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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah I can see them ending Westerns day earlier so they can be bussed. The school is new, the issue is it was for K-12. The elementary area is scaled down (bathrooms etc) so they need to renovate it.  [/quote]

Can't do that. You have to be in school a minimum number of minutes and FCPS already stretches the definition by including transition time as instructional. [b]They can't start earlier, either, because all the runs are calibrated to line up with middle school start times.[/quote]
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But, that's the beauty of having the neighborhoods close by.  They could easily start earlier because they won't have to allow for long bus trips.

For example, Floris kids going to Westfield has to take at minimum 20 minutes. Trip to new school would easily be half that.
Oak Hill to Chantilly is close, but the new school is much, much closer.
Crossfield to Oakton?  Probably, they have to allow 40 minutes.  To new school?  Ten minutes for most, twenty minutes max for some further away.

Same for Fox Mill.
Slam dunk this will be more efficient for buses.[/quote]

It will be more efficient use of buses but 
the Western HS bell schedule still can't start earlier than the regular HS bell schedule. That would be a transportation logistics nightmare. And they can't let out earlier b/c FCPS counts minutes, not days.[/quote]

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