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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all the hoopla around the later HS start times and justification of the Millions $$$ spent, their was no mention of the MS students getting screwed. Bait and Switch.  Karen Garza was so eager to get this through that there was no transparency about the downside, which should have been discussed. Certainly, no one raised this at our MS last year. When you add this to the high stakes budget BS, she's building a lot of distrust. [/quote]

There was mention, but no one listened. I was extremely vocal about what would happen to middle schoolers. Not only are they getting up at some godforsaken hour, but they are now the group that will spend the most time alone, unsupervised in the afternoons until their parents can get home. And 13 is the perfect age for that, huh?

It's terrible. These poor kids. [/quote]

Let's be fair: what trouble could a 12 or 13 year old boy, home alone 2:30-6 or 6:30 possibly get into? *shudder*.  Certainly not sex, drugs and binging on video games. And what could possibly go wrong having 12 year old girls walking alone to the bus or school in the dark?  But hey!  We spent $5 million so it must be right![/quote]

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