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I was at a meeting last night where we were discussing changing the start time for high school. Currently, the high school starts at 7:30am and the elementary school starts at 9:00am. We are talking about switching those times, since studies show that teens are more productive with a later wake time.
So, I'm wondering - what time does school start where you are, and would you agree that the high school should start later?
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Our middle/high school day is around 7:30 - 2:07. We are part of a 4 district system, so each district has their own elementary schools.........ours is 8:30-3. For our middle/high school, they rotate periods everyday, so the first period is not the same subject everyday and therefore, the sleepiness is spread out amongst all the classes! Having DD being a sophomore, plus an athlete, I'm not sure I'd like a later start time. As it is now, most of our sports start at 3:45, so they are over mostly by 5:30, maybe an extra hour for a bus ride. Some swim meets don't start until 8:30, making for a late night when you have to get up at 6. However, if they started later, everything would be pushed back an hour (maybe not the swimming) and trying to start games at maybe 4:45 especially in the fall is not going to happen around here due to darkness. Then they'd be missing school. I also think that it would just cause the kids to stay up later, instead of 10 or 11 doing homework (she has plenty of friends who do that) they too would be up and hour later, getting the same amount of sleep (instead of getting up at 6 would get up at 7). I can also see the elementary parents not happy, as instead of their "babies" getting up at 7 or later, they'd now how to get up at 6. The kids have had plenty of friends in elementary school whose parents would drive them to school for 8:20 instead of putting them on a bus at 7:30 or 7:40 so they could get more sleep. Can't see them making that an hour earlier on the little ones.
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I teach in the same district where my kids go to school. The middle school (where I teach) day goes from 7:45-2:40, high school day is 7:50-2:45, and the elementary school day is 8:40-3:30.
My building (9-12) begins at 7:38. My husband's building (a 7-12 building) currently begins at 7:28....though it might be pushed back slightly to 7:40 because of buss issues next year.
There are a few issues with a later start time - first is high school sports. If school starts later, will it get out later? And if so, will athletes have to be excused earlier in order to get to contests on time?
The other issue is after school jobs - when my building had a late start schedule, many of our students found themselves "locked out" of hours at their part time jobs because students in neighboring schools could take earlier shifts.
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My building (9-12) begins at 7:38. My husband's building (a 7-12 building) currently begins at 7:28....though it might be pushed back slightly to 7:40 because of buss issues next year.
There are a few issues with a later start time - first is high school sports. If school starts later, will it get out later? And if so, will athletes have to be excused earlier in order to get to contests on time?
The other issue is after school jobs - when my building had a late start schedule, many of our students found themselves "locked out" of hours at their part time jobs because students in neighboring schools could take earlier shifts.
The sports issue came up, but when it did parents of hockey players were all for the later start times because the kids can't get on the ice before 8:30pm and are often home as late as midnight. Trying to get them out of bed at 5am is agony.
Younger kids seem to have an easier time getting up early. My DS was once a 5:30am early riser, and now at 16 you're lucky if you see him before 11! Not that I'm complaining. I'm not an early riser, either.
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My DS is in high school and he starts at 7:30 and is out at 2:00.
I've lost track of when middle and elementary start...not my monkeys, not my circus anymore.
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I really don't have an opinion about wether or not HS should start later. My DD is very good about getting up and out to door on time, so we don't have an issue.
The schools around here all start at random crazy times due to bus schedules and the large amount of charter schools and magnet programs.
Personally, I think the earlier hs start time was better. My middle school started at 9:30 and my hs started at 7:20. I loved getting out of hs at 1:50. I could get my homework done and still have time to do what I wanted to do after (relax, go swimming, go horseback riding, see friends, whatever). I think with kids being older and having more general freedom in hs, they appreciate that time.
I'm also wondering why the boy in Joanne's story had to get up at 5am when school started at 7:30? I started at 7:20 and got up at 6:20. Wasn't ever tardy.
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I'm also wondering why the boy in Joanne's story had to get up at 5am when school started at 7:30? I started at 7:20 and got up at 6:20. Wasn't ever tardy.
The buses begin pickups at 6am. I drive my son to school, but if I made him take the bus, he'd need to be at the bus stop at 6:05am and he would ride around on the bus for over an hour picking up other students. It's nuts. I know that they have a lot of area to cover, but if you're at the beginning of the route, it's a LONG bus ride. They won't add more buses either.
DD's school is in session from 8:00 to 3:35. The campus she attends has grades 4-12 in 2 buildings. Start times are the same for each building.
The other campus that houses 3year old to grade 3 attends from 8:15 to 3:45, allowing travel between the 2 for families with kids at both - they're about 3 miles apart.
There are buses, but only 3 pick up locations throughout the metro-Indianapolis area and none on our side of the city, so almost all kids are driven.
We have 4 schools in the district.
High School starts at 7:45
Middle School starts at 7:55
Intermediate school starts at 8:05
Primary school starts at 8:15
Our elementary schools have staggered start times due to buses. They range from 8:10-9:05 and dismiss between 2:25 and 3:30. Middle schools are either 8 or 8:20 and get out at 2:45. and all the high schools start at 8:17 (not a typo really 8:17) and high school dismisses at 3:18 (seriously where do they get these numbers) and the high schools also have zero hour that start at 7:25 for certain classes.
as far as jobs it really isn't an issue because most places teens work are used to it. and since when is it the school districts responsibility to be worried about the kids jobs (sorry I'll get off my soap box) and the kids that actually have games out of town they always leave class early and if it is a local game they dismiss at the regular time.
When our kids were in high school, the school day started at 8:50am and the elementary schools started around 8am. The high schoolers need the extra sleep. But I will say that the parents also have to help in the process. Our kids were not allowed to have cell phones or computers in their rooms at night. Also, they had to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Our son use to complain that he would be the only freshman in college with a set bed time.
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Having DD being a sophomore, plus an athlete, I'm not sure I'd like a later start time. As it is now, most of our sports start at 3:45, so they are over mostly by 5:30, maybe an extra hour for a bus ride. Some swim meets don't start until 8:30, making for a late night when you have to get up at 6. However, if they started later, everything would be pushed back an hour (maybe not the swimming) and trying to start games at maybe 4:45 especially in the fall is not going to happen around here due to darkness. Then they'd be missing school. I also think that it would just cause the kids to stay up later, instead of 10 or 11 doing homework (she has plenty of friends who do that) they too would be up and hour later, getting the same amount of sleep (instead of getting up at 6 would get up at 7). I can also see the elementary parents not happy, as instead of their "babies" getting up at 7 or later, they'd now how to get up at 6. The kids have had plenty of friends in elementary school whose parents would drive them to school for 8:20 instead of putting them on a bus at 7:30 or 7:40 so they could get more sleep. Can't see them making that an hour earlier on the little ones.
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