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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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”.
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.
Maybe he should pass a law that makes them go the bed earlier.
The parents will have to tell their employer they will be coming to work late.
Oh Lord. I started school at 8:15 and ended at 2:30. All activities started at 2:30 and done easily by dark.
The high schoolers in my neighborhood get their bus at 6:15AM. They are in homeroom by 7:15.
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
And this cannot be decided by local school boards and must be the subject of statewide regulation WHY, exactly?
We have "auto correct"..???
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!
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?
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.
This means the kids will be dismissed around 4 pm. The lazy teachers are going to HATE this!
I'm not clever enough to have made this up. Saw it all!
My device does. It gets carried away with words like were and we’re. I should read my posts before I post. Lol
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.
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.
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... :)
Lol
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.
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