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Are staggered start times common in America?
Every school district I've been in does this.
Very
I've only seen it the other way around, though. Elementary starts first around 7:30 am, middle school at 8 and high school 8:30.
Good God! 7.30!
9am start here for more or less everything, give or take 10 minutes (Ireland).
My preschooler is 9.30.
We had four high schools in our city that used the school buses.
One started at 7, two started around 7:30ish, the fourth started around 8:30.
I was in the 8:30 school. We didn't like it because we didn't get out until 3:30, so all of the other high schools had been out for over an hour at that point. It was a point of rivalry contention between schools.
My oldest starts school at 7:35 and my youngest starts school at 9:20.
Where I'm from primary, middle, and secondary school are near each other, use the same busses & staggered start times, and we have no public busses. At least I see more bike racks now than when I attended!