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Anonymous wrote:I am of the camp that thinks the times should remain the same, or perhaps only change by 1/2 hour. These children will be in college, the military, or in the working world soon enough, where no one is going to make the starting time later to give them more sleep. Or should the colleges change their classes to start later, too? After all, kids are in their teens during their first few years of college...

Have you looked at college class schedules lately? How many of the classes start at 7:30 am?

I took 7am classes every year at college in the 90's. Left school by 11:30am and worked a FT job as a nanny from 12-8pm. Came home and studied/HW until 11pm-12am. Up at 6:15am. If kids had to do that this day and age, they would cry like little babies. From this thread, it seems like their mommies would too. But guess what? I graduated as an RN in 3yrs with zero student loans, was working full time in 2 months and my work has paid for all my other education and now I am a nurse practitioner. Again, no debt, no loans and living a pretty decent life. And I went to high school super early. I can't remember the exact time but it was before 8am and we would get picked up at a bus stop in the dark. I made it thru and so will your kids. They have it easier than any other generation before them but it is the parents that are enabling them and making it worse. Coddling them, giving them iPhones to waste their free time away, not making them work and support themselves. Lazy lazy lazy. Then they go into college, rack up loans, don't work thru college and graduate and struggle to find a job with debt up to their eyeballs. But I am sure changing the whole county's system so they can go to bed one hour later and wake up one hour later will make them bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, self-sufficient kids all of a sudden.

Anonymous wrote:I am of the camp that thinks the times should remain the same, or perhaps only change by 1/2 hour. These children will be in college, the military, or in the working world soon enough, where no one is going to make the starting time later to give them more sleep. Or should the colleges change their classes to start later, too? After all, kids are in their teens during their first few years of college...

Have you looked at college class schedules lately? How many of the classes start at 7:30 am?

Here's my bet. I think Starr wants it. So he's going to recommend it. Community feedback is meaningless.

Anonymous wrote:Mother of 3 here, 2 who are MCPS graduates. Many of my children's classmates who were in the IB program and other activities (sports, etc.) were often up until midnight or 1 a.m. doing their homework. If the time for those sports is extended until later in the afternoon/evening, that will mean those kids will go do bed even later than they do now, minimizing any extra sleep they would have had by moving the start times later.

I am of the camp that thinks the times should remain the same, or perhaps only change by 1/2 hour. These children will be in college, the military, or in the working world soon enough, where no one is going to make the starting time later to give them more sleep. Or should the colleges change their classes to start later, too? After all, kids are in their teens during their first few years of college...

By that logic, we should make toddlers and preschoolers get with the program too. They will be in elementary school soon enough. Why should they nap? They will be in school for 7 hours a day soon enough, with no nap or snack. They should buck up!

/sarcasm

People in college, the military, the working world are at a completely different developmental stage of life than where a 15yo is. Physiology, anatomy, brain development - all completely different. Therefore there is no reason to push requirements down to people in a stage of life that makes it harder for them to meet them.

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Anonymous wrote:People defending these teens and there need for that extra one hour really think it will work?

They get done an house later, sports start an hour later, they get home at night to start homework an hour later. Guess what???? They will go to bed an hour later.

Stop wasting everyone's time. Stop being a helicopter parent. High school starts early. You knew this years ago before your child entered the school.

STOP COMPLAINING!! You are teaching your kids to be whiny just like you. How about teaching them to suck it up just like they have to do sometimes because that is life.

Do you have a teenager, and are you familiar with the research about the effect of sleep on teens' school achievement and mental health?

I have a 12yr old and a 15yr old and I was once a teen that started HS in PA at 7:10am. Guess what? I survived and so are my girls, but then again they don't have bedrooms that look like dorms with computers, tv's, iphones, etc.. YOU, the parent, knew the start times of your schools when you purchased your house in MoCo. So shut the hell up already. If you don't like it, move to another district or send them to private school but stop expecting tax dollars to get wasted on this prolonged research and then even more in trying to do a change. There is already so little money going back into the schools.

Many poor kids need to work after school
Coaches deserve to get home before 7pm
Many HS teachers prefer driving in less traffic leaving early and coming home early.

It isn't all about you. That is the problem with parents these days. They are so self-absorbed and whiny and now your kids are too.

Actually it is about me. It is about you, me, and other MoCo taxpayers. This is OUR system. We have a say in how it is run.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People defending these teens and there need for that extra one hour really think it will work?

They get done an house later, sports start an hour later, they get home at night to start homework an hour later. Guess what???? They will go to bed an hour later.

Stop wasting everyone's time. Stop being a helicopter parent. High school starts early. You knew this years ago before your child entered the school.

STOP COMPLAINING!! You are teaching your kids to be whiny just like you. How about teaching them to suck it up just like they have to do sometimes because that is life.

Do you have a teenager, and are you familiar with the research about the effect of sleep on teens' school achievement and mental health?

I have a 12yr old and a 15yr old and I was once a teen that started HS in PA at 7:10am. Guess what? I survived and so are my girls, but then again they don't have bedrooms that look like dorms with computers, tv's, iphones, etc.. YOU, the parent, knew the start times of your schools when you purchased your house in MoCo. So shut the hell up already. If you don't like it, move to another district or send them to private school but stop expecting tax dollars to get wasted on this prolonged research and then even more in trying to do a change. There is already so little money going back into the schools.

Many poor kids need to work after school
Coaches deserve to get home before 7pm
Many HS teachers prefer driving in less traffic leaving early and coming home early.

It isn't all about you. That is the problem with parents these days. They are so self-absorbed and whiny and now your kids are too.

There is no objective reason, besides busing, why HS should start so early, so why torture kids unnecessarily? I have never in my life gotten up before 6:30am, and I don't see why they have to.

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My friend commutes from Derwood to Arlington each day. Her hours are 7 to 3.

Add I have no idea where you teach, but many of my kids work after school to keep food on the table. And getting out later cuts into their work hours.

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Your friend is an idiot. No sympathy for him or her. Live in Derwood, work in Arlington; you get what you deserve!

My students work after school too. Their hours will be adjusted. There's also more who would benefit from the later start time than would not benefit. Common good.