Eco Geek

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:52:24 -0800

Ha, I just realized that all becomes a moot point if they cut extracurricular to save money.

Eco Geek

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:50:29 -0800

I can only assume that some of the resistance in starting the high school kids later is extracurricular activities. Hard on the sports teams/jazz bands/ theater groups if the day gets extended, because they may have to load on a bus and get going somewhere.

TroyJMorris

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:06:32 -0800

There have been countless studies and countless buckets of common sense that say older grades should start later, younger grades earlier. Look, older kids can find their own damn way to school-- most already do. Little kids can't. They need their usually working parents to take them . So those little kids starting at after 9 am is a burden. They start early, they get let out early and so you have daycare to factor in, but what working parent gets off before 6 pm now-a-days anyway? Starting later, those older kids actually have brain matter to use throughout the day. It's been cited in many-a Discovery and Learning Channel programs that teenagers biological clocks are 8 kinds of fucked up and they tend to be up later and sleep later-- naturally. I personally think they temporarily turn into some sort of hideous zombie/were/vampire hybrid. But I'm still crunching the data.

Seattlest: Seattle Schools Get Grant, Consider Start-Time Change

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