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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you have all gone soft. Get the kids out of bed. It has been done for decades.

Goodness knows all this hand wringing over start times has been stupid and has caused logistical headaches of our own creation.[/quote]

I’ve had multiple kids go through middle school and they survived high school and got into college with zero trauma from the middle school start time. [/quote]

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Just wait until these kids go to work.......or have an 8 a.m. class in college._[/quote]

I've been saying this from the beginning. All this fuss about middle schoolers needing more sleep while ignoring the high schoolers whose grades actually matter and who, developmentally, probably need more sleep than middle schoolers. But for some reason the high schoolers are untouchable. It's okay for middle schoolers to get more sleep in the morning but have a nightmarish evening every day as they get home at 530, rush to eat, get homework done, and get to activities but it's not okay for high schoolers.  It makes zero sense.

If you're really going to say this is all about sleep needs, you need to do elementary first, then middle, then high school.  But they won't do that.  Middle school is like the red headed step child here who just gets shoved wherever and are told to suck it up.  If we're going to have to "suck it up" then I'd rather do that for two years at 730 than two years at 930.

Also, how dumb is a 930 start for middle when two years later you have to switch to 8am?  That's an instant loss of 90 minutes of sleep...that one thing you're claiming they all so desperately need.
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A child's body is growing, transitioning mentally and physically, a full grown adult is essentially decaying, and getting closer to dying, which one needs more sleep? [/quote]

You need to look at actual data to be informed about this question. If we are going to look at middle schoolers versus high schoolers. [b]It’s the high schoolers who sleep needs should be prioritized.[/b] This is the age where a really important neurodevelopmental process called synaptic pruning is occurring, along with maturation of the prefrontal cortex. It’s not as simple as saying, “kids are growing thus they need more sleep”.[/quote][/quote]

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