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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a large (4,000+ students) high school with shift schedules. From sophomore year onward, my classes began around 7 and ended around noon. The last period was lunch and that wasn't mandatory. Getting up at 5 am wasn't fun but otherwise, I loved it. It made it easy for me get to an after school job, do an extracurricular, and still have plenty of time to do homework.

There's nothing wrong with shift schedules. It's good solution to student overpopulation. 
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Same here.  By default, 9th graders had second shift, 10th was split, and 12th had 1st. JV sports and lower level band were in the morning, varsity were in the afternoon.  Clubs went where the majority of students were. It all worked out well. [/quote]

I'm curious if your high schools still use split schedules, 20 years on?

It seems to me split scheduling is worth considering if there is simply a short term demographic bulge that needs to be accomodated, without building permanent infrastructure that won't be needed later. That's why we have community centers; boomers went to school in them as children then moved away to have children elsewhere, so the population here sank in the 1970s.

However, if the understanding is that the school-aged pop. is never going to go down, then what is being suggested is that shifts become a permanent condition. That won't happen, I think. People will simply leave and ease overcrowding that way. Is there any case of a district using shifts for a decade or more? I'd be interested to read that as a case study. My guess is that it's pretty rare because shift scheduling probably depresses demand. It's a last resort to a crisis, not a strategic decision, whatever it's merits.

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