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...sports folks, so they can have longer afternoon practices with sunlight in the Winter... What is this, the ski team? No popular USA scholastic winter sport
by jessaustin 7y ago
...sports folks, so they can have longer afternoon practices with sunlight in the Winter...
What is this, the ski team? No popular USA scholastic winter sport takes place outside. (It's cold outside in winter!) Indoors we have artificial lights. In my experience, high school basketball teams regularly practice in the morning before school anyway; they would not complain about that starting at 7:30 rather than 6:00 AM.
- karatestomp 7y agoI guess I just assumed the reason was for sunlight, which is why they can't just have morning practices (also dark, unless they school starts really late). Regardless, reason I've been given (by people who'd asked, and had this reason given to them by folks working in school admin) is that early-start high school is sacred to the athletic department, for whatever reason.
- jessaustin 7y agoIf that was the case, it was probably more for football after the return to standard time. (Football determines everything.) That may be less important now that the return is a week later: there isn't a great deal of football season left after the first week in November. Also ISTM there has been a great deal of ideological turnover in high school football in recent years. The old dudes have retired; their successors might be more open to reason. Having your entire team less tired, all the time is likely to be a competitive advantage...