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I am of the camp that thinks the times should remain the same, or perhaps only change by 1/2 hour. These children will be in college, the military, or in the working world soon enough, where no one is going to make the starting time later to give them more sleep. Or should the colleges change their classes to start later, too? After all, kids are in their teens during their first few years of college...

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I don't know where you went to college, but there were absolutely zero classes that started before 8:00 where I went to college.  Add on the fact that most freshman and sophomore college students (the ones who are still teens) live pretty close to where their classes are held thus negating the necessity to wake up even earlier to catch a bus.  Bottom line...college freshman and sophomores wake up no earlier than 7:30 maybe three mornings a week, which is exactly what a later start time would enable MCPS HS students to do five mornings per week.

How many of us adults have to be at work by 7:25, necessitating a departure time of 6:45 or earlier every morning?  I'm betting very few, unless you're a HS teacher like me.  the working world argument doesn't hold water either.[/quote]

College kids don't go to bed until 12:30 or 1, or at least my college kids don't, because of all the dorm activity. If they have an 8 am class, they may be getting 6.5-7 hours of sleep a night. How is that much different than MCPS high school students who manage to get to bed by 11 and get up by 6?

The bottom line is that most teens aren't going to get as much sleep as the experts say they should anyway.

As far as adults leaving early for work, do you really think leaving by 6:45 is early? HAHA! I spent many years driving from MD to VA, where I had to be at my desk by 7:30. My DH leaves at 6:15 and some of my neighbors leave at 5:30, to fight the traffic going south to DC or VA. I appreciate the fact that you're an educator, but you aren't going to get much sympathy here for the time you have to go to work.

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