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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bell times have worked for decades and decades.  What has changed is high school workload, the increase in sport practice times, the increase in extra curriculars, and the ever obvious increase in electronics and screens.  THESE are the problems and all of those things can be changed for FREE.

The homework could be decreased or given more time than one night to complete. Sports games could be shortened, practices could be 3 or 4 days a week instead of all 5.  Parents could chill the F out on all the extras their kids are in including  tutors and test prep classes.   And phones/computers/tv could be taken away by 9-10pm.

My daughter is a swimmer.  She is in the pool at 5:30am.  She is in bed no later than 10pm and on really tiring days, she is snoring by 9pm.  There is no messed up rhythm for her.  She is active and needs sleep and not having any phone or computer in her room allows her to de-stress and fall asleep. [b]Any teen can do it. [/b]

I don't care what the studies say.  If you change the bell times, the kids in IB will still be up later working. The sports kids will be getting home later and starting homework later, and (shocker) staying up later at night.  The kids on Instagram will think they have an extra hour to text/chat.  It will not change.  It hasn't in Fairfax after they spent over 10 million to study and implement it.  Kids still complain of no time and lack of sleep.  They are overworked.  THAT is the problem.  [/quote]

:roll:

Not every kid is a jock like your daughter. Some kids love -- gasp! -- reading, cooking, sewing, building robots, etc. Some kids are on the computer for hours because they are incredibly smart and writing computer code is their hobby.

Sure every teen "can" do what your daughter does, but we don't exactly need only swimmers in the world. I'd like to have doctors, computer scientists, authors, etc pursuing their passions from a young age, too, thank you.[/quote]

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