Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 10:03     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days


You are thinking too narrowly. Public schools have a huge amount of wasted, non-learning time during the day. Breaks, transitions, for elementary students there are too many "specials", for older kids free periods. You could easily accomplish the same amount of actual learning in a shorter school day if you tried, with no need to extend the school day or school year.

But people get attached to the idea of "instructional hours" as an essential metric for school quality without thinking critically about how many of those instructional hours actually include instruction. It's so many fewer than you think. Your kids are dragging themselves to school at 7 or 8 am in order to spend half of their school day waiting, walking between classes, or engaged in an independent activity they could easily do at home.


How are you proposing to do away from walking between classes?
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 10:02     Subject: The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:11:20 is not a good time for my elementary schooler to start.


Same. My kid has been crawling up the walls.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:59     Subject: The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
11:20 is not a good time for my elementary schooler to start.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:51     Subject: The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
OP wants 2 hours less learning every day.

That's going to be a significant loss of class time.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:26     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days


Longer school year with shorter days. It's stupid for kids who don't live on farms to stress themselves out to have all summer off.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:25     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days


You are thinking too narrowly. Public schools have a huge amount of wasted, non-learning time during the day. Breaks, transitions, for elementary students there are too many "specials", for older kids free periods. You could easily accomplish the same amount of actual learning in a shorter school day if you tried, with no need to extend the school day or school year.

But people get attached to the idea of "instructional hours" as an essential metric for school quality without thinking critically about how many of those instructional hours actually include instruction. It's so many fewer than you think. Your kids are dragging themselves to school at 7 or 8 am in order to spend half of their school day waiting, walking between classes, or engaged in an independent activity they could easily do at home.


I'm not sure how you would get rid of transitions. I do feel strongly that "specials" are important. For some kids there may just be one part of the school week where they feel successful. That might not be math or reading. It could be art, music or PE. I didn't always appreciate this
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:24     Subject: The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Absolutely extend the day longer. Start at 940 instead of 740 and get out around 445. Most parents work until 5ish so that makes things easier for literally everyone.

Also agree that having off of school for 9 weeks in the summer is antiquated. Schools have AC now (and honestly , it’s super hot in August when they go back anyways so the AC argument is dumb). Have a 2 week break in June and a 2 week break in August and go to school for July.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:19     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days


You are thinking too narrowly. Public schools have a huge amount of wasted, non-learning time during the day. Breaks, transitions, for elementary students there are too many "specials", for older kids free periods. You could easily accomplish the same amount of actual learning in a shorter school day if you tried, with no need to extend the school day or school year.

But people get attached to the idea of "instructional hours" as an essential metric for school quality without thinking critically about how many of those instructional hours actually include instruction. It's so many fewer than you think. Your kids are dragging themselves to school at 7 or 8 am in order to spend half of their school day waiting, walking between classes, or engaged in an independent activity they could easily do at home.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:12     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days


3. + instead of random scattered days off or teacher days, gather them up to a week in like March. Longer year but more solid chunks of time off. Don't need a whole summer. 2 weeks here, 2 weeks there, 1 week here or there....


Yes! And they don't need every holiday off.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:10     Subject: The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Yes, I remember my kids getting up so early. They were pretty sleep deprived in secondary school. I think a longer school year with shorter days is the answer.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:09     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days


3. + instead of random scattered days off or teacher days, gather them up to a week in like March. Longer year but more solid chunks of time off. Don't need a whole summer. 2 weeks here, 2 weeks there, 1 week here or there....
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:09     Subject: The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Maybe OP just wants less larnin'.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:08     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Anonymous wrote:Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days


Yes why not, that's what time everyone gets off work it's good
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:08     Subject: Re:The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:05     Subject: The 2 hours delays are the right time to start school!!!
My middle schooler is so much more rested and happier to go to school this should be the real start time.


Same with my highschooler