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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It needs to be done.  Teens simply need more sleep. LA DC NY and more..all on same page here. 
https://apnews.com/article/school-start-times-pandemic-be81b0f5cb2b68fad3ce0a22dfd8ac1f[/quote]

It's easy! They can just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

Or, they can just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

Or, what if they just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

But they could just ... no, they considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons].

If you want high schools to start later, here's what you need to do: figure out how MCPS can get 160,000 students to school and back, every school day, without putting over 100,000 of them on a school bus. School start times in MCPS are a [u]transportation[/u] issue.

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No, it's not a transportation issue. It's a scheduling issue. They can rearrange start times, with HS last instead of first.[/quote]

They considered that, and decided against it, for [reasons]. 
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Nothing precludes them from changing their minds, for [reasons].[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Sure, but none of the factors on the ground have changed. It's still not efficient/possible to triple the bus fleet, and high schoolers still play sports, act in plays, and have afterschool jobs. [/quote]
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More and more research showing circadian rhythms shift later in adolescents. The can't effectively go to sleep as early as we'd like for an early school start. But keep denying science; it suits you.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36043490/

"It was shown that schoolchildren with [school start time] SST of 09:00 wake up at a later time on school days, sleep more, have less pronounced social jetlag and sleep loss, and higher academic performance than schoolchildren with SST of 08:00. As a result of logistic regression analysis, it was found that the frequency of the detection of food addiction is ~30% lower in schoolchildren with SST of 09:00 than in their peers with SST of 08:00."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15930216/

"The results of this study demonstrated that current high school start times contribute to sleep deprivation among adolescents. Consistent with a delay in circadian sleep phase, students performed better later in the day than in the early morning. "

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35659022/

"Early school start times negatively affect sleep in adolescents as well, with poorer outcomes in their overall health, wellbeing, and performance."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26545246/

"School start times were delayed 25-60 min, and correspondingly, total sleep time increased from 25 to 77 min per weeknight. Some studies revealed reduced daytime sleepiness, depression, caffeine use, tardiness to class, and trouble staying awake. Overall, the evidence supports recent non-experimental study findings and calls for policy that advocates for delayed school start time to improve sleep."
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And if you can figure out how to make it work, transportation-wise, we'll all be very grateful to you. But without that, nothing's going to change.[/quote]
That part's easy: flip ES and HS start times. It's the repercussions of that flip that have the opponents dug in. That part's hard.[/quote]

They considered that option thoroughly and made the best possible choice for [reasons] when this was debated several years ago.[/quote]

I don’t recall the analysis being that thorough, but the takeaway was that MCPS but a larger priority on after school jobs and sports than academic performance and health.  That’s their choice I guess, but a bit curious for a district that is always fretting about test scores.[/quote]

This! Academics seem low priority at MCPS. No final exams any more. Attendance means nothing. And who cares if period 1 is a wasted period in HS because the kids are half asleep or absent or trickle in late [/quote]

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