[lazyasciiart]

Did anyone suggest making the change, but announcing it today and having it come into effect a year (or even two) from now? That would give parents time to plan adjustments to their schedule, and would give a lot of people the chance to move schools if they really wanted to.

[mrcodedude]

> District officials expected some pushback when they released the new school schedule on a Thursday night in December, with plans to implement in the fall of 2018.

That's a ~9 month notice?

[lazyasciiart]

The first round of applications for schools in Boston is January, so it's only a few weeks (over Christmas!) for families to figure out if they can make it work, if it's worth moving schools, which school they want to move to, etc. (Your chances of getting into your first choice school decline rapidly after the first round).

[kodablah]

Or altering the ideal results to be less drastic at least initially to incrementally work towards the goal. Clearly the problem is the size of the change, not what the change is.