Last Thursday it was brought to the attention of our school PTA Board that the Seattle School District is planning on changing the start time of K-8 schools to 8:00am. This decision is apparently a done deal, although they are appeasing people by pretending that the decision is not "made" yet. I have real problems with this decision for many differing reasons. But my biggest problem - they are planning on making this change and have not done any real work at publicly announcing the plans. People are and have been touring and enrolling in schools for next year. They have been making decisions based upon the information that the schools, and PTA's have been giving them. Did any of these parents get the information about the planned schedule change? Our school is one of the schools that will be changed to an 8:00 am start. What about the parents that chose our school specifically because of the later start time for middle school? How about the parents that chose our Kindergarten program, when they could have chosen a different school if they had known about the time? And yes, what about me? I don't want to have to get my kids up and going at 7am. They already go to bed at 8pm and have a hard time waking up at 8am. But I dont get to have the information in time to consider a different school.
And the School District and School Board wonder why parents are so FRUSTRATED with the Seatte School District. Does anyone know how to get into Shoreline?
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