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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If start times for middle school move later than 8 (possibly 830) it will decimate my department at my school. So many of them can't make the later start time work with their commute. [/quote]

Middle school teachers need to organize and speak up.

Reid is hell bent on destroying the schedule for everyone to appease a tiny handful of middle school parents.[/quote]

We've been trying.  Middle school principals collectively said "leave the times alone" (I had one principal commute in from Aldie and another from Maryland...I can't even imagine their commutes if MS got moved to something stupid like 930-430).  Teachers filled in the surveys and gave their feedback.

Even PARENT feedback VERY CLEARLY showed 8/830 was the preferred start time if it had to change.  NO ONE wanted a 930 start time for middle school and yet the county started pushing that as a viable option (alongside the "just move everyone by 30 minutes" suggestion).  They were going to do a trial run of that horrible late start time in...Mason District I think?  And abandoned it.  Never got an answer as to why.

Did you know that there are a ton of middle school busses that run half full?  That doesn't happen with elementary or high school.  Why can't we look at combining nearby middle and high school busses so that they can start at the same time (8/810)?  I'm so over the "I don't want my 7th grade on a bus with older kids" nonsense.  First of all, secondary kids do it all day every day and it's no big deal.  Second of all, almost no juniors and seniors ride busses so it's really not that big of an age gap.

It could actually help with shortening bus runs if we could combine both.  If a bus can pick up middle and high school at the same time, they could fill up their bus with fewer stops and shorten the commute for those kids.

Maybe it's time to suck it up and just spend the money on more busses?

I don't know what the final solution will be but they need to leave well enough alone, let the middle schoolers have two years of a 730 schedule and move on from this nonsense.

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