[johnfn]

I don’t know. My schools first period was 7:50, but that meant we’d normally have to wake up around 5:45 in order to get ready for the bus, which came by our house around 6:45.

A two hour period from waking to being in first period seemed pretty normal, and even if you subtract that from a “more generous” 9am, you still get 7am, which is pretty brutal on adolescents which are known to have shifted sleep schedules.

[zaphod12]

What on earth were you doing for an hour in the morning?! Even today I can be out the door in 20 minutes and forget it, as a teen I probably could do it in 7.

That is also, I think, an abnormally long bus trip, but maybe that's my bias.

[janeerie]

I'm guessing you weren't a female teenager.

I had a very similar schedule to the person you're responding to, except our high school started at 7:25. I'd take a little extra time in the morning just to get my head together before going to school.

[PebblesRox]

We lived right on the border with the neighboring school district, so I was one of the first kids on the bus. The school was only fifteen minutes away but my bus ride was 45-50 minutes one way, and the bus got to the school with 10 minutes to spare before the first period.

So maybe not typical but definitely believable for me. There are probably some kids in almost every district that have to get on the bus an hour before school starts.

[johnfn]

* wake up

* be really tired (5 min)

* take shower (10)

* get dressed (5)

* eat breakfast (10)

* walk to bus stop (takes 15-20 min, sometimes my parents would drive me)

* buffer

[dunefox]

I had the same situation: I was so extremely tired when getting up at 6 that I basically needed an hour to eat cereal and shower.