Tell me what you really think.
I'm with you. I'm TERRIBLE in the morning - and so is my fiancée.
To make matters worse, I had geometry FIRST THING in the morning sophomore year - and you remember who taught geometry (Jolly Bob).
The man was a cure for acute insomnia.
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It's a shame people can't listen to their internal clocks more. Mine says nap at 3pm everyday but that's when the kids are getting home. (and I'm not joking here - have me drive a car at 3 am and I'm fine, 3pm and I'm nodding at the wheel. I'm a major hazard.) so anyway, all our clocks are set differently - I wish the educational system could work with it more.
AMEN, Mamacita. I remember how awful it was to rise before the sun, then be forced to take a math test, run laps, dissect worms while my eyes were still half shut.
My oldest daughter is in tenth grade now, and she's out the door before seven. Odd that this girl was an honor roll student until this year...She's exhausted, especially if she'd been studying and doing homework until after eleven the night before (don't even get me started on the buttloads of homework many teachers are plopping on our kids these days -- my *nine-year-old* spent THREE hours on homework last night).
I would enjoy reading Plutarch at an early hour...
Night owl here too, and I would have loved school from noon to six!
Oh sign me up for the ERV!! I definitely function better at night/in the wee small hours.
I'm better in the morning but my daughter, almost 16, is not. I didn't really discover that until we started homeschooling when she was 14. Now I let her sleep or just laze around til 11am and then put her to work. It's awesome!
Until she has a 9:30am doctor appointment and the doc says "Michelle, you look a little down or depressed today, is anything troubling you?" Her reply was a giggle and "Doc, I'm homeschooled, I sleep til 11! I feel the way you'd feel at 3am talking to the doctor about your menstrual cycle!" And his reply was "Ummm Michelle, I don't have a menstrual cycle but I get your point."
We love our doctor... now if we could convince the child's father that sleeping til 11am still gives her plenty of time for education, we'd be in good shape...
Amen! Even now, regardless of how much I slept the night before, I'm useless before 10 or 11 am. Luckily for me, nurses can work 11pm to 7am. I'm in my glory.
You are SO right! My own teenagers would greatly benefit from later school hours. I always find it odd that the teens go earlier than the elementary kids do.
Oh...I shouldn't say this because it sounds like a blanket statement and that I hate all of public school but, those "rules" are in part why we homeschooled for 5 years!
My name is Hula and I'm more productive at night! Power to the ERV!
How come nobody listens to smart people like you? Oh, I know: "We've never had to pay attention before."
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