Comments on: Education Matters: Sleeping through lunch http://www.delmartimes.net/2011/11/03/education-matters-sleeping-through-lunch/ The Latest News from the Community of Del Mar Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:23:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: marsha sutton http://www.delmartimes.net/2011/11/03/education-matters-sleeping-through-lunch/#comment-298846 marsha sutton Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:18:49 +0000 http://delmartimes.mscsddev.com/?p=28882#comment-298846 For those interested in reading more of the evidence that continues to pile up about the overwhelming advantages to teenage students of later start times, see this advocacy letter -- <a href="http://schoolstarttime.org/2011/10/03/sample-advocacy-letter/" rel="nofollow">http://schoolstarttime.org/2011/10/03/sample-advo...</a> -- Marsha Sutton For those interested in reading more of the evidence that continues to pile up about the overwhelming advantages to teenage students of later start times, see this advocacy letter — http://schoolstarttime.org/2011/10/03/sample-advo... — Marsha Sutton

]]> By: Sharilyn http://www.delmartimes.net/2011/11/03/education-matters-sleeping-through-lunch/#comment-297743 Sharilyn Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:56:18 +0000 http://delmartimes.mscsddev.com/?p=28882#comment-297743 Thank you for (again) bringing this important issue up. It's ridiculous that school would start before 8 am. How many workers are required to be at the office before 8 am? And with so many reasons to have a later start, one would think that they could work something out for the sports teams that would not require the entire student body dragging themselves to school before they are ready. When I was in high school (a hundred years ago, granted!) school started at 9 and some of the sports teams and the marching band got an hour a day in BEFORE school. Thank you for (again) bringing this important issue up. It's ridiculous that school would start before 8 am. How many workers are required to be at the office before 8 am? And with so many reasons to have a later start, one would think that they could work something out for the sports teams that would not require the entire student body dragging themselves to school before they are ready. When I was in high school (a hundred years ago, granted!) school started at 9 and some of the sports teams and the marching band got an hour a day in BEFORE school.

]]> By: Susan http://www.delmartimes.net/2011/11/03/education-matters-sleeping-through-lunch/#comment-297730 Susan Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:52:07 +0000 http://delmartimes.mscsddev.com/?p=28882#comment-297730 I have no children in this school, but I have raised 4 teens and I would not want my children leaving campus for lunch. Nor would I want their lunch period extended to 80 minutes. That is such a waste of time! They're in school to learn, and I know socializing is a part of their development, but 80 minutes of it, off campus? Sounds like a good way for a lot of reasonably good kids to just get into trouble, without really meaning to. Of course some of the kids wanted 80 minutes for lunch off campus -- of course they did! Geez... give me a break. What a bad idea. :( "For the older students, “they can actually eat a leisurely lunch as opposed to stuffing their faces and sprinting back to the school,” he said." -- um... keep them at school and this won't be a problem. I just can't imagine how this behavior was ever implemented and for what purpose. I have no children in this school, but I have raised 4 teens and I would not want my children leaving campus for lunch. Nor would I want their lunch period extended to 80 minutes. That is such a waste of time! They're in school to learn, and I know socializing is a part of their development, but 80 minutes of it, off campus? Sounds like a good way for a lot of reasonably good kids to just get into trouble, without really meaning to. Of course some of the kids wanted 80 minutes for lunch off campus — of course they did! Geez… give me a break. What a bad idea. :(

"For the older students, “they can actually eat a leisurely lunch as opposed to stuffing their faces and sprinting back to the school,” he said." — um… keep them at school and this won't be a problem. I just can't imagine how this behavior was ever implemented and for what purpose.

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