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Featured Blog: Students Speak Out To Start School Later

Our Patch Local Voices blogger Heather Macintosh asks if families are ready for school to start early again.

 

What time does your teenager wake up on summer mornings? Blogger Heather Macintosh wants to know.

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On Monday, Aug. 27, the first school bell in Montgomery County will ring at 7:20 a.m. Are you ready? Our school start times are among the earliest in the country despite the science that shows school schedules are dangerously out of sync with normal adolescent sleep patterns.

Heather has written extensively on the Start School Later movement. Now she adds some student voices to the mix.

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