{"id":3548,"date":"2023-11-01T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:25:21","slug":"hows-everyone-been-waking-up-to-this-years-start-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/hows-everyone-been-waking-up-to-this-years-start-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019s Everyone Been Waking Up to This Year\u2019s Start Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>By Bryan Simo, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Last school year, The Howard County Board of Education announced that they would be changing high school start times from 7:25 AM to 8:00 AM and pushing back the end times from 2:10 PM to 2:45 PM. In September, The Board provided an update to start and end times, pushing them back ten minutes to accommodate for the issue of late buses. After living with the major shift for almost two months, how are River Hill students feeling about the start times? Have feelings changed since the beginning of the year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019ve just kinda gotten used to it,\u201d says senior Sarah Chin. Having experienced both start times, she thinks that \u201cit was an easy change to get used to,\u201d and other students agree. Senior Lily Peng, adds \u201cAt this point I don&#8217;t really even notice\u2026 maybe at the beginning of the year but now it\u2019s normal,\u201d so overall it seems like the novelty of the change has worn off for most people. Junior Max Deilius says, \u201cI was excited at first, but now it\u2019s just whatever.\u201d Despite the overwhelming feeling of indifference from the student body, Senior Rahul Manchanda believes \u201cthis was the best thing to happen this year,\u201d claiming that the change in times allows him to go to sleep later, which brings up a good point. How has this change affected student\u2019s sleeping habits?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI go to bed a little later compared to last year,\u201d says senior Zayan Foyez. \u201cStarting [school] later lets me justify it\u201d he explains. But others disagree, senior Shreyas Bhargava says \u201cI go to bed at the same time as last year and it\u2019s nice because I get a little extra sleep\u201d but unfortunately for Shreyas, he says he \u201c[doesn\u2019t] really feel the extra sleep anymore\u201d because he\u2019s used to it, a sentiment which people seem to agree with. \u201cSounds about right,\u201d senior JJ Salter adds to Shreyas\u2019 remarks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Given the response from the students of River Hill, it seems like the student body has grown accustomed to this year\u2019s start times, so when teased with the idea of reverting back to the old start time, the overwhelming response was a no. \u201cI would cry,\u201d laughs senior Tegan Alewine. \u201cNope, can&#8217;t do that\u201d claims sophomore Siri Aria. And senior Daniel Murakami simply exclaimed, \u201cNO!\u201d It\u2019s safe to say that everyone is happy with the new times as is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bryan Simo, Staff Writer Last school year, The Howard County Board of Education announced that they would be changing high school start times from 7:25 AM to 8:00 AM and pushing back the end times from 2:10 PM to 2:45 PM. In September, The Board provided an update to start and end times, pushing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[280,286,269,211,285],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","tag-feature","tag-journalism","tag-rhhs","tag-river-hill","tag-river-hill-high-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}