Posted on 09/01/2018 7:41:23 PM PDT by Libloather
Lawmakers in California passed a bill Friday mandating that school start times for middle- and high-school students begin at 8:30 a.m., defying the wishes of school boards in the state as well as a local teachers' union.
The Sacramento Bee reported late Friday that lawmakers had passed a bill mandating that the start of classes be delayed until 8:30 a.m., with the exception of before school or "zero period" classes, which may still begin before that time.
The bill came despite objections from both the California Teachers Association and the California School Boards Association, according to the news outlet. It passed late Friday 41-30, after a previous attempt to pass it failed last week.
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When I was in primary school it started at 0900 and ended at 1500. That seemed to be the norm everywhere I knew about.
... whut?
The pricks in California’s capital are cramming as if they think their finals are coming. There’s been all sorts of worthless nonsense recently.
Now Johnny can play Fortnite until 3 a.m. instead of 2.a.m.
Kids will just stay up later the night before. Do kids really want more sleep. /s
The isn't the fragile teen’s biological clock, but the parents who key them stay up past midnight and then, shockingly, they are tired the next day. Who would have thought?!
I’d be surprised if the parents don’t raise a real stink. It’s going to mess with work schedules on a massive scale. Then there’s the after-school activities that will need to be rescheduled to later times. They could try to have school ending at the same time, which may please the Teachers Unions; this would result in even less education but the educating students has never been what the Teachers Unions are really about. This would be another Red Herring for the FMLA crowd; “My child/children need to be dropped off later and it’s by law, so you have to allow me to disrupt everything here at work.” Very possible to see that being tried, especially in California.
Where was that? Because in Tennessee it has been 7:30 or 8:00 until 3:00 for as long as I can remember.
They could go back to neighborhood schools so kids can walk to school instead of getting up two hours early to drive to the other side of the city.
Mine was 730. I just remember my dad kicking my ass if Im not at the breakfast table at 630. This new generation is a bunch of weak ass p*ssies..
Fungoking, when I am about town it’s really easy to spot the children who have been up late just by their behavior. I myself come from the Northeast (no brag, just unfortunate fact), and love late night errands because of the quietness and no crowds. That said, it’s very troubling to see how many parents drag their children out at 10pm, 11pm, and midnight. These are not what I would call properly trained parents; they’re most likely the offspring of parents who wanted to be ‘friends,’ and so they themselves have no clue as to proper parenting. The youngsters pay a price for this and believe me, the youngsters look exhausted in the stores..no telling who tired they are in the morning!
P.S. I’m in Texas, now. Still, not all parents in Texas are properly trained in parenting. Nor do all of them actually function on an intelligent basis. Sigh.
Never happen, makes waaay too much sense, sorry.
Earlier even. Here in Nashville, we had to be in school at 6:50am to be seated in class as the bell rang at 7. We were released at 2pm.
Will there soon be self-driving Uber buses with sofas in the back so they can rest on the way to school? How about handing out breakfast burritos and orange juice as the enter the school?
They keep looking for the 'magic bullet' that will transform every student into a top-tier graduate.
“When I was in primary school it started at 0900 and ended at 1500. That seemed to be the norm everywhere I knew about.”
And your folks got you in bed at a reasonable hour so you could get up in the morning.
This is in response to bad parenting.
When I was a kid I had to get up before dawn, plow the field, milk the cows (40 of them), churn the butter, dig a new well, feed the chickens, put out the fire in the barn, and slaughter the pigs all before school. Then I’d come home, raise more pigs, chop 5 cords of wood, restart the fire in the barn, and harvest the fields before bed.
California law makers sleep all day!!
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