My kids are heavily involved in dance and Scouts, and those activities would have to move later to accommodate this or it would just all run together leaving no time for homework. While I want to say "Just move it all later!" the logistics of that get very tricky.

My oldest is in HS, and they start at 7:20 AM (on the bus at 6:40-6:45 AM). There's a proposal in my town to change the start times and push them back 30 minutes (potentially, there's a couple of other options). I will say my kids are losing their minds about that proposal, because they are worried they'll get home late and have no time to do anything. Especially my youngest, who wouldn't get home until 4 PM since his school would start at almost 9 AM.

I think them being up stupidly early and starting that early is inappropriate, but there hasn't been an easy path so far for getting this settled.

EDIT: Just saw the proposal they went with is delaying the start of our high school by 35 minutes to 7:55 and the middle school will start 10 minutes later, and acquire 4 more buses to allow it to be just two tier instead of three tier.

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