I am writing to support the Board of Education budget as proposed which includes a change for healthy school start times for all our children.
I am the mother of four children, a 15-year-old New Canaan High School freshman, an 11-year-old in 5th grade at Saxe, a 5-year-old in kindergarten at South and a 3-year-old enjoying another year at home with me. I will be in the New Canaan public school system for 14 more years.
This past fall I transitioned three children to three new schools. Like many of us, I am regularly dealing with changes to schedules; having children in quarantine, attending school in person, remotely, morning kindergarten, hybrid 2-day a week schedule, hybrid 75% schedule, every other Wednesday, half day Wednesdays, it has been quite the year for all of us. I actually say that last sentence with a big smile on my face, because, thanks to [Superintendent of Schools] Dr. [Bryan] Luizzi, my children have enjoyed a significant amount of in-person full time learnin