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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High school should not start before 8 am. 
Follow the science, people![/quote]

College classes start at 8 am. How do you expect high schoolers to be preppy for that if they’ve never had to do that before?[/quote]

Tell them not to sign up for 8 am classes. [/quote]

Right. Because that’s always an option. You people are unserious.[/quote]

No, you're just stuck in 1960. I work in higher ed. It basically is ALWAYS an option. If it isn't, the kid will figure it out and make it work. They don't need four years of "prepping" to potentially wake up for a class that might not ever happen for them. You are an "unserious" person. [/quote]

So why can they "figure it out" in college when they 18, but not when they're in high school when they're 18? Make it make sense.[/quote]

Are you just stupid? Not all high schoolers are 18. [/quote]

Where did I say "all high schoolers are 18"? I used that age because someone who is 18 will both be a high schooler and a college student. So why would the expectation be that it is impossible for them to wake up 8 am when they're an 18 yo high schooler, but that they'll "figure it out" when they're college student?

Also, the idea that waking up at 7 am is some kind of wicked hardship and cruelty is hilarious and laughable and again speaks to the rampant infantilization, helicopter parenting and entitlement enabling that has ruined kids' resilience.[/quote]

I don't think anybody has said it's *impossible* for an 18-year-old to *wake up* at 8 am.

For what it's worth, my high school kid gets up at 5:30 am for a 7:00 am school bus for a 7:45 am school start, and my college kid gets up at 9:55 for their 10 am class, which is their earliest class. So I'm pretty sure my high school kid would have the getting-up-in-college thing figured out even if high school didn't start until 8:30 am.[/quote]

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