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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Which means they will have at least one less hour of daylight after school.
In reality, California schools are a police action designed to keep punks, drug dealers, and thieves off the street for a few hours per day. Not to mention to provide a handsome montetary gift to the so-called NEA "teachers" voting block.
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.
“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
This is typical government overreach. The old “it’s for the children” thing. Let the educators and parents figure out what’s best for the children. It’s a slippery slope. The next thing we know, some unelected dirt bag will mandate what the children should eat for lunch. Oh wait, the Mooch already tried that. After all, it was for the children. It didn’t work out too well.
I am up the road a piece from you, two hours different from Port Moresby.
Incidentally, our swim team had the highest grades in the school. And for two years running our school had the highest SAT scores in the state. We won state championship too.
Wonder if CALPERS’ investments in China have anything to do with what Newsome is doing....
I'm up super early...but I'm not functioning at a decent capacity. In a couple hours, I'll be up to par.
When I was in high school (45 years ago) band practice and some athletic teams had practice starting around six thirty - seven o’clock. But now a days I have heard the don’t even have music classes or athletics anymore.
Emperor Norton has risen from the dead!
Next he’ll set at all clocks back by one hour.
Well, it’s either night school now...or night school later to get their GED. What difference does it make?
This commie is a busy little man. All of them are. The left is moving fast to change this country for the worse. Whether Trump wins or loses these people are going to have to be beat and eliminated. In the streets and the field. It will come to that. Our liberties are in jeopardy.
Public schools, anyway. Especially the day care centers that take care of the 19 and 20 year old whining, entitlement black students; offspring of whining, entitlement black parents.
They don't learn. Can't be disciplined. And prevent other students from getting anything resembling an education. It's all nothing but a ponzi scheme, anyway. A scam designed to keep the paychecks flowing for the relatives of high ranking administrators.
830 for high school? Just transitioning them to a more normal post high school life style where the over under wake up time for betting is noon.
I went to a large union high school for a while. Split classes. 2 different start times. I had to be on the bus at 6:00am. It wasn’t fun but it didn’t hurt me. It’s actually a good thing to discipline yourself to get up early.
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