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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they are going with option 2, as it only shifts everyone by 30 minutes. [/quote]

That 30 minutes takes late start elementary schools (9:20 am right now) from late but reasonably doable to a completely unreasonable 9:50-4:35. There's no way that lower elementary kids are going to be functionally learning until 4:35 pm, especially if a lot of them are up early to be dropped at before care so their parents can make it to work.

The only reasonable option is leaving things as is. [/quote]

This was brought up at our community conversation and they agreed a 9:50 start time is not good for ES, so don’t think it will be happening. [/quote]

But yet a 7:30 am start time isn’t good for middle school.[/quote]

No one is disagreeing,  but middle school is 2 years while ES ranges from preschool to grade 6. There are 141 ES and only and 25 middle schools. The 9:20-4:05 schedule already sucks with young kids. There are no schools in the US that have ES kids starting school at 9:50 (almost 10:00). They should choose neither plan. [/quote]

Not only that, but the studies that show the need for later start times for middle schoolers include 6th grade. 5th graders have almost the same effects seen.

Basically moving the elementary to the early start times would still be “harming” 2 grade levels, along with the other issues of starting elementary so early. [/quote]

ALL kids should be going to school between 8:00-4:00. IMO…

Option 1 would have been better is high school was left alone and middle school went from 9:20-4:05 like the current late ES goes. [/quote]

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