I think in an are like this one with so many two parent working families, and a cost if living that requires that in many cases, the fact that SACC is not available to all who need it is inexcusable. I'd be happy to pay more for it, have costs be based on income, etc...but they need to have the spots.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe FCPS should be offering resiliency presentations to FCPS parents, and not the students.

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Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.

The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.

The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).

Yes, but most of them are adjusting 5 to 10 minutes. Somehow I think the kindergartners will survive. Nearly a half hour at the end of the day seems to be packing up anyhow.

What's strikes me is that we're hearing very little on these boards from people making the biggest changes -- the high schoolers and middle schoolers. I suspect that's in part because parents are more seasoned with the school system -- they also realize having had kids in MS and perhaps HS as well as ES, that it's not all about them and their kids. Honestly, the people whining about 5 and 10 minute changes at their elementary schools when some middle schoolers will have to be on the bus by 6:30, need to chill and perhaps develop a little resilience if they're going to keep their kids in the public school system. There are a lot of different needs to be met here.

Seriously, you're a jerk. Doesn't affect you, so you don't care.

Plus, plenty of us have kids in elementary, middle, and high school all at once. We're plenty seasoned, thank you.

I agree with the PP. You adjust your schedule to deal with the public school schedule, or you find another option. The petulant ranting about relatively the changes that were made to accommodate the broader community's request, over an extended period, for later HS start times is truly annoying.

It's cute that you believe that the broader community wanted this.

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Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.

The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.

The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).

Yes, but most of them are adjusting 5 to 10 minutes. Somehow I think the kindergartners will survive. Nearly a half hour at the end of the day seems to be packing up anyhow.

What's strikes me is that we're hearing very little on these boards from people making the biggest changes -- the high schoolers and middle schoolers. I suspect that's in part because parents are more seasoned with the school system -- they also realize having had kids in MS and perhaps HS as well as ES, that it's not all about them and their kids. Honestly, the people whining about 5 and 10 minute changes at their elementary schools when some middle schoolers will have to be on the bus by 6:30, need to chill and perhaps develop a little resilience if they're going to keep their kids in the public school system. There are a lot of different needs to be met here.

Seriously, you're a jerk. Doesn't affect you, so you don't care.

Plus, plenty of us have kids in elementary, middle, and high school all at once. We're plenty seasoned, thank you.

I agree with the PP. You adjust your schedule to deal with the public school schedule, or you find another option. The petulant ranting about relatively the changes that were made to accommodate the broader community's request, over an extended period, for later HS start times is truly annoying.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe FCPS should be offering resiliency presentations to FCPS parents, and not the students.

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Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.

The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.

The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).

Yes, but most of them are adjusting 5 to 10 minutes. Somehow I think the kindergartners will survive. Nearly a half hour at the end of the day seems to be packing up anyhow.

What's strikes me is that we're hearing very little on these boards from people making the biggest changes -- the high schoolers and middle schoolers. I suspect that's in part because parents are more seasoned with the school system -- they also realize having had kids in MS and perhaps HS as well as ES, that it's not all about them and their kids. Honestly, the people whining about 5 and 10 minute changes at their elementary schools when some middle schoolers will have to be on the bus by 6:30, need to chill and perhaps develop a little resilience if they're going to keep their kids in the public school system. There are a lot of different needs to be met here.

Seriously, you're a jerk. Doesn't affect you, so you don't care.

Plus, plenty of us have kids in elementary, middle, and high school all at once. We're plenty seasoned, thank you.

Not the case at all. When my kids were in elementary they adjusted the time later by 15 minutes. Somehow I survived. And again, I have complete sympathy with someone who's kid's day has shifted by 40 minutes. But people complaining about 5 to 10 minute changes when there are plenty of others in the FCPS facing much bigger changes/hardships just strikes me as entitled. Sorry if that comes off as jerky to you.

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Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.

The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.

The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).

Yes, but most of them are adjusting 5 to 10 minutes. Somehow I think the kindergartners will survive. Nearly a half hour at the end of the day seems to be packing up anyhow.

What's strikes me is that we're hearing very little on these boards from people making the biggest changes -- the high schoolers and middle schoolers. I suspect that's in part because parents are more seasoned with the school system -- they also realize having had kids in MS and perhaps HS as well as ES, that it's not all about them and their kids. Honestly, the people whining about 5 and 10 minute changes at their elementary schools when some middle schoolers will have to be on the bus by 6:30, need to chill and perhaps develop a little resilience if they're going to keep their kids in the public school system. There are a lot of different needs to be met here.

Seriously, you're a jerk. Doesn't affect you, so you don't care.

Plus, plenty of us have kids in elementary, middle, and high school all at once. We're plenty seasoned, thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.

The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.

The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).

Yes, but most of them are adjusting 5 to 10 minutes. Somehow I think the kindergartners will survive. Nearly a half hour at the end of the day seems to be packing up anyhow.

What's strikes me is that we're hearing very little on these boards from people making the biggest changes -- the high schoolers and middle schoolers. I suspect that's in part because parents are more seasoned with the school system -- they also realize having had kids in MS and perhaps HS as well as ES, that it's not all about them and their kids. Honestly, the people whining about 5 and 10 minute changes at their elementary schools when some middle schoolers will have to be on the bus by 6:30, need to chill and perhaps develop a little resilience if they're going to keep their kids in the public school system. There are a lot of different needs to be met here.

Seriously, you're a jerk. Doesn't affect you, so you don't care.

Plus, plenty of us have kids in elementary, middle, and high school all at once. We're plenty seasoned, thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.

The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.

The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).

Yes, but most of them are adjusting 5 to 10 minutes. Somehow I think the kindergartners will survive. Nearly a half hour at the end of the day seems to be packing up anyhow.

What's strikes me is that we're hearing very little on these boards from people making the biggest changes -- the high schoolers and middle schoolers. I suspect that's in part because parents are more seasoned with the school system -- they also realize having had kids in MS and perhaps HS as well as ES, that it's not all about them and their kids. Honestly, the people whining about 5 and 10 minute changes at their elementary schools when some middle schoolers will have to be on the bus by 6:30, need to chill and perhaps develop a little resilience if they're going to keep their kids in the public school system. There are a lot of different needs to be met here.

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Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.

The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.

The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).

Old Creek? Call the school as it just doesn't seem right if you start at 8:30 you should end at 3:15 not 3:25. Every elementary is suppose to have 6:45 hours of "instructional" time this year. maybe a printed mistake?? I hope.