School Start Times

 I attended a meeting at our local high school last nite to discuss a new start time for our high schools and elementary schools. My 14 y/o will now be starting school at 8:15 in the morning, not sure when the bus will be here to pick him up that early!! Only problem is my youngest ones will not be starting school till an hour later at 9:15.

 

Having teenagers I had a built in babysitter. All my children caught the same bus and therefore when hubby and I both were working and had to leave before the bus came, there was no worry. This fall my youngest will be starting kindergarten and therefore I thought we would be all done with babysitters, as she would now go on the bus right along with the boys. Well, so much for that idea!!! Now it seems I will have to have a sitter for both of the younger ones because the two oldest will both be in high school. That is if there is enough room on the bus for them at the sitters house!

 

If you ask me, the teenagers now getting out of school at 2:30 gives them an even long period of time to get into mischief while waiting for parents to get home from work. They will be starting much to early for kids who need a LOT of sleep and will now be getting up an hour earlier in the a.m. and having to try a wrap their brain around say, chemistry that early in the morning could be quite the challenge!

 

The school board will be saving only 5 cents on the dollar by making this move and I for one would gladly help to incur those costs, as all the rest of the parents seemed to agree last nite, as it would probably be much less than the daycare costs that I will incur.

Now they will be sending two buses by our door. One early one for Cody and soon Colin and then one an hour later for the younger two. That's my dilemma There is no one around here that could watch the younger two for that hour (and all the highschoolers are already gone on their buses) so that means because of that one hour I will have to take the two younger kids to the sitters at 6 in the morning where they will have to wait 2 1/2 hours for the bus to come. That is, if that bus happens to have room for all of the kids who will be at the sitters now waiting for a bus to come!!

 

Just wanted to know how many of you already have early start times? For how long now? And how did your kids deal with the early hours??