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Back to school: What's new at Woodside, M-A high schools

Original post made on Sep 13, 2016

New courses, staff and facilities are greeting Woodside and Menlo-Atherton high school students, who returned to class Aug. 17.

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Posted by Do you know?
a resident of Woodside High School
on Sep 13, 2016 at 6:37 pm

Wondering if Woodside HS has a plan to move to a later start time, as M-A and others have done?

Woodside Period 1 starts at 8:00 am
M-A starts at 8:45
Carlmont HS 8:57
Sequoia HS 8:30


All the research point to better success for teens that get more sleep, and many schools are making the shift. Why isn't Woodside?


Posted by Menlo Voter.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 13, 2016 at 6:52 pm

Menlo Voter. is a registered user.

If I have to be at work early I go to bed earlier. Why can't these students?


Posted by Stop the Trolls
a resident of another community
on Sep 13, 2016 at 8:28 pm

"If I have to be at work early I go to bed earlier. Why can't these students?"

Maybe something called homework?


Posted by Menlo Voter.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 14, 2016 at 7:15 am

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If the students are being assigned so much homework that it is making them sleep deprived, then that needs to be reevaluated. Starting the day later doesn't solve that problem. It just moves the hours around.


Posted by Dave Boyce
Almanac staff writer
on Sep 14, 2016 at 8:49 am

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One third of Woodside High's students start the school day at 8 a.m., but only because they have added academic support classes, usually for English or math.

Most students at Woodside start the day at 9 a.m. with the second period, a change made several years ago. Of the four comprehensive high schools in the Sequoia district, Woodside pioneered the late start under then-principal David Reilly.