Mentor si Tito Johnny! Marcos feels ‘safe and secure’ with Enrile as legal adviser I’m not complaining at all because I always heard, that hard work never killed anyone.Marcos and his ‘mentor’, Enrile feted on 99th birthday, Kris Aquino’s dreamy beach house, Robin’s Harvard-educated economic adviser are among the most read stories on Politiko’s Snitch social network this week.ġ. We didn’t have electricity until I was about 10 and studied with coal oil lamps. I didn’t also mention that we heated our house with a wood fireplace and had to get wood each day to get some heat. We weren’t the only riders on the bus, or in the school with similar stories. ![]() Early in fall we had to get off the bus and do things like gather corn by hand and haul it to a corn crib. We were last off the bus in evening, and had the chores all over again. I milked a cow, fed hogs, chickens, cows, a horse. Before boarding the bus, we had chores to do. We were about 15 miles from the school on mostly unpaved roads. I started school in the early 1940s from a small farm and was the first on the bus each morning at just before 7 a.m. Today’s teens are fortunate to live in today’s world instead of the one in which I grew up. The Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board suggests that we ”let teens wake up.” “Oh no,” the governor and Legislature would reply. ![]() And we would be supporting PSTA, hopefully providing expanded service for all users. We do a public service in teaching teenagers about the benefits of buses, trolleys, trams and trains. The school board would have greater flexibility in arranging transportation for elementary and middle school students. High school students would have greater freedom to travel throughout the county. Such programs, like one tried in Thousand Palms, California, have resulted in savings for school districts and increased youth ridership even on non-school days. Want to go back for the football game? Ride the bus. Have an early doctor appointment? Catch a later bus. Staying late for sports or clubs? Catch a later bus. We could then issue all high school students a bus pass and have them travel to and from school that way. The Pinellas County School Board could work with the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority to adjust bus routes to serve high school students in the morning and afternoon. We can provide the health and safety (not to mention academic) benefits of later start times for teens by doing something as simple as giving them a city bus pass. If we are trying to get high schools to start later, eliminate the old argument that busing stands in the way. ![]() Passage of House Bill 733 will ensure that the mental and physical health of teenagers is a top priority. Thank you for publishing scientific data from the American Academy of Pediatrics that proves this to be true. All the theories on education are just fancy words if the basic needs of students cannot be met. I observed this every day for the 20 years I taught high school in Pinellas County. Sleep deprivation results in lethargy, short attention spans and short tempers. Every day, thousands wake up too early to catch buses in the dark. The majority of students are functioning on six hours of sleep or less because of homework, athletic events and work that keep them up past 11 p.m. The best teachers and the best theories on education can’t compensate for teenagers who are sleep-deprived. Start Florida high schools later to let teens wake up | Editorial, Feb. Editor’s note: Readers had a lot to say about a bill that would make it illegal for Florida public high schools to start earlier than 8:30 a.m.
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