Comments on: Notable Quotes from the AJC Article on CSD Start Times

By: Larkspur

Larkspur — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:28:09 +0000

It could be transportation forms. Strangely, I got a letter with an attached transportation form for my youngest last week and we can see his school from our house. Didn’t get one yet for our rising 5th avenue student who will need to ride the bus.

I would say that maybe 80% of kids at 5 th avenue next year may be bus riders.

By: greener

greener — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:49:43 +0000

Agg I hate that our city working hard on being “green” has 14 buses for 4.2 square miles, and 80% riding the bus. We should do better than that!

By: karass

karass — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:44:48 +0000

Not Westchester! It started at 8 AM or 8:15 AM, I think, and Ms. Kuebler was standing right out on the curb to shoo kids in and she knew every single one by name, even during the first week of school, so they hated to be late. She started morning assembly right on time, including the weekly word root or prefix, suffix. There were two buses–Red Bus and Blue Bus–and the rest of the kids walked/biked or were dropped off.

By: karass

karass — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:39:11 +0000

7 AM classes in college? Hmmm, I don’t remember much of that even in courses with science labs. I considered before 10 AM to be a hardship. I guess life in college has gotten tougher…

By: karass

karass — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:37:23 +0000

I think CSD was counting something other than true bus ridership when they were quoted as saying “as many as 80%”, e.g. transportation slips. Either that or they’ve gone and changed math facts on us! No wonder the poor kids struggle with math…

By: Bulldog

Bulldog — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:31:02 +0000

Well said!

By: MathGeek

MathGeek — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:11:46 +0000

Consider:
1. In Dr. Edwards’ letter of March 7, she cited the “stress of trying to fit mandatory subjects into a school day along with 30 minutes of Spanish, art, music or physical education, and recently an outcry from parents for a daily recess” NO TIME has been added to any school’s schedule.

2. In Ms. McKain’s letter of April 12, she indicated that the change in start/end times would “help our large population of athletes get home earlier after practice”. She also states: “We plan to have a time after school for tutorial, meaning no practices will start before that time.” So, will athletic practices really start any earlier?

3. If 80% of CSD’s 2900 students ride the bus and 12% of high schoolers ride the bus (as cited in the 2010-2011 yearbook), that means approximately 104% of remaining students ride the bus.

By: Swill

Swill — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:53:40 +0000

What were the hours of the schools pre-2003 re-org? Did any of them start before 8a?