Seattle Public School District’s high school student-athletes currently have to leave school at 1pm for ‘away’ events that start at 4pm (at the earliest) because the SPS transportation plan failed to account for increased bus demand when bell times were changed for the 2016-2017 school year. This oversight forces students to miss lunch, 5th and 6th periods, and negatively impacts students, teachers, and administrators.
We, the undersigned, request that SPS implement one of the following solutions:
1) SPS provides alternative bus transportation and pays the difference in price
2) SPS acquires more yellow school buses for our use
3) SPS allows schools to use other vendors for transportation
Updates
October 12, 2016
The momentum behind this is undeniable and it proves that Seattle Public Schools cannot keep ignoring the academic damage they cause by forcing athletes out of the classroom at midday. This administration expects top performance from students while actively sabotage their education. We are forcing them to look at this failure.
Reached 100 supporters
October 12, 2016
21 Comments
It is already a challenge for student athletes to complete their homework when participating in a sport after school. When students miss a large portion of their classes due to insufficient transportation, they are not getting the proper education to complete their tasks assigned by the teachers.
Please find a way to provide transportation for our students. Having them drive themselves and others opens the district to potential liabilities and law suits should accidents or other things occur.
Another example of how late start times don't work and another example that you need to FUND transportation SPS! You try to do everything while keeping the number of buses the same - fund the entire process of school and quit doing it with half transportation. Force the state to fund it too. Stop making our students succeed in spite of their district's and state's failing them
Making kids miss lunch and 2 classes to compete in WIAA athletics was totally avoidable. Sea. Public Schools clearly didn't think about extracurricular activities, and instead got excited about sleep studies. Late start has been really poorly implemented, and booster orgs and parents have no options. We need to fix this now and not what until next year.
Moving the starting time back an hour is sensible, but not if you don't shift after school activities correspondingly. Metro XC meets start at 3:40, and there is not sufficient time to leave after 5th period and get the athletes to the venue in time to warm up.
Let's keep academics and athletics in the lives of our children. Solve this transportation issue, so our kids can stay in the class room and participate on school teams.
I strongly support this petition!!! Releasing athletes 3 hours early for a sporting event is not really feasible, kids can't miss that much school time.
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Seattle Public School District’s high school student-athletes currently have to leave school at 1pm for ‘away’ events that start at 4pm (at the earliest) because the SPS transportation plan failed to account for increased bus demand when bell times were changed for the 2016-2017 school year. This oversight forces students to miss lunch, 5th and 6th periods, and negatively impacts students, teachers, and administrators.
We, the undersigned, request that SPS implement one of the following solutions:
1) SPS provides alternative bus transportation and pays the difference in price
2) SPS acquires more yellow school buses for our use
3) SPS allows schools to use other vendors for transportation
Updates
October 12, 2016
The momentum behind this is undeniable and it proves that Seattle Public Schools cannot keep ignoring the academic damage they cause by forcing athletes out of the classroom at midday. This administration expects top performance from students while actively sabotage their education. We are forcing them to look at this failure.
Reached 100 supporters
October 12, 2016
21 Comments
The sleep studies used to rationalize the school start time change may be valid, but employed in isolation those changes have caused issues because other parts of the system were not changed. Kids missing more school, higher transportation costs for charters, unreliable charter service, late arrival at competitions, and administrative overhead were all avoidable. Additionally the football team had to rent lights (saw them delivered yesterday) that are inadequate and expensive, but better than pitch dark. Rumors of an additional 20 minutes added to the day next year are equally concerning - hopefully any extra time will be added to the 'zero' period and not to the end of the day.
It is already a challenge for student athletes to complete their homework when participating in a sport after school. When students miss a large portion of their classes due to insufficient transportation, they are not getting the proper education to complete their tasks assigned by the teachers.
Please find a way to provide transportation for our students. Having them drive themselves and others opens the district to potential liabilities and law suits should accidents or other things occur.
Another example of how late start times don't work and another example that you need to FUND transportation SPS! You try to do everything while keeping the number of buses the same - fund the entire process of school and quit doing it with half transportation. Force the state to fund it too. Stop making our students succeed in spite of their district's and state's failing them
Making kids miss lunch and 2 classes to compete in WIAA athletics was totally avoidable. Sea. Public Schools clearly didn't think about extracurricular activities, and instead got excited about sleep studies. Late start has been really poorly implemented, and booster orgs and parents have no options. We need to fix this now and not what until next year.
Moving the starting time back an hour is sensible, but not if you don't shift after school activities correspondingly. Metro XC meets start at 3:40, and there is not sufficient time to leave after 5th period and get the athletes to the venue in time to warm up.
Let's keep academics and athletics in the lives of our children. Solve this transportation issue, so our kids can stay in the class room and participate on school teams.
I strongly support this petition!!! Releasing athletes 3 hours early for a sporting event is not really feasible, kids can't miss that much school time.
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The sleep studies used to rationalize the school start time change may be valid, but employed in isolation those changes have caused issues because other parts of the system were not changed. Kids missing more school, higher transportation costs for charters, unreliable charter service, late arrival at competitions, and administrative overhead were all avoidable. Additionally the football team had to rent lights (saw them delivered yesterday) that are inadequate and expensive, but better than pitch dark. Rumors of an additional 20 minutes added to the day next year are equally concerning - hopefully any extra time will be added to the 'zero' period and not to the end of the day.