Reply to MCPS to study later start times

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "MCPS to study later start times"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [b]Or should the colleges change their classes to start later, too?[/b] After all, kids are in their teens during their first few years of college...

[/quote]

Have you looked at college class schedules lately? How many of the classes start at 7:30 am?[/quote]

I took 7am classes every year at college in the 90's. Left school by 11:30am and worked a FT job as a nanny from 12-8pm. Came home and studied/HW until 11pm-12am.  Up at 6:15am.  If kids had to do that this day and age, they would cry like little babies.  From this thread, it seems like their mommies would too.   But guess what?  I graduated as an RN in 3yrs with zero student loans, was working full time in 2 months and my work has paid for all my other education and now I am a nurse practitioner. Again, no debt, no loans and living a pretty decent life.  And I went to high school super early.  I can't remember the exact time but it was before 8am and we would get picked up at a bus stop in the dark.  I made it thru and so will your kids.  They have it easier than any other generation before them but it is the parents that are enabling them and making it worse. Coddling them, giving them iPhones to waste their free time away, not making them work and support themselves. Lazy lazy lazy.   Then they go into college, rack up loans, don't work thru college and graduate and struggle to find a job with debt up to their eyeballs.  But I am sure changing the whole county's system so they can go to bed one hour later and wake up one hour later will make them bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, self-sufficient kids all of a sudden. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics