Have you ever wanted school to start later, well that can have a huge ripple effect. When I say a huge ripple effect, I don't mean a good ripple effect. Have you thought about the impact not just on students, but teachers and parents? Changing school start times to a later time will be very costly, have a huge negative impact on parents, and ruin after school activities.
Changing school start times to a later time will be super expensive. First of all, most counties will have to spend an insane amount of money to push school start times back. For example, “Fairfax County is spending $5 million to push back school start times by nearly an hour this school year,” which is a crazy amount of money for one hour. Secondly, another reason it is super …show more content…
When you hear the topic of changing school start times, they usually think about students and their lack of sleep. Why do people never think about all the impacts on parents? First of all, changing school start times will mess up the drop off and pick up times. Parents will have to come to work late just trying to get their kids to school, and they will have to leave work earlier trying to pick up their kids from school. This can also mean when your kids get off the bus they will be waiting at home alone while their parents are at work. Secondly, if parents don't want their kids home alone, they will have to get their kids in a daycare, which is super expensive. For instance, costs vary, but for two children at the YMCA in West Roxbury, after-school care from 3:25 p.m. until 6 p.m. is more than $700 per month (the cost would naturally go up with the extension of hours needed), plus the yearly membership cost of the YMCA (currently $90 per family). Lastly, some parents have very tight working hours and can not afford to try to get home to their kids. They might not have the budget to get their kids into daycare, and they will have to let their kids stay home alone until they are out of work. This shows how changing the start times will force some parents to put their kids in daycare, which is a ton of money. Those are some reasons why changing the start times don’t just affect people at …show more content…
When the topic of changing school start times comes up, the last people you think about are teachers and changing affects them in a couple of different ways. First, changing school start times will limit the amount of time teachers have after school to grade assignments. This could take a lot of time and most days they will have absolutely no time to do things they want to do after school. Secondly, a major thing changing school start times will affect is after school sports. This could really mess up high school sports and recreational sports. To illustrate “The availability of officials who are often double-booked for games, the need to use additional non-school facilities which would add to transportation costs, and possibly limiting the number of games for non-varsity teams later in the fall season due to lack of light are also factors, Siegal said.” That already is gonna affect a person's sports career and that is not the only data. Not just sports, but this can affect any after school activities, clubs, and programs. For instance, “If high school were to end at 2:45 p.m., Siegal estimated 200-220 events requiring early dismissals of 15-20 minutes “largely due to away contests.” The impact may be less at Conard because the school has the advantage of being right off the highway, he said.” This can really take away from learning time. Lastly, some
Changing school start times to a later time will be super expensive. First of all, most counties will have to spend an insane amount of money to push school start times back. For example, “Fairfax County is spending $5 million to push back school start times by nearly an hour this school year,” which is a crazy amount of money for one hour. Secondly, another reason it is super …show more content…
When you hear the topic of changing school start times, they usually think about students and their lack of sleep. Why do people never think about all the impacts on parents? First of all, changing school start times will mess up the drop off and pick up times. Parents will have to come to work late just trying to get their kids to school, and they will have to leave work earlier trying to pick up their kids from school. This can also mean when your kids get off the bus they will be waiting at home alone while their parents are at work. Secondly, if parents don't want their kids home alone, they will have to get their kids in a daycare, which is super expensive. For instance, costs vary, but for two children at the YMCA in West Roxbury, after-school care from 3:25 p.m. until 6 p.m. is more than $700 per month (the cost would naturally go up with the extension of hours needed), plus the yearly membership cost of the YMCA (currently $90 per family). Lastly, some parents have very tight working hours and can not afford to try to get home to their kids. They might not have the budget to get their kids into daycare, and they will have to let their kids stay home alone until they are out of work. This shows how changing the start times will force some parents to put their kids in daycare, which is a ton of money. Those are some reasons why changing the start times don’t just affect people at …show more content…
When the topic of changing school start times comes up, the last people you think about are teachers and changing affects them in a couple of different ways. First, changing school start times will limit the amount of time teachers have after school to grade assignments. This could take a lot of time and most days they will have absolutely no time to do things they want to do after school. Secondly, a major thing changing school start times will affect is after school sports. This could really mess up high school sports and recreational sports. To illustrate “The availability of officials who are often double-booked for games, the need to use additional non-school facilities which would add to transportation costs, and possibly limiting the number of games for non-varsity teams later in the fall season due to lack of light are also factors, Siegal said.” That already is gonna affect a person's sports career and that is not the only data. Not just sports, but this can affect any after school activities, clubs, and programs. For instance, “If high school were to end at 2:45 p.m., Siegal estimated 200-220 events requiring early dismissals of 15-20 minutes “largely due to away contests.” The impact may be less at Conard because the school has the advantage of being right off the highway, he said.” This can really take away from learning time. Lastly, some