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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP -- I am the poster you are responding to.   Just for the record, I am an elementary school teacher and I can definitely see how kids coming late every single day can be a pain in the a--, and can even (perhaps) impeded the ability of other children to learn... although quite honestly, I think very few classrooms are that finely tuned where a child entering 2 or 4 minutes late EVERY DAY would really, truly hinder much of anything.  I'm just being honest here.[/quote]

But what if all the kids' parents decided that the school's start time was a sort of serving suggestion? If you had kids drifting in every day, up to ten minutes late, would that be a problem.

The fact that the parents still can't get their kids there on time even when they get up 15 minutes earlier tells me that this is not about a packed morning schedule. It's about misplaced sense of entitlement, and the biggest favor the school can do for the kids is to tell them No. [/quote]

The fact is very few parents drop their kids off late, in fact the bigger problem in schools I work at is parents dropping their kids off too early.  The majority of parents both work and they are counting the schools for child care.   So they DO manage to get their kids to school on time, because they have to get to work on time.  [/quote]

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