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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the same white liberal quackery that tries to reinvent things no one needs or asked them to.

White liberals screamed for year-round school and touted all kinds of supposed benefits and pointed to data on how much learning loss happens. So MCPS introduced the innovative school year calendar and now the staff at Roscoe Nix are crying to the BOE every month about how awful it is, how their families hate it and how they’re dying to go back to the traditional school year calendar.

White liberal fantasies rarely stand up to reality.[/quote]
Science denialism strikes again!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25156998/

"the evidence strongly implicates earlier school start times (ie, before 8:30 am) as a key modifiable contributor to insufficient sleep, as well as circadian rhythm disruption, in this population. Furthermore, a substantial body of research has now demonstrated that delaying school start times is an effective countermeasure to chronic sleep loss and has a wide range of potential benefits to students with regard to physical and mental health, safety, and academic achievement."[/quote]

The same data points were pulled out about learning loss due to summers in favor of the innovative school year calendars. But those data points don’t seem to matter as staff, students and parents hate year-round school and are demanding to revert to the traditional school calendar.

You are advocating for a pushed back start time of 30-45 minutes. I promise you that teenagers will find a a way to eat that time up as they will adjust their bed times later.

You have to stop living in fantasyland.

Furthermore, when I was in MCPS, our start time was 7:15. So we’ve already given these kids 30 minutes back by starting HS at 7:45. And now you’re saying it’s still not enough. You’ll never be satisfied and you’ll never hold yourself accountable for the obvious negative trade offs that come with your idealized fantasy of kids starting HS at 9 am.[/quote]
And you walked uphill both ways in the snow. I get it. Your personal experience and opinion are more important than peer reviewed science. AKA science denialism.[/quote]

You can find a study to prove your wishes on any topic.  If your kids cannot get up for hs, homeschool or look at other options.

And, mcps has a two mike rule for hs so sone kids are walking uphill in snow.  [/quote]
Find us a peer-reviewed study showing it's better for adolescents to get up earlier. [/quote]

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