Q: Tell me some of the recommendations you heard at the Feb. 12 workshop.

A: We have a committee of teachers, administrators and parents that look at all of our elementary programming and look at every part of the elementary school day. In those recommendations that came out of there, in order to start putting those recommendations in place, we are looking at possibly extending the elementary school day.

Q: How will the school board move forward with the discussions regarding start times?

A: We are going to continue the conversation of recommendations for elementary (start and end times), and then we are going to move on to talking about the actual length of the day, what the length of the day is and then what that means for the start time for elementary (schools), what that means for the start time of secondary (schools) and the end times for both (elementary and secondary schools).

Q: Is there a possibility that middle and high school start times will switch with elementary start times?

A: Looking at not only the elementary program recommendation, but also recommendations we’ve had from over the years and looking at the research on adolescents, their sleep patterns and what they need, the recommendations and the research shows that teenagers do better because of their clock; they stay up later and they get up later. They do better if their school time is later. We are looking at that and trying to incorporate that, that we would bump back the high school day, that they’d start later and (buses would) take elementary (school) first and (then) pick up high school (and middle school after).