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I suspect that anything which jiggers school times is going to attract a fairly large constituency that vocally hates the change. Boston went through this about 5 years ago. https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/what-the-boston-school-bu...

Which pretty much happens whenever you have self-perceived winners and losers with a policy change.

Not sure what the eventual outcome of that proposed change was.

[Oops. Meant to reply to another comment. But there are some similarities across algorithmic optimizations though it's not clear how much of the problem here was the algorithm vs. the implementation.]

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> I suspect that anything which jiggers school times

That isn't what the article is about.