I’ve never understood the outrage.
If you kids need 8 hours of sleep and have to be up at 6am, then have them down before 10pm. How hard can it be?
Sure, if you let them stay up past midnight playing video games, they are going to be tired the next morning. So don’t. It’s called parenting.
Parents protest early start times for elementary schools at a Boston School Committee meeting. Photo: WBZ-TV
To give teens more time to sleep, Boston Public Schools will start high schools later and elementary and K-8 schools earlier. Most high schools will start after 8 a.m. — one not till 9:30 — but more than three dozen elementary and K-8 schools will start at 7:15 or 7:30.
Elementary-school parents arefuriousabout the early start times, reports Max Larkin for WBUR. Some schools will see a two-hour shift in the school day.
“Many parents repeated complaintsthat they’ll have to rouse small children by 5:30 or 6 in the morning, and cover many more hours of after-school care,” he writes. Some schools will end their day at 1:15 p.m.
In a BPS survey last year, most parents preferred a starting school between 7:45 and 8:45 a.m. However, that would raise the cost of busing significantly. The district’s plan is designed to reduce transportation costs.
Via Joanne Jacobs