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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]

Middle school kids are a little over 10% of the student population.

Elementary is a little over half the population,  and high school is close to 40% of the student population.

The 10% of middle school kids can take one for the team [/quote]

100% agree. Keep things how they are. Use the next bond to buy more school busses, then start middle school at 8:00.

Or better yet, stop bussing to AAP programs.[/quote]

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