HS gets 8:40 am. That’s a win for us.[/quote]

No,  that is a huge loss for high school.

Remember, it is not even all middle schools that start at 7:30.

All of the middle schools located at secondary schools start on the later high school schedule.

It is only the stand alone middle schools that start early.[/quote]

There are 23 standalone middle schools and only 6 secondary schools.

Anyway, I have an 8th and 10th grader so I vote leave as is. All I care about right now is HS and we like 8:10 start time. [/quote]

There are 3 secondary schools and at least one of them starts at 8:00[/quote]

Robinson
Hayfield
South County
Lake Braddock

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South County is not a secondary school any more, and hasn't been for quite a while.[/quote]

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