Keep the Start Time of Wyckoff Public Elementary Schools at 8:40 a.m.

  • by: Ellen Lawrence
  • recipient: Wyckoff Public School Board of Education

As a parent with a child in a Wyckoff public elementary school, I object to changing the start of the school day to 8:55 a.m.  This makes it impossible for parents with younger children to get them to preschool on time.  It also puts a financial burden on working parents, many of whom are still recovering from the effects of a weakened economy and job market, and must now arrange for both before care and after care for their children.

To the Wyckoff Public Schools Board of Education and Mr. Kuder,


In advance of tonight's Board of Education meeting, I am sending you a petition I have started objecting to changing the start time of the Wyckoff elementary schools to 8:55 a.m.  As a working mother of Wyckoff elementary school students talking to many other working mothers in town, starting this late in the day will create not only a financial burden to working-parent families who have to arrange for morning child care, but also increased anxiety for parents to get to work on time or face losing their job - especially at a time when many families are still struggling or recovering from the effects of a weakened economy and job market.   


I have also spoken to many Stay-at-Home Moms who object because the new start time will make it impossible to get their younger kids to preschool on time.  Many mothers have raised the concern that the drop-off situations at the schools are already problematic, and this will compound the issue as parents will no longer be able to walk their kids to school because of the compressed time they will have to get their children to preschool.


Some parents have mentioned that the YMCA is an option for before care, but find it senseless to drive their children across town only to put their children on the Y bus to go back across town to school.


For these reasons and others, I present you with this petition. Thank you very much for listening to the voices of concerned parents as the new start time is being proposed and considered.  I have already collected over 125 signatures of Wyckoff elementary school parents over the course of a few days, and consider this just the beginning.  I will keep the petition open to continue to capture the opinions of the parents and to let their voices be heard.


Sincerely,


Ellen Lawrence

Update #29 years ago
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