The school’s recent late start and early release days create opposing viewpoints among students. Some favor late start days because they receive additional sleep. The most common praise students give for late start days is the ability to share breakfast with friends.
Hannah Keane(12) took the late start privilege as an opportunity to catch up with a friend and share breakfast together.
“Johnny Naughton(12) and I tried out McCarthy’s Bakery.” Keane said. “The food was delicious!”
Although student’s go back and forth discussing the benefits and disadvantages of late starts students cannot deny that this gives them a chance to share breakfast with friends, which they usually cannot do. Some students have even reported trying out new restaurants because of the time change such as The Egg and I.
Others favor an early release opportunity which provides students with extra relaxation time. Scholars therefore have time to hang out at a friends house, grab lunch together or study more.
The students typically opposing early release days are athletes. These students cannot benefit from an early release, because their practices are still scheduled for regular times.
Sophomore, Lauren Greenstein(9) has softball practice begins at the regular time, regardless of the early release.
“The early release days are annoying because we have to leave school and then immediately come back to school. They are really a waste of time,” Greenstein says.
In some cases students are unaffected by the time changes. Surprisingly, the band which usually has morning practices is not influenced by the late start and early release days.
“It actually doesn’t affect our practices because we have practices on every Tuesday night and have Wednesday mornings off which is typically the day of late starts,” Band member, Brain Dinman says.
The districts policy on late start and early release days is a common discussion topic among students. Often times student’s opinions vary depending on the activities they are involved in. Although the student population will never mutually decide whether late starts or early releases are most beneficial, most can agree that they enjoy the extra time out of class.