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Gavin Newsom signs law barring California schools from opening before 8 a.m.
https://www.upi.com ^ | OCT. 14, 2019 | Darryl Coote

Posted on 10/14/2019 1:44:46 AM PDT by Enterprise

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation on Sunday, prohibiting middle schools from starting class before 8 a.m. and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m.

"The science shows that teenage students who start their day later increase their academic performance, attendance and overall health," Newsom said in a statement. "Importantly, the law allows three years for schools and school districts to plan and implement these changes."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
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To: Jemian

He should have mandated that the evening TV schedule start an hour earlier, like the Central Time schedule found in the Midwest. If prime time TV ends an hour earlier, the little rug rats will go to bed earlier, which is the actual problem, not early school times.

That would also be better for the “workers” and “stakeholders”.


41 posted on 10/14/2019 5:44:00 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Cvengr

This belongs in local control. Waking hours are often different among rural, urban and suburban districts and the districts should be free to tailor their hours to fit their culture and traditions.


42 posted on 10/14/2019 5:51:46 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Jemian
"Actually, this is a good idea. I don’t like everything being mandated by the government. Nevertheless, middle schoolers don’t learn well in the early morning and need their sleep. Starting later is a good plan."

Maybe he should pass a law that makes them go the bed earlier.

43 posted on 10/14/2019 5:58:30 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Enterprise

The parents will have to tell their employer they will be coming to work late.


44 posted on 10/14/2019 6:00:18 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: Cvengr

Oh Lord. I started school at 8:15 and ended at 2:30. All activities started at 2:30 and done easily by dark.


45 posted on 10/14/2019 6:06:43 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Enterprise

The high schoolers in my neighborhood get their bus at 6:15AM. They are in homeroom by 7:15.


46 posted on 10/14/2019 6:10:00 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: VanShuyten

Kids don’t watch much tv these days. Maybe all internet connections and gaming sites should be shut off by 8:00pm every night. Forced lockouts. lol


47 posted on 10/14/2019 6:13:21 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Enterprise

And this cannot be decided by local school boards and must be the subject of statewide regulation WHY, exactly?


48 posted on 10/14/2019 6:19:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: petitfour
"Were not we’re. Auto correct is such a pain."

We have "auto correct"..???

49 posted on 10/14/2019 6:20:37 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Enterprise

Absolute horse shit!

Teenagers who started school before 8 AM, after doing their chores, put men on the moon, conquered Nazism, defeated Communism, and built the American Infrastructure in the 1930s.

Restrict their access to the internet and smart phones after, say, 9 PM, and see what happens, after the massive hissy fits!


50 posted on 10/14/2019 6:47:04 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: Jemian

You do know that there are hours for sleep before midnight, if they aren’t texting and surfing the internet for porn, don’t you?


51 posted on 10/14/2019 6:48:13 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: minnesota_bound

Surely high schoolers don’t need mommy to see them off to school? Or maybe they do since we’ve succeeded in infantilizing our children well beyond their chronological age.


52 posted on 10/14/2019 7:20:17 AM PDT by Scarpetta (The election of Donald Trump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: Mouton

This means the kids will be dismissed around 4 pm. The lazy teachers are going to HATE this!


53 posted on 10/14/2019 7:21:57 AM PDT by Scarpetta (The election of Donald Trump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: Enterprise
Don't they think anything through out there in LaLa Land? When I was substituting, there were different time schemes at various schools. Some had a 9:30 to 4:00 schedule. I didn't care for it. In the winter, it is too close to sunset and it dismisses the students during commuter traffic, which further adds to how late they get home. The students didn't get more sleep.....a lot stayed up with their technology later. For us early risers, it defines an education nightmare! I get up before 6AM or earlier. I lost 3 hrs of my free time before the day even started. What about students who have to earn some income after school? Will they be more likely to drop out? And, oh, yeah, what about the little darlin's who were smoking funny looking cigarettes and hooking up with their boyfriends/girlfriends in all that free time after their folks left for work and the school day began?

I'm not clever enough to have made this up. Saw it all!

54 posted on 10/14/2019 7:32:40 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: unread

My device does. It gets carried away with words like were and we’re. I should read my posts before I post. Lol


55 posted on 10/14/2019 7:36:26 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: grania

Truly, they do NOT think things through in the way you and I would. The way they think things through is only when they want to push an agenda counter to what is helpful to those who vote for them.


56 posted on 10/14/2019 9:12:48 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Glad2bnuts

Your last paragraph shows you’re not nuts!

I think a good bootcamp style workout would be very good for kids. I know of a private baptist high school in Everett, WA where they really work the boys. A mother told me she’s so grateful that her boys are exhausted and go to bed right after supper and sleep well all night long.


57 posted on 10/14/2019 10:54:07 AM PDT by sciencewriter86
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To: petitfour
"My device does."

I was making lite of it.. My spelling and grammar are so poor sometimes the computer can't even come close to correcting me... Sometimes it doesn't even try... :)

58 posted on 10/14/2019 3:00:39 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: unread

Lol


59 posted on 10/14/2019 3:27:03 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: sciencewriter86

I remember my brother not being able to stay up past 11 on weekends, because of football practice, football games, maybe it was the paper route after school, or the pickup basketball games we always were into if not goofing off riding bikes to the lake. We were tired, and it was because my Father set the pace, and my Mother enforced it.

Summer vacation? More like pick the weeds out of the lawn, mow the lawn, paint the house with a brush, drive yourself on bikes to activities at the lake, or to friends. My mom NEVER gave us a ride to school. Jr High was 2 miles away, she would just tell us to take “shanks mare”. It was not out of the ordinary, our friends also walked everywhere, or rode bikes.


60 posted on 10/14/2019 9:55:13 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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