Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 19:38     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:30 minutes is not long enough to get ready. It really isn't (and I think it's absolutely horrible that FCPS has this schedule).

Again, 30 minutes will not work. I've had instances where I've been w/out luggage, sleeping in a hotel, catching a flight before sunrise. Sleeping in my clothes. Nothing to do but brush my teeth and go. And still can't do it, for some reason, in 30 minutes. Just waking and rolling out of bed takes some amount of time.


Really? You do get that most people can get out the door in less time.

My kids (boy and girl) needed 20 min in the morning. This includes:

Mom: making hot breakfast, getting water bottle and ice ready, getting hot lunch ready, getting ready to take kid to a bus stop with a later pick up time.

Kid: shoes, socks, eat, teeth, pack lunch and water bottle and go (insert grab hoodie or something if needed).

Everything that could be ready the night before, was.

Zero electronics until out the door.


Some parents don’t baby their kids and want them to make breakfast themselves.


Sometimes I really question why you people choose to have children. It's not babying to provide food for your *middle schooler*... it's parenting.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 19:23     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:30 minutes is not long enough to get ready. It really isn't (and I think it's absolutely horrible that FCPS has this schedule).

Again, 30 minutes will not work. I've had instances where I've been w/out luggage, sleeping in a hotel, catching a flight before sunrise. Sleeping in my clothes. Nothing to do but brush my teeth and go. And still can't do it, for some reason, in 30 minutes. Just waking and rolling out of bed takes some amount of time.


Really? You do get that most people can get out the door in less time.

My kids (boy and girl) needed 20 min in the morning. This includes:

Mom: making hot breakfast, getting water bottle and ice ready, getting hot lunch ready, getting ready to take kid to a bus stop with a later pick up time.

Kid: shoes, socks, eat, teeth, pack lunch and water bottle and go (insert grab hoodie or something if needed).

Everything that could be ready the night before, was.

Zero electronics until out the door.


Do you work, that you can manage doing all of that prep for your kids and get yourself out the door to go on time? Even so, it takes me 20 min sometimes to even get out of bed after the alarm so I set it earlier. I don’t think most people can wake up and be out the door in 20 minutes. I need time for my eyes to open and sorry for TMI, but to get things moving to use the bathroom. So do lots of kids because they are human too.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 17:48     Subject: Re:Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:FCPS is weird. ES should go first, then MS, then HS. I mean my ES kid is up at the crack of dawn and we need to wait three hours until school starts.


You mean like they do it in Loudoun County? Love it.


You mean the Loudoun County that’s less than half the size of FCPS with over 100K fewer students? That same district?
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 17:38     Subject: Re:Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:FCPS is weird. ES should go first, then MS, then HS. I mean my ES kid is up at the crack of dawn and we need to wait three hours until school starts.


You mean like they do it in Loudoun County? Love it.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 17:37     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:30 minutes is not long enough to get ready. It really isn't (and I think it's absolutely horrible that FCPS has this schedule).

Again, 30 minutes will not work. I've had instances where I've been w/out luggage, sleeping in a hotel, catching a flight before sunrise. Sleeping in my clothes. Nothing to do but brush my teeth and go. And still can't do it, for some reason, in 30 minutes. Just waking and rolling out of bed takes some amount of time.


Really? You do get that most people can get out the door in less time.

My kids (boy and girl) needed 20 min in the morning. This includes:

Mom: making hot breakfast, getting water bottle and ice ready, getting hot lunch ready, getting ready to take kid to a bus stop with a later pick up time.

Kid: shoes, socks, eat, teeth, pack lunch and water bottle and go (insert grab hoodie or something if needed).

Everything that could be ready the night before, was.

Zero electronics until out the door.


Some parents don’t baby their kids and want them to make breakfast themselves.


np I would take issue with your idea of "babying" as if it is a negative thing.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 17:36     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:DC gets up at 6:20 to catch 6:50 bus. She has gradually looked worse and worse every morning this week. Dark circles under eyes, red eyes, no energy. She’s doing lights out at 9pm, and I don’t know how we could do it much earlier at her age. 8 pm is a tough sell for an almost teenager. She clearly needs more than the 9ish hours, but I don’t know when she’d get that extra hour. Do they adjust or are they just tired a lot for two years? She starts her fall sport next week and it’s going to be rough.


Can someone drive her to school? If not, can she take a nap when she gets home?
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 17:30     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Wait until The endless gray grind of February
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 17:17     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
The only way to avoid this is to stop offering bus service to neighborhoods. Would you be willing to have a bus depot system where you take your kid to a central spot and the bus leaves from there like TJ? Or we could stop offering bus service altogether.

You armchair experts have no idea how complicit bus routes are for a county as large as Fairfax. MS is only two years. It’s the price that has to be paid.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 17:06     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:30 minutes is not long enough to get ready. It really isn't (and I think it's absolutely horrible that FCPS has this schedule).

Again, 30 minutes will not work. I've had instances where I've been w/out luggage, sleeping in a hotel, catching a flight before sunrise. Sleeping in my clothes. Nothing to do but brush my teeth and go. And still can't do it, for some reason, in 30 minutes. Just waking and rolling out of bed takes some amount of time.


Really? You do get that most people can get out the door in less time.

My kids (boy and girl) needed 20 min in the morning. This includes:

Mom: making hot breakfast, getting water bottle and ice ready, getting hot lunch ready, getting ready to take kid to a bus stop with a later pick up time.

Kid: shoes, socks, eat, teeth, pack lunch and water bottle and go (insert grab hoodie or something if needed).

Everything that could be ready the night before, was.

Zero electronics until out the door.


Some parents don’t baby their kids and want them to make breakfast themselves.


Great. Have them make something easy. But you don’t have them make elaborate AND get out the door in 20
Min. Sleep is the most impt.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 16:47     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:30 minutes is not long enough to get ready. It really isn't (and I think it's absolutely horrible that FCPS has this schedule).

Again, 30 minutes will not work. I've had instances where I've been w/out luggage, sleeping in a hotel, catching a flight before sunrise. Sleeping in my clothes. Nothing to do but brush my teeth and go. And still can't do it, for some reason, in 30 minutes. Just waking and rolling out of bed takes some amount of time.


Really? You do get that most people can get out the door in less time.

My kids (boy and girl) needed 20 min in the morning. This includes:

Mom: making hot breakfast, getting water bottle and ice ready, getting hot lunch ready, getting ready to take kid to a bus stop with a later pick up time.

Kid: shoes, socks, eat, teeth, pack lunch and water bottle and go (insert grab hoodie or something if needed).

Everything that could be ready the night before, was.

Zero electronics until out the door.


Some parents don’t baby their kids and want them to make breakfast themselves.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 16:42     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:30 minutes is not long enough to get ready. It really isn't (and I think it's absolutely horrible that FCPS has this schedule).

Again, 30 minutes will not work. I've had instances where I've been w/out luggage, sleeping in a hotel, catching a flight before sunrise. Sleeping in my clothes. Nothing to do but brush my teeth and go. And still can't do it, for some reason, in 30 minutes. Just waking and rolling out of bed takes some amount of time.


Really? You do get that most people can get out the door in less time.

My kids (boy and girl) needed 20 min in the morning. This includes:

Mom: making hot breakfast, getting water bottle and ice ready, getting hot lunch ready, getting ready to take kid to a bus stop with a later pick up time.

Kid: shoes, socks, eat, teeth, pack lunch and water bottle and go (insert grab hoodie or something if needed).

Everything that could be ready the night before, was.

Zero electronics until out the door.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 11:39     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just get a doctor’s note saying your child can’t start school before 9 AM. Then skip the first few periods everyday, and do an online class to make up the missed periods.


Oh great! Encourage lying both in collusion with the doctor and with your kid’s knowledge, and then do a class online which we all know isn’t the best way to learn and has a non existent social aspect. This is a great idea. Really, bravo, you.



Are you aware that sleep deprivation is literally used as a form of torture? These kids are miserable their health is suffering


You’re right! This IS a form of torture. Omg thank you for opening my eyes. It’s akin to bamboo under fingernails….these poor kids.

And this, folks, is why our teens grow up either coddled, believing rules don’t apply to them, or both. Good job, mama.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 11:35     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just get a doctor’s note saying your child can’t start school before 9 AM. Then skip the first few periods everyday, and do an online class to make up the missed periods.


Oh great! Encourage lying both in collusion with the doctor and with your kid’s knowledge, and then do a class online which we all know isn’t the best way to learn and has a non existent social aspect. This is a great idea. Really, bravo, you.



Are you aware that sleep deprivation is literally used as a form of torture? These kids are miserable their health is suffering
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 11:17     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Anonymous wrote:Just get a doctor’s note saying your child can’t start school before 9 AM. Then skip the first few periods everyday, and do an online class to make up the missed periods.


Oh great! Encourage lying both in collusion with the doctor and with your kid’s knowledge, and then do a class online which we all know isn’t the best way to learn and has a non existent social aspect. This is a great idea. Really, bravo, you.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2022 11:11     Subject: Early middle school bell crushing DC
Just get a doctor’s note saying your child can’t start school before 9 AM. Then skip the first few periods everyday, and do an online class to make up the missed periods.