Work Group to Consider Later School Start Times
An online petition to begin classes at Montgomery County high schools at 8:15 a.m. has more than 10,000 signatures.
Montgomery County parents and students are speaking up about school start times, and the county's school superintendent is responding. An online petition, "Changing Montgomery County, MD's High School Start Times to 8:15 AM or Later," has asked the county school board to "officially recognize the large and compelling body of research regarding teen sleep and academic achievement," and "to start high schools in Montgomery County, MD, after 8:15 [a.m.]." On Tuesday, schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr announced that a work group would study the issue. That will come as good news to the petition's signers, who already numbered 10,151 by 3 p.m. Thursday. "Sleep deprivation, with such health consequences as depression, suicide, car crashes, …
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