Wheaton Parents, Students Sign Start-School-Later Petition
Check out the latest information on the Start School Later movement in Montgomery County.
The movement to push back public school start times in Montgomery County may have its widest support in the Potomac and Bethesda areas, according to a study analyzing the Start School Later Montgomery County petition. Six percent of petition signers came from the Wheaton and Kensington areas. The petition urging a later school start time of 8:15 a.m. gathered more than 10,000 signatures in 12 weeks through the fall of 2012 and early January 2013. According to a report released today by the Lloyd Society, a nonprofit research center, support for the petition came from across Montgomery County and corresponded with population distribution. Twenty-seven percent of petition-signers came from the Rockville and Potomac areas, and another 25 …
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Holly Agouridis
10:25 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
@Malcolm great job. Let's start us a petition that we want the government to change the times of rush hour so that I don't have to leave so early in the morning to get to work on time because I can get some more sleep. If you push these kids school time to 8:15 it will mean they will have an excuse to stay up an extra hour and then we are back to square one. more ›