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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our ES used to be an 8am start and moved to 9am this year. Kids got there at 740am for morning recess. From what I heard most teachers really miss the 8am start, so I don't think getting there was tough for them. Granted, I start work at 6am and pre covid we had people work in Loudon or WV that got there at 6am. They get off at 230pm, so it seemed worth it.

Anyway, all that to say. I generally really like early start. My kids were home by 3pm and had time to do HW or rest before sports. Now they pretty much come home and we are back out the door. They also had time to do after school enrichment, which we don't can't do because of sports conflicts.

However, if Congress really passes this bill to make DST standard the sun isn't going to rise until after the kids start school. That means ES age children are going to be walking to the bus in the dark, getting to school in the dark, and having morning recess in the dark. Since the playground is not lighted, I assume this will end morning recess.

I don't know I was really excited about the early start possibility and now I am not sure. 
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I worked at an 8:25 school and moved to 9 and it makes a huge difference in a bad way. I’d love to start at 7:30. I think teaching draws a lot of morning people. [/quote]

Option 4 is the best one. It moves MS to 9, but the ES start times are closer together and neither start before 7:50. 7:30 is too early for any kids, especially the Title 1 schools. Kids who ride buses at Title 1 schools have to arrive 20 minutes early for breakfast, so they’d have to be at school by 7:10, meaning buses could potentially be picking them up as early as 6:50 for longer routes, like the option schools. 7:50 isn’t that different than 8, when some schools start now, so it’s not as large a change for anyone in ES and it’s not such a difference between ES start times in option 4 either, in case you have a scenario where you have two kids in two different ES, like say one kid with a SpEd placement and the other in a neighborhood school, with potentially two different start times. And it gives parity to MS kids and HB isn’t the only school with a developmentally appropriate start for that age group. Kids in MS have late start activities anyway. Fields are assigned to younger kids earlier and the older kids don’t get them until later anyway, so sport activities outside of school likely won’t be impacted. My MS student has hardly any homework most days, so that also isn’t an issue.[/quote]

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