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Name: Ashley Weinaug on May 14, 2008Comments: It's completely unfair, the county was only thinking about themselves.Flag
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Name: Brittany Young on May 14, 2008Comments: This is a ridiculous decision the school board has made.Flag
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Name: Mason Griffin on May 14, 2008Comments: I agree that the school boards decision is absurd and irrational. It must be revoked!Flag
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Name: Mason Griffin on May 14, 2008Comments: I agree that the school boards decision is absurd and irrational. It must be revoked!Flag
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Name: Joshua on May 14, 2008Comments: The time changes are stupidFlag
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Name: Robert Hincapie on May 14, 2008Comments: By swapping the middle and high school times, you will cause both parents and students to lose hundreds of dollars weekly on daycare, jobs, etc. Who will recompensate us for the money we could have earned while working, or for the money we spent on daycare because there was no one to take care of our younger siblingsFlag
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Name: Renee Tooley on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments: I am against this for so many reasons, all of which have been named. My son will now have to work later into the night which will affect homework, my middle schooler will be home alone from 2-6 each day and the drop out rate will increase without a doubt. With today's economy, kids have to work to help families, pay car insurance or just help with the expense of their senior year. What were you thinking This is a no win for everyone involved. I am shocked and appaled that this passed. I hope we get to elect the school board for next year. The board was not thinking of familes and what is best for students. They clearly did not listed to the overwhelming majority who are against this. I am now looking to move out of orange county and so are many others.Flag
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Name: Cara Moro on May 14, 2008Comments: THIS WAS A REALLY BAD IDEA!!!!Flag
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Name: Cara Moro on May 14, 2008Comments: THIS WAS A REALLY BAD IDEA!!!!Flag
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Name: Kaitlyn on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Aiesha Betancourt on May 14, 2008Comments: This school time change is ridiculous!Flag
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Name: Emily on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Erin on May 14, 2008Comments: Its really going to affect all extra cericular activities and organization a lot. We need time to do homework and do clubs and sports. Schools and colleges are always telling us to be well rounded this is going to make it difficultFlag
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Name: Jeanne Bowser on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Emilee Harbin on May 14, 2008Comments: This is ridiculousFlag
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Name: Krystal Griffith on May 14, 2008Comments: I think this change is gay! Honestly people If the wheel isn't broken don't try to fix it!Flag
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Name: Emalie Holmes on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Breedwell on May 14, 2008Comments: Let's do this.Flag
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Name: Breedwell on May 14, 2008Comments: Let's do this.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Katherine Alvarado on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Uma on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Christina on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Adriana Thrasher on May 14, 2008Comments: This is very selfish on behalf of the Orange County school board. Have you not given a second chance to those families that depend on their high school children to watch over their little ones Or what of the bus driver you're cutting jobs off Where are they going to work. Or what about the teachers They're losing thier jobs too. This "budget-reduction" is doing MORE HARM than GOOD. I am not thinking of myself when I say this, but I am speaking on behalf of the entire Orange County staff and students when I say this is a bad idea to save a few lousy bucks. For example, my spanish teacher who I will remain anonymous, was telling the class today about how HE was to pay $3,000 dollars out of his HARD-EARNED money so he can put his little daughter in child day care. (Might I mention it's a known fact teachers are already underpaid) Find a different solution. One great mind can make a solution, a thousand great minds can make a revolution...... -Adriana Thrasher, Sophomore at Apopka HighFlag
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Name: Starr Gauthier on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Brittany Edenfield on May 14, 2008Comments: I think this is insane. This switch is going to affect us in every single way. It needs to be changed.Flag
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Name: Brent on May 14, 2008Comments: In short, no time for homework if you play sports. no time for a job. the organization will say "thats can be worked around and it is personal" but it cant. the money we are supposedly saving will just be lost some other way. or by raising gas prices.Flag
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Name: Chelsea Truesdell on May 14, 2008Comments: NO WAY SHOULD THERE BE A TIME CHANGE!Flag
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Name: Brianna Beebe on May 14, 2008Comments: The time change is not going to allow me to be able to take and complete all my early child education classes or to have a after school job.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Erin Brock on May 14, 2008Comments: It's rediculous and greedy what they're doing. Sure, you may save some money, But there are so many more negative outcomes of this than positive. What about parents What about homework What about extra curiculiar activites What about USFlag
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Name: Rebekah Bentley on May 14, 2008Comments: Through changing the times not only are after school activities going to suffer but so are many families. For once the school board needs to stop thinking about the money and start thinking about the children, and the families they are affecting by the decisions they are making. What happened to being a democracy I believe we should have a voice. We are a nation for the people by the people. We can turn this around, because thats what our country is based on. Who wants their elementary school children home waiting hours for their older siblings to come home to watch them. This is proposterious, and I can't believe its boiled down to the school board being ignorant and taking power into their hands by doing something they know good and well that is going to crash and burn.Flag
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Name: Salena W on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Travis Combs on May 14, 2008Comments: Just another ignorant decision by our school board. Seriously, how the hell did they get into office On topic, don't they know how bad they are affecting everyone NO ONE wants this change. The students don't want it, the parents don't want it, even their educators don't want it. It causes a HUGE safety risk to younger kids (elementary school kids get out an hour earlier than high school kids now), and our only alternative is to send them to an expensive after-school program. We're in an economic crisis and you expect parents to pump anywhere around $50-100 every week for child supervision Also, students have JOBS. Florida laws only allow kids between certain ages to work between certain hours, and making us start school two hours later just cuts into our time to work. You're also messing up the sync with other schools; every other district is still going at the ~2PM release. This causes conflicts with multi-school events, including sports. Ultimately, this was a terrible decision, and I can not believe the people in charge of our school board would make such an uneducated choice. And, just like every other budget decision they've made in the past, they'll learn that the effort to make this change won't save as much as they figured.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments: Many teens have afterschool jobs which they now,will not be able to attend, many of them are helping out with their families income because their parents do not make enough to support the whole faimily, without the teens added income the family will fall into poverty, and the teens with younger siblings who go to their school to pick them up the younger siblings will have no supervision as both parents may be working and their care taker will not end school until 2 hours later. two hours of un superpervised time can you guess what that will lead to idle hands are the devils playplace. with this extra two hours of no supervision the children will be more likely to join a gang or start the use of drugs. which im sure you do not want. also this will increase the amount of alone time with kids, which could lead to alot of middle school pregnancies, those kids will not be supervised and usually do not know the facts about sex, so they would increase their chance of getting pregnant and STD's. Now, would the county really be selfish enough to put various families in poverty, allow children to join gangs and do drugs and become sexually actuve just so they can save some money You may say, they wont do that if they werent going to do it already, which is not the case, since they will not be supervised by older teens, the children will spend more time in groups and together which will create various amounts of peer pressure to do things, however if they wee supervised, this would not happen. when looking at things one must look at all the worst case scenarios, and what i mentioned, is no where near the worst case scenario, far worse can happen. what i mentioned id a completely plausible effect of what could happen in the future if school times are changed.Flag
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Name: Keely Butler on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments: whats going to happen if my grandma goes in the hostpital i have a cousin thats ten and cant get her self off to school yet. and my freind kaley has a five year old sister that has no way to get up with out her! ugh.Flag
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Name: Daniela Flores on May 14, 2008Comments: This isn't going to make kids get more sleep, highschoolers will just go to bed later.Flag
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Name: Natalie on May 14, 2008Comments: change back the freakin times ! highschoolers have jobs you know.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments: change back the freakin times ! highschoolers have jobs you know.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Matt Lorance on May 14, 2008Comments: there is just no way i would be able to hold a job and participate in the sports that i do with this time schedule.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments: Some of us will now have to choose between school or our jobs ; and many of us need the jobs to help support our families ; so which do you think we will chooseFlag
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Name: Anonymous on May 14, 2008Comments: There are way more cons than pros, and the school board knows it!! I hope they make a responsible decision instead of turning our lives upside down.Flag
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Name: Stephanie on May 14, 2008Comments:Flag