Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 20:11     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Elementary starting after 9 is ridiculous for all the families with two working parents. You end up on the SACC list for morning and afternoon, and paying for both (plus whatever you can get while you wait on the list). All ES should start by 9.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 19:25     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:here is the survey to start times they gave at the meeting last night

https://www.fcps.edu/considering-change-k-12-school-start-times



The need to keep high schools the same.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 18:01     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know why people freak out about "waiting in the dark." Human eyes adjust. Get a flashlight if needed. What are you even worried about, monsters?


Isn’t it kids getting killed by cars?


I thought it was concerns about getting run over by cars. Also, a lot of kids walk to school.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:45     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:But we won't know what most people think because they're hiding the options/"discussion." It's all so infuriating.


Start time survey had 2 options. No analysis of movement on changing AAP to in every middle school and reducing AAP ES feeds. Double bus routes in same neighborhoods use resources- drivers and vehicles.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:35     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
At this point, FCPS could probably gain some brownie points with parents if they would decide to just leave start times as they currently are. Boundaries, too.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:26     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
But we won't know what most people think because they're hiding the options/"discussion." It's all so infuriating.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:24     Subject: Re:Boundary Review Meetings
Amazing. The research defends later starts, but for many, may years, FCPS high schools early and the students were quite successful.

Maybe, they need to back off--just a little--on being so wedded to the late starts.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:15     Subject: Re:Boundary Review Meetings
I think most people think no change would be better than Option 1 or 2.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:13     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Why is there not broad comms on this versus just in these lightly attended meetings where people are talking boundaries? Ridiculous.


+1. Because they don’t actually want feedback but want to be able to say they asked for feedback.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:10     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Why is there not broad comms on this versus just in these lightly attended meetings where people are talking boundaries? Ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 17:00     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:I don't know why people freak out about "waiting in the dark." Human eyes adjust. Get a flashlight if needed. What are you even worried about, monsters?


Isn’t it kids getting killed by cars?
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 16:35     Subject: Re:Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So Option 1 is pretty much terrible for everyone except one group, the 8:10-2:55 elementary kids (too early for the other elementary 7:45 start).

Option 2 looks good for everyone except the latest elementary start (9:50-4:35) but it's really bad and 7 years of your life.

Just leave it alone.


There is currently an ES that starts at 8:00. Brookfield ES. I think fifteen minutes earlier is not a big deal. Young kids learn better in the morning.

FCPS lists current start times as 8:30-3:15 and 9:20-4:05, but there are a few schools (Brookfield being the earliest which start between 8:00-8:30. They haven’t explicitly stated it one way or the other, but it’s possible when they say 7:45-2:30, what they mean for Brookfield is 7:15-2:15, as in everyone shifts 45 minutes. They need to be more specific due to the existing staggered schedule and the fact that their “existing” start time doesn’t reflect the current earliest bell schedule.


So then you’re giving kids the 7:15-2:15 absurd middle school schedule for 7 years instead of just 2.


It's not absurd for 5-11 year olds...it's absurd for older kids who go to bed later and whose biological clocks are shifting. (Yes, I'm generalizing and I know some 5 year olds sleep late...but for most kids this is true.)


7:15 is a totally different story than 8 am I’m sorry. 7:15 for 7 years is crazy. Or it could be even longer if a kid is in Pre-K.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 16:34     Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
I don't know why people freak out about "waiting in the dark." Human eyes adjust. Get a flashlight if needed. What are you even worried about, monsters?
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 16:31     Subject: Re:Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So Option 1 is pretty much terrible for everyone except one group, the 8:10-2:55 elementary kids (too early for the other elementary 7:45 start).

Option 2 looks good for everyone except the latest elementary start (9:50-4:35) but it's really bad and 7 years of your life.

Just leave it alone.


There is currently an ES that starts at 8:00. Brookfield ES. I think fifteen minutes earlier is not a big deal. Young kids learn better in the morning.

FCPS lists current start times as 8:30-3:15 and 9:20-4:05, but there are a few schools (Brookfield being the earliest which start between 8:00-8:30. They haven’t explicitly stated it one way or the other, but it’s possible when they say 7:45-2:30, what they mean for Brookfield is 7:15-2:15, as in everyone shifts 45 minutes. They need to be more specific due to the existing staggered schedule and the fact that their “existing” start time doesn’t reflect the current earliest bell schedule.


So then you’re giving kids the 7:15-2:15 absurd middle school schedule for 7 years instead of just 2.


It's not absurd for 5-11 year olds...it's absurd for older kids who go to bed later and whose biological clocks are shifting. (Yes, I'm generalizing and I know some 5 year olds sleep late...but for most kids this is true.)
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2025 16:15     Subject: Re:Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Families will either need care from 7-10 am or 2:30-6 pm. What’s the difference?

But putting MS and HS into the late afternoon/evening makes no sense at all.

When do loudon’s middle and high schools start if elementary is early?


My friend’s kids are at Steuart Weller ES in Ashburn and their schedule is 7:30-2:15. It looks like Belmont Ridge MS is 8:50-3:38 and Riverside HS is 9:30-4:18. I think that’s too early for ES and too late for HS especially with activities and even jobs in the picture for HS kids. I don’t think they should be starting ES before 8 am.



I live in Loudoun and my nieces have gone through and are currently high schoolers. My nieces love the later high school time. They both have very busy extracurricular lives. Tons of after school coverage that pick up at ES.