Keewaydin is a late start school, so class doesn’t beign until 9:40.  This means that it goes until 4:10 in the afternoon, but I think this is a good tradeoff.  As a teacher and student, I feel more alert at 9:40 than I do at the ungodly hour of 7:45 that my high school started at.  I can imagine that many of the students feel the same way.  In middle school and high school especially, students need a lot of sleep, and many of them have a poor habit of going to bed early.  I always tried to get a good amount of sleep in high school, and first hour was still always a blow off.  The late start time lets students get a few more hours of sleep so that they’re more awake and ready to learn.   Of course, this means that parents need to find appropriate transportation for their kid in the morning much later than most jobs start, but the benefits outweigh this problem.

And if it snows like it did on my last friday there, there is much more time for the roads to be plowed before school starts