part II of the update, part I was done earlier this calendar year after the Advisory Committee completed their work
student and issue of sleep came to our attention, should not lose sight of
Superintendent Ahern making recommendation on school start times to School Committee tonight pic.twitter.com/YzeiAdt7Eb— Steve Sherlock (@FranklinMatters) September 24, 2019
"I would suggest that we pause on its consideration of start time changes across all schools. However, we NEED to continue to address the health of children including sleep."
there will be challenges with the FY 2021 budget, attention needs to be paid there
comprehensive closing study of Davis Thayer requires attention
all collective bargaining agreements are up for renewal this year
MetroWest survey data just came out to say sleep is not increasing among our students
What will be a measure of success for this yet? A return to 2016? or ??
I would be curious to see what other surveys are reporting
current start and end times changes were to meet current contractual requirements and NOT in any relationship to school start times
Linden - there may be members in the community who won't like the idea of pausing. Start times and sleep deprivation is damaging, our district is damaging your children. There is too much tardiness and absenteeism. I deeply disappointed in this decision.
MJ - the pause will not make this go away
Tim Keenan - appreciation for the work done previously, and to Dr Ahern for her answers, I have done a lot of reading and an author of the key studies. I actually got responses. There is a different between sleep research and start time research. There is nothing compelling about start time. The Sleep research is compelling.
Suggestion to come to the Nov meeting on Sleep
Wants to get to a research article that is compelling on Start Time and have a dialog on it.
Feeley - thanks for the summary
Bergen - there are other issues that are in-front of us that we need to deal with
others who have changed recently have taken time to do it right before making the change
Zub - I think it is the right thing to do, there is no right answer, we want to the the best thing for our students. It may be interesting to see if anything is done at the state, California has one on the governor's desk.
11. Executive Session
a. Pursuant to M.G.L. c. 30A, §21(a)(3) to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with the ESP/LPN unit as an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the School Committee and the chair so declares.motion to go to executive session, seconded, passed 7-0
