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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The comments about "Oh, no, we can't do this" in 2014 were intense.

The 20-minute push wasn't great, but at least it was a start for the HS & MS kids. [b]It totally sucks for the ES kids, though[/b].[/quote]

Why?

Can't they swap ES and HS start times?[/quote]

The 2014 "push everything back 20 minutes" approach resulted in some of the ESs in MCPS starting at 9:35 AM.

As others have said, ES kids are up at the crack of dawn. Ideally, they'd start first and definitely not after 9:30 AM. It also means [b]they dismiss later [/b]and some the youngest ones have fallen asleep on the afternoon bus.

No, the school system "can't swap" those start times. MCPS BOE wasn't agreeable to that in 2014.[/quote]

ES students can have their Specials (art music library p.e. and either academic, foreign language, computer literary or other support time) at the end of the day. That is 45 min of Specials at the end of the day. Can't they start school day at 8am (7:45am if they need breakfast) and end at 3pm with Specials from 2:15 - 3pm? Maybe add in 15 more minutes in the day for recess/non academic time. It's a shame that schools were not creative to create a different type of schedule post pandemic. During virtual learning, the students had blocks and had Wednesday afternoon for academic support extra work time. It's not that hard if people are willing to think and plan to put us in the 21st century. Alas, so many are stuck to the 20th century model.[/quote]

What are you suggesting?  That somehow the music teacher, who is a likely a full time employee, will only teach during the last 45 minutes of the day, and yet all the kids in the school, will get a reasonable amount of music?  And somehow this will solve the problem of there not being enough school buses?[/quote]

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