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Also sports! This is a big one, as high school sports are the lifeblood of many a small town. Ending school early lets kids cram in their 2+ hours of bashing ea
by rahidz 6y ago
Also sports! This is a big one, as high school sports are the lifeblood of many a small town. Ending school early lets kids cram in their 2+ hours of bashing each other's heads in for the amusement and profit of locals before they do 2+ hours of homework.
- bigbubba 6y agoWhen I was on the swim team, we often had practice in the morning before class. If school started later, morning practice would be even easier (as it was, we were waking up at something like 5am for that.) And competitions can easily be on Saturdays, they needn't be after school on a weekday.
- ByteJockey 6y agoBased on the wording of the post, I'm ~95% sure they meant exclusively football, baseball, and basketball.
- bigbubba 6y agoThose can be done the same way.
- ByteJockey 6y agoThey can, but in my experience (especially at small rural schools), the sports I was talking about get the "good" practice times (after school). Any other sport gets... whatever doesn't conflict with those.
- bigbubba 6y agoI mean.. swimming didn't conflict with any other sport but diving, and swimming got precedence. We practiced in the morning because it was a good time for it.
- ByteJockey 6y agoI meant conflict with staff time. At small schools, you're probably going to only have 1-3 members of staff qualified to train students (qualified is a very loose term here). I suppose I could be mistaken about staffing conflicts. My small school didn't have a pool, so there really wasn't anything resembling any sort of water based sports (unless you just wanted to swim in a lake).