From what I heard from other parents it is important to allow our students to attend the lessons at their native language school (Dutch, German, Japanese, etc) or religious classes. Most of these seem to start at 15:00 so ideally IST finishing time should be 14:30.
Most people that I talked to think that starting Secondary School at 08:00 and Elementary at 08:30 would work best. Ideally we should have a school bus run between Secondary and Elementary so that parents who have children on both campuses and live north of Selander Bridge only have to drop their children at Secondary. (We have about 100 families with children on both campuses. I'm not sure how many live north of the bridge).
Everyone agrees that a healthy lunch is important. One parent mentioned to me a while ago that we could ask an outside caterer to offer a lunch box service. The lunch boxes can be delivered at school just before lunchbreak, an excellent idea I think. Adam Fuller straight away mentioned that the Holiday Inn may be an option.
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We live out at Mbezi Beach. In order to beat the traffic we need to be on the road at 6.20 am for a drop off at the upper school at 06.40 and the lower school at 06.55.
The Traffic on Old Bagamoyo Road starts at 6.30 and remains pretty awful until 9ish
Whilst it would be gr8 to sleep in, I think the later start just would not be realistic for our situation.
I for one am quite happy to be at work early.
Conversely we need to think of the reverse scenario, a later start to the day implies a later finish. The traffic out of town starts at about 4.45 and remains hectic till 7ish.
As for when it rains.... :)
-Later start will lead to more traffic jams to and from school, no time saved.
- working parents have to get to their working places in time
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