Grand River Transit

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Unfortunately, it's terrible for the students to start super early, in terms of doing well at school:

http://www.startschoollater.net/whats-the-big-deal.html

There is a movement to get schools to start later.

Starting school at 7 AM or earlier is pretty crazy.  8 AM is not so unreasonable, though, I think.

That web site makes a huge number of claims about how evil early school days are, but it has precious little evidence to back up those claims.

That was perhaps not the best link. This one may be better: http://www.startschoollater.net/wake-up-...facts.html

I certainly don't get up at 8 routinely. When I need to, I feel like it affects my productivity. It is certainly true that one is less smart when sleep deprived, and I just can't see how kids wouldn't be sleep deprived by starting at 8.

(So I'm happy for GRT to spend more money if it means that our kids get more sleep.)