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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If school starts late when should club activities begin and end?  How about athletics?  Practise in the dark with the sun setting or mandate lit fields?[/quote]

DC's high school day ends at 2:10pm.  You could still have clubs and sports even if they had to start at 3:30.[/quote]

Look - at the SIS BOOM RAH RAH RAH schools, where kids are driving their BMWs to school, this is fine. But for OUR students, who work after school, it's not ideal.  I have one student who works at Giant, M-F from 3-11 to help pay the rent.

I am amazed at the bubbles DCUMers live in. . .

tragic

May Obama win this one one again!  [/quote]

Aren't most GIANTs open till at least midnight? Is the 3pm shift start time mandated across the state? If high school started at 8 instead of 7, wouldn't shopkeepers who employ high school students simply adjust shift times to start at 4pm? Is it a good thing for a high-schooler to be working until midnight? Of course not. But how is it much worse than working until 11, given that he will now have another hour of sleep in the morning?

Also, I may be privileged, sheltered and misinformed,  but we are talking Montgomery county here, not some poverty-stricken war zone. I am all in favor of teenagers learning the value of a dollar the hard way, but the majority of high school students who have jobs do it for the extra spending money. Theirs isn't the only paycheck standing between their family and eviction. So is it really such a bad thing if some of these jobs do end up going to adults with families to feed?[/quote]

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