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Now that I have a daughter entering adolescence, I'm reminded that 8:00 a.m. school start times are inhumane, and I can already see how much my daughter will benefit when she gets to college and has the option to start her day a bit later.

Furthering the thread drift… Florida just rescinded the law that would have put into practice a later start time for high schools:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/fl...sleep.html

To give teenagers more time to rest, he pushed for a new law that would require public high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. and middle schools no earlier than 8 a.m. In 2023, Florida became only the second state — after California, its political opposite — to adopt such a requirement, and it asked schools to comply by 2026.

“School start times are one of those issues that both Republicans and Democrats can get behind,” Mr. Renner said in an interview.

This year, it all fell apart.

Facing growing opposition from school administrators who said the later times were unworkable and costly, the Legislature repealed the requirement last month.

BC

[BostonCard]

Now that I have a daughter entering adolescence, I'm reminded that 8:00 a.m. school start times are inhumane, and I can already see how much my daughter will benefit when she gets to college and has the option to start her day a bit later.

Furthering the thread drift… Florida just rescinded the law that would have put into practice a later start time for high schools:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/fl...sleep.html

To give teenagers more time to rest, he pushed for a new law that would require public high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. and middle schools no earlier than 8 a.m. In 2023, Florida became only the second state — after California, its political opposite — to adopt such a requirement, and it asked schools to comply by 2026.

“School start times are one of those issues that both Republicans and Democrats can get behind,” Mr. Renner said in an interview.

This year, it all fell apart.

Facing growing opposition from school administrators who said the later times were unworkable and costly, the Legislature repealed the requirement last month.

BC