This was also my experience in Texas (DFW). Elementary school started and ended about 90 minutes before HS. This allowed the bus drivers to work from 2pm~ until

This was also my experience in Texas (DFW). Elementary school started and ended about 90 minutes before HS. This allowed the bus drivers to work from 2pm~ until 5pm. I would have liked it to start a bit later, or at least ramp up with a homeroom for 30-45 minutes. When I started HS in 2008, we didn't have homeroom classes anymore. Some days I would start bright eyed and bushy tailed doing Calculus at 9am. Bleh. I took some dual credit classes in my later years. I remember a few of them happened _before_ school started. Those sucked too, but they didn't cost me anything and I graduated with an associates degree so I can't complain too much.