[sporklpony]

There was a movement in my town to push back school start times. However, there are some non-immediately-obvious consequences. Due to limited school buses, school start times need to be staggered, so the options were either to push all school start times back or swap school start times so adolescents start later and younger students start earlier. Pushing all start times back would have resulted with some schools ending around 6pm or 7pm, and swapping start times would have elementary schoolers arriving home before their middle/high schooler babysitters. While it still could have been all worked out, the district came to the conclusion that it would require too large a logistical shift to be practical.

[ianai]

Cite this next time people are wondering why no one's having kids.

[apple4ever]

Well I think at least it should be flopped from older and younger.

But I see no problem with schools ending around 6 or 7. Welcome to regular business.

[thethimble]

But wouldn’t you have the same problem if you kept the times as is? Is this because parents are unavailable to drop their kids off?