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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m in a neighboring county where this was implemented. It’s really impacting the elementary kids and their families. There aren’t older kids out at 2:30/3 and parents are struggling to pick them up. Parents get out of work at 3:30 and only need 30 min of aftercare. Aftercare schedules still aren’t up to full capacity yet because of covid too. Maybe aftercare is nbd for most of dcum but it’s just another expense that lower income people can’t afford. Lots of kids are walking home to empty homes. [/quote]

If you go back and read the study MCPS commissioned back in 2014-15, you see that [b]moving elementary school to an earlier start time had benefits:
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[quote]Eliminate the need for both before and after-school day care (e.g., start school early enough
for working parents to drop off students on the way to work); several commenters reported
that after-school child care was easier to arrange than before-school child care, and early
start times were more compatible with the needs of working parents than later start times.
However, eliminating or reducing the need for before-school child care may be offset by
an increase in after-school child care costs if the elementary school day ends in the early
afternoon.[/quote]

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/Bell%20Times%20Analysis%20Addl%20Options%20Jan2015.pdf[/quote]

Yes, it did. It also had disadvantages.

[i]While this model might be most responsive to available sleep science about adolescents, concern 
was expressed about elementary school students waiting at bus stops in the early morning and the 
lack  of  after-school  supervision  for  those  elementary-age  children  currently  cared  for  by  older 
siblings  who  would  get  home  from  school  later  under  this  model.  The  later  high  school  release 
time  complicates  high  school  students’  after-school  activities.  Further,  the  later  start  for  middle  
school students raises the concern that students without sufficient morning supervision may have 
difficulty getting ready for school, making the bus, or getting to school on their own.[/i][/quote]

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