Against Research-Aligned Scenario (option b) Regarding Wayzata School Start Time Considerations

Any research focusing on short period effects has the potential flaw of neglecting the long term impact on students' future academic performance. Please be considerate, especially to really young little kids.

support! vote for status quo

Our family vote for option A-Status Quo Scenario. We are strongly against Option B-Research Aligned Scenario. It is extremely unfair to guarantee high school students' sleeping time at the cost of our younger kids. It is particularly not proper for Minnesota Cold weather. I can't imagine a 5 or 6 years old kid walk in the cold dark winter morning, stumble on the icy road and stand in the chilly wind,waiting for the buses. Not to mention the early childhood developmental hardship due to the lack of the sleep, the financial burden to cover the cost of day care and the reduced family time when they need to go to bed very early. My kids now are at oakwood elementary. The school starts at 7:45. The bus picks them up at 7:16. It is already very early. They complained they are so tired in the school that they fall asleep on the ground almost every day. I don't know how you-the decision makers feel when you hear your precious ones say they fall asleep on the ground at the school while other kids running around them. It breaks my heart. It breaks many parents' heart. So please for the children 's development healthiness and the family wellbeing, don't let our little ones sacrifice. Of course we can't sacrifice the high school students either. The best solution is adding buses. If the other school district can do, our school district can do it as well.

I vote for option A-Status Quo Scenario. I am strongly against Option B-Research Aligned Scenario. It is extremely unfair to guarantee high school students' sleeping time at the cost of our younger kids. It is particularly not proper for Minnesota Cold weather. I can't imagine a 5 or 6 years old kid walk in the cold dark winter morning, stumble on the icy road and stand in the chilly wind,waiting for the buses. Not to mention the early childhood developmental hardship due to the lack of the sleep, the financial burden to cover the cost of day care and the reduced family time when they need to go to bed very early. My kids now are at oakwood elementary. The school starts at 7:45. The bus picks them up at 7:16. It is already very early. They told us they are so tired in the school that they fall asleep on the ground almost every day. I don't know how you-the decision makers feel when you hear your 5 and 7 years old daughters say they fall asleep on the ground at the school while other kids running around them. It breaks my heart. So please for the children 's development healthiness and the family wellbeing, don't let our little ones sacrifice. Of course we can't sacrifice the high school students either. The best solution is adding buses. If the other school district can do, our school district can do it as well.

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We as a family with elementary school kid plan to move to Wayzata school district 284, but will reconsider our moving plan if the school district picks option B for elementary school start time.

choose A； Disagree B

No sensible parents of elementary school students will like the Research-Aligned Scenario because it hurts little kids.

School start time for high school students need to be in alignment with the natural sleep patterns, and the same theory applies to elementary and middle school students. The Research-Aligned Scenario benefits the high school students at the cost of elementary school students. In the Research-Aligned Scenario, the elementary school students will be sleep-deprived.

Great job!

little kids in elementary school need most sleep time.

As a full-time working mom, i fully agree with what have been addressed in this petition letter,. Early start for little ones have signigicant negative impact on themselves and their families.

I agree with all the points here. The school district selectively choose the research to reach their goal and totally ignore elementary students. That's unbelievable. No other school district is doing this. This will make wayzata an outlier.

Please consider other alternatives for high school kids. Please do not struggle small kids.

Can't the district add more buses? I believe we are dealing with little ones here. Harsh winter, after school activities, sports, family-time, study times, what not. I believe things we make should be growth oriented. How can we make more productive. Last but not least, this change will highly impact on district ratings as well. PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE START TIME FOR LITTLE ONES.

This sure has to be considered.. For the MN weather!!

support! kids in elementry need sleep to 7 or 730am because of their biological clock per research. my k teacher neighbour said her student won't be able to perform if start at 730

We are strongly against option B as the school board proposed. It doesn't help at all with increasing family time. Instead, it increases our financial burden, decreases our family time, strongly affects elementary students' sleeping time and quality. Not to mention it tremendously impacts extracurricular activities for all students in the school district as well as daily schedules for the families with younger kids. The proposed change even can't be considered as a temporary solution. We strongly demands the school district to increase the school buses, which surely turns out to be the ultimate solution.

Early starts for elementary school is too dangerous in cold minnesota winter!

Add more buses to help high school students, instead of the stupid idea of sacrificing elementary students' sleeping time.

I can’t agree with the above opinions. I think high school students should have the late school schedule because they have the heaviest workload and deserve longer sleep time than other students.