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Snark doesn't solve problems. When I was in middle school, it was a 45 minute bus ride. The same bus had to drop us off at 7:30 am so they could get back in tim

Snark doesn't solve problems. When I was in middle school, it was a 45 minute bus ride. The same bus had to drop us off at 7:30 am so they could get back in time to pick up the elementary kids and get them to school on time. So the bus picked us up at 6:45 am which means we are waking up around 6:15 at the latest. That isn't sleeping in. The GP is right, the parents still need to be there for the 6th grader to get on the bus and ALSO make it to work on time at 8:00. Not everyone lives 5 minutes from work. In some rural areas parents have an hour drive even after their kids get on the bus or get dropped at daycare.

Gigachad 4y ago
That’s because the school is still scheduled around driving parents. If children majority took the bus, they could start school at 10:00 and leave it up to the remaining car users to make that work. And some edge case about rural towns doesn’t mean much when even urban schools have this issue.
- snarf21 4y ago
  I can only speak to where I went to school, but even now, 90% of kids ride the bus. I'm not sure how school can start at 10:00 if the parents have to be there to get an 8 year old safely on the bus but somehow still make it to work by even 9:00.
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    For the minority of people getting dropped off early, provide a before school care program.
  - Filligree 4y ago
    Do parents need to be there to get an 8 year old safely on the bus? Really? I recall taking the bus, on my own, since the second day of first grade. So did everyone else. Nothing terrible happened.
    - heavyset_go 4y ago
      Parents have had CPS get involved if they're not at home to see their kids off to school, or are not home when their kids get home.
  - tzs 4y ago
    It is teens who due to changes they undergo during adolescence that would greatly benefit from much later school starts, and they should also be old enough to be able to get to the bus without parents supervising them. Elementary school is fine with its current schedule because all the students there are pre-adolescent, so the parents could still deal with getting an 8 year old to the bus. Middle school is in the middle so might not have a good answer. It will likely have many students who have started adolescence and would do better with a late start but are not yet independent enough to be able to handle getting ready and getting to the bus without their parents still around. So probably need to keep early starts for middle school.
Akronymus 4y ago
In the country I live in, we have a pretty good public transport service. I still had to get up at like 5:30 in the morning, to get to grade 9+ on time. (8 ish in the morning for the first period) From taking a long time to properly get up (constant sleep deprivation) to taking a bus to get me to the bus that takes me to a third bus that takes me to school, plus some wait times in between... And also a lot of heavy books... Children/teens don't have it easy.

Gigachad 4y ago

That’s because the school is still scheduled around driving parents. If children majority took the bus, they could start school at 10:00 and leave it up to the remaining car users to make that work. And some edge case about rural towns doesn’t mean much when even urban schools have this issue.

snarf21 4y ago
I can only speak to where I went to school, but even now, 90% of kids ride the bus. I'm not sure how school can start at 10:00 if the parents have to be there to get an 8 year old safely on the bus but somehow still make it to work by even 9:00.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  For the minority of people getting dropped off early, provide a before school care program.
- Filligree 4y ago
  Do parents need to be there to get an 8 year old safely on the bus? Really? I recall taking the bus, on my own, since the second day of first grade. So did everyone else. Nothing terrible happened.
  - heavyset_go 4y ago
    Parents have had CPS get involved if they're not at home to see their kids off to school, or are not home when their kids get home.
- tzs 4y ago
  It is teens who due to changes they undergo during adolescence that would greatly benefit from much later school starts, and they should also be old enough to be able to get to the bus without parents supervising them. Elementary school is fine with its current schedule because all the students there are pre-adolescent, so the parents could still deal with getting an 8 year old to the bus. Middle school is in the middle so might not have a good answer. It will likely have many students who have started adolescence and would do better with a late start but are not yet independent enough to be able to handle getting ready and getting to the bus without their parents still around. So probably need to keep early starts for middle school.

Akronymus 4y ago

In the country I live in, we have a pretty good public transport service. I still had to get up at like 5:30 in the morning, to get to grade 9+ on time. (8 ish in the morning for the first period) From taking a long time to properly get up (constant sleep deprivation) to taking a bus to get me to the bus that takes me to a third bus that takes me to school, plus some wait times in between... And also a lot of heavy books... Children/teens don't have it easy.