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[quote=Anonymous]People need to stop looking at shift schedules as a money saver, and focus on its value as a tool to reset the population.

Take Washington-Lee High School. Although there are certainly a number of Lyon Village-level households sending their kids there, they’re stuck with APAH and AHC kids who undermine their sense of security and thus their ability to perform in school.

The shift schedule works wonders in this regard. The easy solution is to run IB, AP, Honors and high-level College track courses during the normal school day. Use your regular faculty there. Then hire term-level and sub teachers to run the gen-Ed and remedial courses during the second shift.

On average you’re going to get your families with “skin in the game” for the normal shift, and the less desirable kids in the afternoon/evening session. Sports will run fine; the second shift kids can work around team schedules for PE. So long as you quarantine the second-shift kids into their own wing of classrooms, clubs will run fine as well.[/quote]

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