4 ms·
> Sports can practice before school Hilarious, given the original thread. School already starts far too early.
by deanCommie 4y ago
> Sports can practice before school
Hilarious, given the original thread.
School already starts far too early.
- sidibe 4y agoNo 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 agoSwimming 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 agoNo schools around here have pools, have to share the YMCA pools with other groups
- layman51 4y agoYou’re kidding right? To me, requiring students to wake up before 7 AM should be considered hazing.
- mhb 4y agoNo one's requiring kids to compete on a high school swim team.
- Dylan16807 4y agoReplacing a generic "required" with "required to join a group/team" actually makes it sound more like hazing to me.
- adrianmonk 4y agoThey'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 agoIf 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,