Clock is ticking on school start times

The School Committee will vote on Monday, Nov. 19 to decide between two proposed schedules for the 2018-19 school year. The biggest difference between the two is that the second scenario will maintain shorter Wednesdays whereas the first will not. The School Committee selected these two scenarios in late June as finalists after cutting three other potential start times. For WHS, Scenario 1 wo...

Although the School Committee decided to take the current schedule off the table in June 2018, many members of the Wayland community have expressed desire in recent October public forums to bring it back. According to a WSPN survey pictured below, about 63 percent of WHS students would rather have a 7:30 a.m. start time than an 8:30 a.m. start time. About 74 percent of WHS teachers share the sam...

As most would anticipate, shifting schedules by an entire hour will alter many different aspects of life for WHS students. The three main ones that have emerged have been METCO transportation, sports games and morning traffic. The community has expressed concern through surveys and public forums that the School Committee has not sufficiently outlined plans regarding these implementation issues....