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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Per usual, their survey sucks. They also don’t make it clear that if you are currently a late start ES, you get the crappy late start in option 2, putting kids in school at 9:50am.

Both of these plans have flaws that make them far worse than middle schoolers waking up super early for two years. And I say that as someone who taught middle school both before and after the start times changed. The school board needs to just leave start times alone. [/quote]

I've taught middle school for almost 30 years-- when we started at 7:25-7:30, when we started at 8:00, and when we again started at 7:30.

The early schedule is definitely the best. Middle schooler students are tired in the mornings regardless of start times, but they are far better behaved and do better academically than when we started at 8:00. The later school start, even by just 30 minutes, led to far more behavior issues and kids being done with academics by 12:30, which meant their last few classes were a struggle to get through. [/quote]

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