Dear Superintendent Culp and Members of the Grandview Heights School District School Board,
We respectfully request your consideration of a one time late start for the school district on January 13, 2015. As you may know, on the night of Monday, January 12th, Ohio State will play Oregon for the College Football National Championship. This is the first time since January 2008 that Ohio State will play in the National Championship Game and it will draw large interest from the local community.
According to a study by American Pediatrics, students need 9 ½ hours of sleep to perform well academically. Students who support and watch Ohio State playing for this national championship title will only get 4-5 hours of sleep. School districts in similar situations have changed school start times to support their team and student learning. In February 2009, the Pittsburgh Public Schools took a late start the day after the Steelers played in the Super Bowl(link below), and the Super Bowl starts much earlier than the NCAA Football National Championship game.
http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/2009/01/29/City-schools-to-have-2-hour-delay-day-after-Super-Bowl/stories/200901290297
In addition to a high percentage of students being Ohio State fans, many teachers and parents are Ohio State alumni and/or supporters of the Ohio State football team. Because much of the Grandview Heights & Marble Cliff residents will be up late watching this historic community event, we respectfully ask for your consideration of a one time late start for the entire school district on January 13th, 2015, the morning after the game.
Updates
January 7, 2015
Superintendent Culp is still ignoring us and acting like this game does not exist. They refuse to acknowledge that expecting students to function on four hours of sleep is absurd. We are turning up the pressure until they stop hiding behind their desks and finally grant this delay.
January 7, 2015
Superintendent Culp and the school board have been silent for far too long while this community demands a reasonable accommodation. This massive surge of support proves that we are not the only ones who see the blatant refusal of the district to acknowledge a historic event.
Reached 100 supporters
January 7, 2015
41 Comments
My son is definitely not going to be awake for the bus if we win. Lets do this.
O-H! Give us the extra sleep
Seriously i will be so tired for my first test if i stay up. please grant the delay.
Go Bucks!! No way I can make it to first period on time after that game.
It's a big game so a lot of people will stay up late. Kids the next day won't be fully functional so it would be useless.
i like sleeping in
pls
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Dear Superintendent Culp and Members of the Grandview Heights School District School Board,
We respectfully request your consideration of a one time late start for the school district on January 13, 2015. As you may know, on the night of Monday, January 12th, Ohio State will play Oregon for the College Football National Championship. This is the first time since January 2008 that Ohio State will play in the National Championship Game and it will draw large interest from the local community.
According to a study by American Pediatrics, students need 9 ½ hours of sleep to perform well academically. Students who support and watch Ohio State playing for this national championship title will only get 4-5 hours of sleep. School districts in similar situations have changed school start times to support their team and student learning. In February 2009, the Pittsburgh Public Schools took a late start the day after the Steelers played in the Super Bowl(link below), and the Super Bowl starts much earlier than the NCAA Football National Championship game.
http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/2009/01/29/City-schools-to-have-2-hour-delay-day-after-Super-Bowl/stories/200901290297
In addition to a high percentage of students being Ohio State fans, many teachers and parents are Ohio State alumni and/or supporters of the Ohio State football team. Because much of the Grandview Heights & Marble Cliff residents will be up late watching this historic community event, we respectfully ask for your consideration of a one time late start for the entire school district on January 13th, 2015, the morning after the game.
Updates
January 7, 2015
Superintendent Culp is still ignoring us and acting like this game does not exist. They refuse to acknowledge that expecting students to function on four hours of sleep is absurd. We are turning up the pressure until they stop hiding behind their desks and finally grant this delay.
January 7, 2015
Superintendent Culp and the school board have been silent for far too long while this community demands a reasonable accommodation. This massive surge of support proves that we are not the only ones who see the blatant refusal of the district to acknowledge a historic event.
Reached 100 supporters
January 7, 2015
41 Comments
this is a tradition we should keep. nobody is going to get any work done anyway if we go in at the normal time
My son is definitely not going to be awake for the bus if we win. Lets do this.
O-H! Give us the extra sleep
Seriously i will be so tired for my first test if i stay up. please grant the delay.
Go Bucks!! No way I can make it to first period on time after that game.
It's a big game so a lot of people will stay up late. Kids the next day won't be fully functional so it would be useless.
i like sleeping in
pls
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this is a tradition we should keep. nobody is going to get any work done anyway if we go in at the normal time