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R s ? TEMECULA STUDENTS AWAKEN TO THE CAUSE ever, the district is considering a later start time for the 2013-14 school year When Ramsay���s students complained based on a poll showing 73 percent of about school���s early start time, she sugparents favor later start times for high gested they do something about it. So they school students, and 63 percent favor it founded the Temecula Valley High School for elementary school students. Sleep Club. More than 200 students signed ���I���m ecstatic,��� says Jason Luque, who up, some thinking it was a place where they was president of the Sleep Club and now could nap. Students made a attends Northern Arizona presentation before the school University. ���I���m glad I did board, and a survey was sent to something to help open parents about later start times. people���s eyes to the fact that ���My students did all the not everything has to stay the research, had a proposal writway it is. There���s no reason ten, and then hit a brick wall for schools to have a schedule because of budget cuts,��� says based on agrarian society Ramsay, Temecula Valley Eduof the 1800s and harvesting cators Association. ���Changing crops. Let���s hope everybody the schedule became a mongoes with logic instead of emoCarolyn Wade etary item.��� tion as the years go on.��� The Sleep Club disRamsay is pleased her banded, and Ramsay thought the issue students��� hard work paid off. She acknowlhad been permanently put to rest. Howedges the issue made her unpopular with some of her colleagues, who did not want their workday to extend later. ���People are alarmed by change. But we can pilot this program and see if kids get sick less often and perform better. Let���s look at the data, and if it doesn���t support change, we can always go back to how things were.��� BELMONT FACULTY SOUNDS THE ALARM Students sleeping in could be a nightmare due to traffic congestion at a busy intersection, say teachers at Carlmont High School in Belmont. ���This is a hot topic because the other schools in our district now start later, and we got a waiver,��� says Kelly Redmon, Sequoia District Teachers Association (SDTA). The school was asked for years to make the change, but as of this month the district backed off, and an earlier start time is no longer on the horizon. April 2013 www.cta.org 11