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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]In just about every public school system around the country elementary schools start before 8 am, usually by 7:30, and then middle schools and then high schools. [/b]

I'm not sure why this is so hard. And yes ES schools get out earlier, but when you choose to have children and put them in public schools, which are free, you have to figure out how to take provide child care for them.

After a certain point ES kids are perfectly capable of being at home by themselves for a few hours after school. By 5th grade most kids drop out of SACC because they are capable of being at home by themselves for a few hours.

Eliminate all of the random days off, shorten the school year, summer camps are easy to figure out.

If we must have one day a week off because of the need to observe every religious holiday in existence then put your kids in day camps.

Or lobby hard to put an end to the ridiculousness that is one day a week off, usually in the middle of the week, every week for one random religious holiday after another. [/quote]

This is absolutely not true. Stop making things up.[/quote]

I taught elementary for years in three systems. Not FCPS.  We always started at 8--except for one year when they had us start at 7.  The county switched it back because people did not like little ones out in the dark.
Tardy at 8:15.  And, that is what my elementary school did, too, when I was growing up.  [/quote]

Growing up, my ES started at 9:00. [/quote]

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