An online petition to start county public high schools at 8:15 a.m. already had collected more than 10,000 signatures by Wednesday morning, Dec. 12.
Montgomery County public school parents and students are speaking up about school start times, and the county's school superintendent is responding. An online petition, "Changing Montgomery County, MD's High School Start Times to 8:15 AM or Later," has asked the county school board to "officially recognize the large and compelling body of research regarding teen sleep and academic achievement," and "to start high schools in Montgomery County, MD, after 8:15 [a.m.]." On Tuesday, Superintendent of Schools Joshua P. Starr announced that a work group has been established to study the issue. That will come as good news to the petition's signers, who already numbered more than 10,000 by 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12. "Sleep deprivation, with such …
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Will Montgomery County follow its neighbor's efforts to send teens to school later in the morning?
Are today’s students up and out of the house too early? The question has garnered a lot of attention on Patch sites around Montgomery County. Over 80 percent of our polltakers said they’d prefer school hours to start later, and one of our bloggers has been watching a national movement advocating later start times. Now it seems that our neighbors in Fairfax County, Va., are beginning a third official attempt to push back school start times for students in high school. “After 14 years of discussion and two formal attempts to address the issue on its own, the Fairfax County school board will look to a consultant to help it move forward on a resolution to start the system's high school schools after 8 a.m.,” Annandale Patch reports. One of …
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Joe Thomas
9:03 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012
Parents lock up the Iphones at 7pm and there will be plenty of time for study and homework. more ›