Lower Merion School District Healthy School Start Time

As a teacher I never understood why the older kids start so early when the littles ones are naturally up early and the older ones have activities so late- it’s made no sense to me. I hope they change this! It really really bothers me young kids are in school till 3:35. I hope we follow suit with TE and Radnor for all children’s sake...

What's taking so long??

Supporting!

Our children are sleep deprived & have a hard time waking for 6:40AM bus. This exacerbates their stress and hurts their well being. Winter mornings are especially difficult

Please change the start time for the well being of our students.

Why are we lagging behind other high performing school districts such as Radnor & TE in following AAP guidelines and moving back the start times for their middle schools and high schools? Please institute this change for the 2020- 2021 school year.

There’s too much data showing support for these changes. Come on already!

Absolutely agree.

sleep is so important to brain and body health. Being in such a competitive school district; our kids need that healthy balance of sleep - work - play/sports

Yes

As a therapist who has worked with teens in the area for decades, I am aware of how the level of fatigue increases stress. A later start time would definitely mean our teens would get more much needed sleep. Thank you for considering this.

Please get this done LM!

It’s about time!!!

This needs to happen ASAP!

I first went to a presentation on this topic when my daughter was in middle school. I went in with no preconceived opinions other than that it might be nice to not have to drag my child out of bed quite so early in the morning but mostly out of curiosity. I left the presentation, amazed by the research on the multitude of positive impacts of a later start time, and thoroughly convinced that LMSD would soon be instituting these changes. It was inconceivable to me that anyone could have listened to the facts and not be moved to action. My once middle school daughter is now in college. It has yet to happen at LMSD. Please institute later start times. It’s time.

We need to learn from Tredyffrin school district and other school districts who changed their start times to later and they are already higher in school ratings than LMSD They care for their children’s sleep and want them to learn better

LMSD has been dragging their feet on this for years seemingly hoping the problem would go away. It won’t. Our teenagers are exhausted. Many local schools have made these changes including my husbands district, Conestoga, which in one year of examining the issue moved start times back to 7:50am. It’s not ideal but every minute of extra sleep these kids get in the morning is a good thing.

I would like to see all the start times reversed. Elementary school starting at 7am and ending at 2:50 and high school starting at 9:20 and ending at 3:20

I was a former student here. I would have done so much better if classes started later.

Flip High School and Elementary School starting times.