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Huh? Sports can practice before school. And high school athletes don't need parental supervision. School hours are set by transportation needs, as you already

• deanCommie 4y ago
  > Sports can practice before school Hilarious, given the original thread. School already starts far too early.
  • sidibe 4y ago
    No such thing as too early. Our public HS swim team used to do the water part at 6am then cross training (running or weight room) after school. Probably because of pool availability
    • SoftTalker 4y ago
      Swimming seems to have a tradition of pre-dawn practice times. I never understood that. Nobody uses the high school pool after school (unless there's a meet).
      • sidibe 4y ago
        No schools around here have pools, have to share the YMCA pools with other groups
    • layman51 4y ago
      You’re kidding right? To me, requiring students to wake up before 7 AM should be considered hazing.
      • mhb 4y ago
        No one's requiring kids to compete on a high school swim team.
        • Dylan16807 4y ago
          Replacing a generic "required" with "required to join a group/team" actually makes it sound more like hazing to me.
  • adrianmonk 4y ago
    They're saying that, rather than having school from 8am to 3pm and sports to 3pm to 5pm, you could have sports from 8am to 10am and school from 10am to 5pm, for example. In other words, have the students who do optional activities come in early rather than stay late. Then only some students come in early instead of all of them.
    • dragonwriter 4y ago
      If there is evidence that it is too early for kids that age, then its too early, and school-sponsored extra-curriculars shouldn’t be at that time. Have some of the non-teaching staff time that is usually blocked into full non-teaching days split into that time, and add more but shorter teaching days,
• greedo 4y ago
  School hours are set by tradition. My city provides no bus service to any students (excepting special needs kids). Crazy I know. Kids can ride the city metro buses for free, but those aren't the same as school buses.
  • prawn 4y ago
    What's the rationale for some schools having a bus service and others not? In Australia, I'm not aware of any metropolitan state school having a bus service, so it sounds bizarre that buses would dictate starting times. Some private schools might have small buses. Otherwise, public and private students would use public transport, ride, walk or get dropped off by parents.
    • mcv 4y ago
      In Netherland it's also only the special needs schools that pick up students in buses (because they're very specialised and kids can come from a very large area and might not be sufficiently able to travel on their own). But most kids just use their bike. But I gather bikes are not a thing in many other countries.
• smileysteve 4y ago
  In the Friday nights lights states, we lift every other morning at 6am, practice ends at 6pm