Clayton High School Annouces New Start Time

Actually7 the 6 am thing was probably better for their health due to the heat

 

We practiced inside, just the music - not the marching. Come to think of it - we never really did practice marching much. Could be why I was always out of step or held my instrument up while others had put theirs down. lol

 

Maybe it's a time management issue then, because I know it's more like this in my house....

Kiddo gets up at 4:45 showers, makeup/hair, dressed and breakfast by 6:00. She socializes and or sleeps on bus ride to school. Gets home from school around 3:15 then does homework for approx. 2 hrs-3 hrs (don't they have study hall). She either socialized or did homework on the bus ride home. Dinner time now around 6:30-30 mins. to eat and then IF she isn't finished with homework she'll continue it for another hour. So let's assume by 8:00 she's finished with homework...she can talk on the phone or watch tv for an hour. I can tell you this though, she's never had that much homework-unless it was during a special project. Yes, HS will be a little different, but my bf across the street, daughter was a freshman in HS honors classes last year and she was pretty much done with her homework by 5-5:30 everyday just like my daughter and then they would hang out the rest of the night.

I just think this is another example of making a mountain out of a mole hill. I mean really...do you complain about everything you don't have control over and make excuses of the hardship it's causing? See in my house we have a get it done attitude..not a poor me attitude.

 

QFT!

 

Which one did you mean??

QFT Quit Freaking Talking
QFT Quite Freaking True
QFT Quoted For Truth

 

you know me well enough to not have to ask that question, don't you?

















#3

 

Glad to hear you have it under control. Wish we did. Mine struggled with French I and II last year and had two tutors. This happened to be her first class each semester.

Let's see, Honors Civics had teens at our house getting ready for a debate on a Landmark Supreme Court Case more than once and each brought a laptop and stayed around three hours on a school night. They debated another class, which also had kids staying up late to prepare each time. Wonderful class, seems all kids learned a lot and even used items from the college Psychology class they had taken prior, which kept them up learning. Sorry, just could not fit that 9:00 pm time in on some of that.

Cleo...yes, in our house we do understand the early morning practice. My teen gets up three days a week at 4:00 am (or did before the new times) for swim practice before school then goes five days a week for afternoon practice. Yep, cuts into that study time.

No poor me on our end. On our end it is Speak Your Mind! Seems others have and we might see a quick change. Did last year. Still wish I were as perfect a parent as some others.

Gotta run,
Sherry

 

I was just messing with you...trying to prove I'm not perfect8), but it didn't work....:lol:

 

uh, do you not realize what you just said? try giving up the swim practice. if you don't have time for something, but you do it anyway, how can you complain about not having time?

 

Time management, what a concept.
Here's one for ya.
My youngest is 16, she will be in her third year at Clayton, here's her morning: ain't no 4:45 or 4:00 early morning rising for this girl to get ready, way...way too early for her butt to get out of bed. She crawls from out of the covers at 6:20, does what she needs to do and beats me to the car at 6:55 for the drive to school. She showers the night before, has her clothes picked out the night before, in the morning she grabs a banana and her Kashi cereal (loves it dry), juice or milk, grabs bookbag (which was packed the night before) and out the door. This is all do to her love for sleeping in the morning. She has tried the "get up early and shower thing" didn't work for her. Just gotta find what works.
Kids, ya gotta love'em.:lol:

 

Yep, my daughter does that other mornings as well. It all depends on what's going on the evening before and the day of school if she showers in the morning or at night.

I wish I could take my shower at night and just get up, straighten my hair, apply a little makeup and go...it'd take me all of 20 mins. if so. If I don't take a shower in the am...I don't wake up.

 

Girl, that's why I have the auto on my coffee maker, it beeps when the coffee is done and the dog hears it and starts whining to go out, bam.....I'm up, grab the coffee mug set out by the coffee maker, open the door for the dog and take my first big gulp.......or was that take a big gulp and then let the dog out.
I'm the same as her, for the most part I shower just before bed because it just too much in the morning without a half of pot of my best coffee.:lol:

 

That would work for me...IF I liked coffee...I don't drink caffeine usually.

 

I come from a big family of coffee drinkers. We can eve be a the beach and someone will put start a pot up and yell coffees done, then the stampede begins.
As for me, I just love coffee and the caffeine is an add luxury. I've tried giving the caffeine up but the headache that results from that is just too much for me to handle and the family ends up begging me to drink it with caffeine.

 

Yes, I do. My first scenario did not include swim practice. I purposely left it out as teens do band, sports, clubs, etc. We could certainly cut down swim practice to afternoons and on some weeks only limited practice...which is exactly what we do!!!

That is why I did the first one for ya' and then threw in our day later. Keep up, db. I didn't even go into building a concentration camp while at a swim meet or other things. Those are things we must control on our own. Just get a feel of one family, without anything extra, and then another with just one thing extra.

Gotta love those early hours at school. Bettcha' the band and football parents are gonna love this too. How about the ones who are junior varsity and have games during the school week? High school swim meets are not on Friday or Saturday nights...nope, we don't have that going our way.

Anyho...spoke my mind and hope that others will too. Seems like our school board came up with the $$$ last time, why not now?

Sherry