It was consistent and it did have structure. Every Monday was the same. Now we have random days off scattered throughout the year. And the kids are not learning more because of full day Mondays. They've added remedial time at the end of each day which appears to be time for most kids to do whatever they want. They've counted 10 minutes of arrival time as instructional time. And they've introduced the worst foreign language experience. I've not heard a single kid who enjoys it at our school.

It boggles my mind how people on this board cannot understand that others may think differently about things. Some wanted full day Mondays. Others did not.

Some of us like to spend time with our children while they are young.

You can't find an additional 2.5 hours some other time? You are willing to give up consistency and structure in the school for 2.5 hours?

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Anonymous wrote:

I was also opposed to full day Mondays. Even if you wanted full day Mondays, you should be pleased with how they finally made that decision after years of discussion and debate, and how it finally occurred at the end of the school year.

Thank you--beat me to it!

Why in the world would anyone not want full day Mondays?

Some of us like to spend time with our children while they are young.

I loved Mondays with my kids. I actually am looking forward to relaxed mornings with them not rushing so much before school.

PP again, and I just realized an au pair really doesn't make sense because I wouldn't want to give up the afternoon SACC spots so I'd have to keep paying for that in addition to an au pair...

Very, very annoying

These bell schedule changes are incredibly frustrating. The schedule at my child's school has been the same for several years at least. We've never needed morning SACC and never considered it. Thanks to the bell schedule change it is going to be a problem for my DH to put my child on the bus and get to work on time (I leave early to get home early).

I just called about morning SACC - the waiting list is over a year long. I'm not sure what I'm going to do...morning care is almost impossible to find.

We might need to shell out major $$$ and get an au pair when, frankly, we really don't need one - my kids are only in afterschool SACC about 3-4 hours a week. In the morning I need someone for about 20 minutes. Argh...

Anonymous wrote:

I was also opposed to full day Mondays. Even if you wanted full day Mondays, you should be pleased with how they finally made that decision after years of discussion and debate, and how it finally occurred at the end of the school year.

Thank you--beat me to it!

Why in the world would anyone not want full day Mondays?

Some of us like to spend time with our children while they are young.

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Anonymous wrote:I was also opposed to full day Mondays. Even if you wanted full day Mondays, you should be pleased with how they finally made that decision after years of discussion and debate, and how it finally occurred at the end of the school year.

I'm an asshole.

Fixed it for you

I was also opposed to full day Mondays. Even if you wanted full day Mondays, you should be pleased with how they finally made that decision after years of discussion and debate, and how it finally occurred at the end of the school year.

Thank you--beat me to it!

Why in the world would anyone not want full day Mondays?

Anonymous wrote:I was also opposed to full day Mondays. Even if you wanted full day Mondays, you should be pleased with how they finally made that decision after years of discussion and debate, and how it finally occurred at the end of the school year.

FIFY

I'm not happy that our elementary school is in the latest group to start and end. It will really hurt the ability to be in after-school activities. I'm thinking my son will do his homework before school most days. Our other child is in private and leaves at 7:30 am for an 8 am start time. What else is he going to do at home between 7:30 and 9:10 when he would leave for the nearby elementary school starting at 9:20.

And how they said they would have money to fund it from the county but they did not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

They just released the new schedules today. These changes haven't even happened yet, so it's hard to see the result of the changes.

Ha! You mean we haven't switched to full day mondays yet? You mean they didn't increase the number of hours kids are in school each day? Because I'm pretty sure they started that already...

Everybody was clamoring for full-day Mondays. Now you've got them.

I wasn't. I was strongly opposed to full day mondays.

I was also opposed to full day Mondays. Even if you wanted full day Mondays, you should be concerned with how quickly they made that decision, and how it suddenly popped up at the end of the school year.

I am happier for the later start times. I have a child in a Secondary school who gets up at 5:40AM.

Well, the morons on the School Board got what they wanted - something to campaign on. I can't wait till it fails miserably and hang it around their necks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

Why does it take a half hour for your son to get to school?

My middle schooler's bus ride is nearly 40 minutes with traffic.

NP here. Sorry, you missed the point. The second poster is trying to bait the first into saying that her son goes to an AAP center, which usually involves long bus rides. Then this thread can devolve into AAP hating.

My child's bus ride to our neighborhood school a mile from our house is 30 minutes. It's the traffic and we are one of the first pickups.