Starting Wednesday early dismissals

If school is starting 10 minutes earlier, doesn't it seem logical that parents should be allowed to drop their kids off 10 minutes earlier?  Apparently, there was a lot of confusion about the drop off time on the first day of the new school year.  At OCE, the front of the building was jammed full of kids whose parents thought that a 10 minute earlier start time also meant a 10 minute earlier drop off time.  Personally, I was going to use the extra 10 minutes at work to almost make up for the hour I'll be losing each week picking up my child every Wed. for early dismissal?  Does the School Board just like to stick it to the parents, or what?  I just don't get it!!!!!?????

All it's going to take is one parent suing the School Board for early dismissals and extra days off when a child or children get hurt, killed, kidnapped or lost because that child was sent home early, and there is no child care for underage children, and parents cannot make other arrangements or get off earlier from their jobs (that help provide taxes to the school board), and that child should have been in school - unedr the traditional ending school bell. While children can be safe for maybe that hour between 4 and 5 (when parents get home), the School Board's decision to change the start/ending bells on xyz at a whim days gives too much "hang" time to kids.

This Planning time should be completely rescinded by the Boards and the County Commissioners should make sure it does, or the State of NC Children and Family Services for added endangeriment to children. And believe me with so many parents financially strapped, they just cannot buy into the YMCA's extra costs right now.

I would assume that if I am just a parent volunteer that can request a level 4 background check that it more then likely mandatory that all workers hired in WCPSS have background checks.

I just can't imagaine that the custodians and cafateria workers are really going to want to watch students.They were hired to cook or clean not babysit.

I think the BoE members who voted for these early dismissals as well as Ms. Lanane who helped create this mess, should have to rotate schools and help watch the study halls with the custodians and cafeteria workers.....is this not the most insane situation to date?? Custodians and cafeteria workers? can that even be legal? Are background checks done on custodians and cafeteria workers in the school system? and if so, are they normally cleared for level 4 as would be required under these circumstances???

So, school lets out at, say, 1:45 and that football practice starts at 3:00. Does the district *really* think that high school students will voluntarily sit in a study hall for that time? It seems to me that it's far more likely that they'll just leave and come back or hang out in the parking lot or something.

WRT to Kevin Hill's comment, kudos for delegating and then trusting the people who you've delegated to. The board could make its job much easier if it did more of that. HOWEVER, the board needs to make sure that it chooses the *right* things to delegate. Things that are largely administrative and that do not impact large portions of the students should be delegated. (School construction, school naming, etc....) Policy making and decisions that do impact a lot of students should not. Unfortunately, this fits into the second category.