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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep the current schedule.

Middle schoolers are fine with the current schedule
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LOL, no, they're not at all.  C2 it is.  E defeats the whole point of this exercise by not shifting MS late enough, and causes everyone else to shift as well. "Ease of communication"? What a horsesh!t justification... "Dear parents, next year Larla's school will be shifting their bell schedule to <X>".  Doesn't really matter what X is

c2 is the best option. It gives middle school a late start and reasonable hours for ES and high school. [/quote]

Are you stupid????? Late start and coming home late is awful for middler schoolers, this is the age where they start getting serious about sports and they need time to decompress between getting home from school and going to practice. Your teeny tiny ES baby's soccer practice is not nearly as important. These are formative years.[/quote]

Turns out I'm not. American Association of Pediatrics (and many other experts) agree that late start time is healthier and leads to better outcomes for MS-aged students.

I have both ES and MS students. They enjoy sports and learn good values from them (and frankly my MS is becoming less serious about sports and more serious about schoolwork, though they do still participate on teams, one travel sport, one rec sport), but I'm hardly going to disadvantage their academics and overall well-being for the sake of more convenient practice logistics.  And FWIW, my "teeny tiny ES baby" is actually bigger than my MS student as fate would have it despite being two years younger, but such is just the randomness of genes.[/quote]

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