Tha doesn’t always work. The school I was supposed to go to for high school (before moving prior to the year starting) did that by default. Grades 11-12 started early and got out early. Grades 9-10 started later and ended later. There were about 3 hours of overlap.
I think the comment you are replying to would suggest that for every kid that choice gets to be made by their parent(a) /guardian as to whether or not they start late or early.
I was trying to give a counter point about that type of flex schedule already happening at some schools. But it isn’t based on parental choice.
It’s a hard thing to do in practice. You can’t have 1/3 a 1/2 of the classes duplicated throughout the day. Are you going to have two honors chemistry classes? Not all of the classes could be offered in that core set of hours when everyone was there. Or are you only going to have electives in the morning and afternoon hours?
It worked for the larger school because the classes were split by grade. So you didn’t have two freshman English classes. You had freshman in the afternoon and seniors in the morning.
The real problem is now instead of covering 6-7 hours of classes, teachers would need to cover 9-10 hours. You aren’t going to hire more teachers to do this. Is the Economics teacher going to only have classes from 7-10 and then 1-4?
The more I think about it, the more unworkable it seems.
