That shit all started within the past decade. Kids need structure - a regular schedule.
This new flex crap is BS.
It's interesting. When I was in HS, we had regular hours, but a rotating schedule. Your classes had an order, but they rotated. So Monday started with class 1, then Tuesday class 2, etc. with three days of block scheduling. To create a two-week schedule. It was odd. I think the point was that you had certain classes that weren't always right before lunch or at the end of the day.
Brad's point got me thinking about the oddities and sacrifices my parents made to get us to school. My mom worked three 12s, so she could often do most of it. My dad did the 20-minute AM drive because he worked 10 minutes away. When my mom couldn't pick us up, my dad would leave work early, drive the 30 minutes to get us home, then back to work, which was like 20 with light traffic, but could be more. That was a sacrifice. (We also went earlier for prayers. Which was partially because my mom wanted it, and in retrospect because my dad didn't hate the idea of getting to work earlier)
Then when I was in HS, we did bus in the morning early on, then some pickup scheme in the afternoon, usually. There were a slew of carpools, one that settled when my friend could drive, so he dropped his mom off at work near my house. then drove us. It was kind of a dystopian mess for him, but we weren't the sort that was buying a kid their own car.
Weird to think about the production. It would've been easier to send me to the local public HS down the street, but it was decided (not by me) that I wouldn't thrive in a particularly chaotic environment. The school could be good, but you had to be willing to get brash with adults to make it happen, and I was unlikely to do that.
