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My high school started at 730 am. They always gave bus scheduling as the reason they couldn't have a later start. Basically, the district only had so many buses
by jschwartzi 11y ago
My high school started at 730 am. They always gave bus scheduling as the reason they couldn't have a later start. Basically, the district only had so many buses to allocate for pick-ups, and would stagger start times to make sure the bus count was minimized.
- reustle 11y agoI mean, it is a valid reason. My small town (4k~ people) did the same, high school started at 7:45am and each bus had both a high school / middle school route, and immediately after an elementary school route. Not only would you need twice as many busses, you'd need twice as many drivers. The cost difference is massive. That said, that doesn't mean they can't bump the start time of all the schools up an hour or two.
- saulrh 11y agoThere's an even easier solution to that: IIRC elementary school kids are way more resistant to sleep deprivation than teenagers, so you can just flip the schedules around and start elementary school kids before teenagers. Downside is probably then that the more-demanding elementary school kids get home earlier, but I think they're already getting home well before the working parent does.
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- dripton 11y agoOur school system does this. I haven't heard any complaints about it. (And we have a lot of entitled parents who complain about everything else.) I'm surprised that more schools aren't switching.
- jacalata 11y agoI've heard that the reason this isn't the default is that parents get far more upset about making an elementary school kid get up and wait for a bus in the dark than a teenager.
- Pingviini 11y agoMakes sense too, America is way too dangerous to have kids wait for buses in the dark. No doubt they would be kidnapped almost immediately.
- monocasa 11y agoCan't tell if sarcastic or not.
- saulrh 11y agoPoe's Law strikes again.
- jacalata 11y agoI understand the arguments are made about the danger of standing next to a road invisibly (especially in shitty places with no sidewalks) but I'm sure some people are worried about kidnapping!
- ams6110 11y agoHeard that argument here when the idea was discussed. The funny thing is that these days (at least for Elementary school) there's always a parent or two who walks their kid to the bus stop and waits with them until the bus comes.
- ACow_Adonis 11y ago"...but then, if that was true, couldn't we be scheduling half of the starts later in the day in order to stagger out the demand for buses even more optimally?" As you can probably tell, I was not a popular child with teachers/authority in my high school days :P