[ExI] Fwd: year round school

[spike at rainier66.com]

Woohoo!  Good for you Henry, well done.

 

The local board switched to 0830 start times at the HS (it was 0745 before.)  The move has been popular with the HS crowd and their parents.  This year of course they can get outta bed at 0827 and make it to class on time.  In some ways this was ideal that the switch should happen this year because we don’t have after school sports or band practice.  One of the sticking points was that about this time of year, the students doing after-school activities would be riding bicycles home in the dark.  Eh, perhaps so, but that has an easy enough solution: have the teams and band cut it off at 530 pm.  

 

I would argue further that later in December and January, the 0745 students were riding bicycles to school in the morning twilight, which is more dangerous than riding home at dusk (because traffic is more frantic that time of day (trying to get to the office on time.))

 

spike

 

 

 

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Subject: Re: [ExI] Fwd: year round school

 

I have an unexpected and positive update on 

my local situation! 

 

Sports have all been cancelled here so far this year, so maybe this was an opportune time to rock the boat. Or all our letters and data finally penetrated some skulls. 

 

Either way, I’ll take the victory, which is really one for our kids. 

 

12/11/20 

(Northampton, MA) — It’s been years in discussion…but now it’s official. Students in Northampton will start school later in the morning. The city’s school committee voted last night to move the high school start time next September to 9 a.m. Advocates have long been calling for a later start time so teenagers can get more sleep. Northampton’s elementary students will start at 8am next Fall…Middle Schoolers will start classes at 8:30.





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