bell schedules have stayed the same, count yourself fortunate, but if you’re not looking at [bell schedules] you don’t know if you’re fortunate or cursed.”
Extracurricular Activities An erstwhile victim of the unintended collater-
al damage caused by changing bell times and bus routes are sports and other extracurricular activities, although their accommodation can be planned for. Florida’s Sawyer said neither football nor other ath-
letic teams will receive preferential treatment when it comes to the availability of buses after school. He said high schoolers are in tiers one and two so there should not be a problem with transportation home from practices or to games. “Middle schools have athletics but not to the level
of high schools,” Sawyer said. “Now we typically say we can start after school field trips at 4:45 p.m. but that time will have to be adjusted. We have not decid- ed yet, but it will probably be between 5:15 and 5:30 when we can cover field trips. The reality is I might
have buses that do not have a tier four run and they could potentially take earlier field trips but that would be a special request. It would be first come first serve but the bulk of our after-school trips are athletic in nature.” Meanwhile, Waltersheid said the trickledown effect
of bell changes impacts sports, and he again stressed the importance getting good data to make good de- cisions in the face of changing priorities. “When we first did the four-tier system, we had the
high school going in first. Now the wind of change is saying we want high school to start later and sleep in because of the educational needs, so that’s a whole new dynamic now because [while] we would be letting out that junior high campus, all the high schoolers are needing to go to their athletic events,” he explained. “So, we have that new dynamic and how it all plays into bell schedules. The first step is you’ve got to gather all the data. Routing is trash in and trash out. You get the right data and you put good [data] in and great will come out.” ●
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