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Seattle Public School Track and Field Meets Should be scheduled as an extracurricular activity. The current scheduled meet time of 2:45 pm is before the final bell of all Seattle Public School High Schools and necessitates up to 2.5 hours of missed instructional time per athlete per week. By signing this petition, I ask that Seattle Public Schools schedule extracurricular activities after the closing bell of the day in order to support the students, teacher and staff who participate, coach or instruct athletes.
Background
The 2017 Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Track Schedule for Boys and Girls includes 2:45 pm meet start times. This means that most of the meets are scheduled to start during school hours for SPS, making it difficult to term this an extracurricular activity. The SPS Athletics office has indicated the decision to start meets while school is still in session is actually a multifaceted decision that was not made exclusively on transportation dollars. However, the SPS Athletics office has not provided a list of other factors contributing to the schedule.
In order to arrive in time for the meet, students will need to be leaving school by ~ 12:45. This constitutes 2.5 hours of missed class time weekly during Track and Field Season. When multiplied by the number of athletes competing across the SPS district, the amount of missed instructional time totals in the tens of thousands of hours.
Summary
Thousands of classroom hours missed due to scheduling of Track and Field meets is an unacceptable program within the Seattle Public Schools. The signers of this petition ask that Seattle Public Schools revisit the scheduling of Track and Field meets and move these to start after school and disclose all of the issues associated with such a decision for the 2016-17 school year.
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Traditionally track and field meets and other after-school extracurricular events start after the end of the school day, providing a transportation interval for kids to change, board buses, and travel to meet locations. By starting meets at 2:45, a full 30 minutes before the end of the academic school day, participants are required to miss nearly 3 hours of class (change, assembly, transport, warm-up). With daylight savings time starting on March 12, recent assurances that bus scarcity and scheduling issues have been resolved, and the reality of the undue burden this policy places on college bound students, teachers, administrators, and athletic directors, I respectfully request that meet start times be revised to 3:30PM at the earliest.
This needs to be solved SPS. Please remember that school attendance is your priority. Don't make scheduling decisions based on bus availability that undermines this priority.
Fix the ridiculous proposed 3:50pm dismissal!
The start times for these events need to be pushed back. My student can not afford to miss classes.
I won't be able to send my child out of school early every week. He will be able to train, but might not compete
We can't be missing this much school every single week.
Please change the start times so students don't miss class.
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Seattle Public School Track and Field Meets Should be scheduled as an extracurricular activity. The current scheduled meet time of 2:45 pm is before the final bell of all Seattle Public School High Schools and necessitates up to 2.5 hours of missed instructional time per athlete per week. By signing this petition, I ask that Seattle Public Schools schedule extracurricular activities after the closing bell of the day in order to support the students, teacher and staff who participate, coach or instruct athletes.
Background
The 2017 Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Track Schedule for Boys and Girls includes 2:45 pm meet start times. This means that most of the meets are scheduled to start during school hours for SPS, making it difficult to term this an extracurricular activity. The SPS Athletics office has indicated the decision to start meets while school is still in session is actually a multifaceted decision that was not made exclusively on transportation dollars. However, the SPS Athletics office has not provided a list of other factors contributing to the schedule.
In order to arrive in time for the meet, students will need to be leaving school by ~ 12:45. This constitutes 2.5 hours of missed class time weekly during Track and Field Season. When multiplied by the number of athletes competing across the SPS district, the amount of missed instructional time totals in the tens of thousands of hours.
Summary
Thousands of classroom hours missed due to scheduling of Track and Field meets is an unacceptable program within the Seattle Public Schools. The signers of this petition ask that Seattle Public Schools revisit the scheduling of Track and Field meets and move these to start after school and disclose all of the issues associated with such a decision for the 2016-17 school year.
18 Comments
As a teacher, I will not be able to leave two or more hours early from school every Thursday to see my hurdlers and sprinters run their races. Please consider pushing the start of the meet time to a later time.
Traditionally track and field meets and other after-school extracurricular events start after the end of the school day, providing a transportation interval for kids to change, board buses, and travel to meet locations. By starting meets at 2:45, a full 30 minutes before the end of the academic school day, participants are required to miss nearly 3 hours of class (change, assembly, transport, warm-up). With daylight savings time starting on March 12, recent assurances that bus scarcity and scheduling issues have been resolved, and the reality of the undue burden this policy places on college bound students, teachers, administrators, and athletic directors, I respectfully request that meet start times be revised to 3:30PM at the earliest.
This needs to be solved SPS. Please remember that school attendance is your priority. Don't make scheduling decisions based on bus availability that undermines this priority.
Fix the ridiculous proposed 3:50pm dismissal!
The start times for these events need to be pushed back. My student can not afford to miss classes.
I won't be able to send my child out of school early every week. He will be able to train, but might not compete
We can't be missing this much school every single week.
Please change the start times so students don't miss class.
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As a teacher, I will not be able to leave two or more hours early from school every Thursday to see my hurdlers and sprinters run their races. Please consider pushing the start of the meet time to a later time.