Seriously, OP, you would have bought a house in a different neighborhood because of a 30 min difference in school start time???

Wow.

I feel your pain, OP! We have a 9:15 start time and I absolutely HATE it!

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like she might be a rising k parent. Is the difference that large? Our school changed theirs by 5 minutes. What was your morning plan to begin with?

The OP's school changed the time by 30 minutes (later).

Sounds like she might be a rising k parent. Is the difference that large? Our school changed theirs by 5 minutes. What was your morning plan to begin with?

We received notification in the spring. It was sent out to parents by Keep in Touch messages as well as in paper newsletters.

at another school, but we received an email and a paper letter about bell changes back in the spring.

To the OP,

Even if the bells had stayed the same this year, it's not a guarantee that they will be the same next year or the year after. It's also not a guarantee that the other home you might have selected would have stayed the same.

Bell schedules change. It's something you just have to adapt to.... my school's bell is changing to 30 min. earlier... we will deal with it.

Sorry to hear that. I'm a principal in FCPS, and we told parents in late April of the change in our bell schedule via newsletters. The new time is in all of our kindergarten registration info.

Definitely received notification of this in the spring.

It looks like the times changed boy only 5-15 minutes, or am I reading it wrong?

They're analyzing the bussing again this year, so next year it could change again.

We were notified of the changes this spring and I'm pretty sure there were hearings and opportunities for community feedback prior to that.

We have been on SACC's waiting list for nearly a year at this point

You can still drop her off at SACC, right?

Hi all,

I was alarmed when I checked my daughter's soon to be school and was astonished to see they changed their school hours, without any notice to the parents! We attended registration back in May for Newington Forest Elementary and not once was it ever mentioned of this upcoming change. Had I known this would have heavily influenced where we would have moved to....Has anyone been notifed of these changes, and why weren't parents informed. For any working parent this throws us for a loop.

http://www.fcps.edu/news/bellschedule.shtml