As of this year, Saugus decided to change the day late start is on, changing it from Wednesday to Monday instead. Having a late start on a Monday is nice because after a long fun weekend you get to sleep in. This makes Mondays not as miserable as before. On the other hand, it doesn’t break up the block schedule like it did last year.
Having a late start on Wednesday breaks up your week of having such long classes all day. It gives you a day to catch up on your sleep from the first hard days of the week. It also would remind me that Friday was coming and it was almost the weekend which gave me motivation to power through the rest of the week!
When talking about this to Saugus students, I took a poll on if people like late start Mondays better or Wednesdays, most people liked both and didn’t really have a problem with the change, but liked having it on Wednesdays to break up the week. Some said they like Mondays too because they can stay out longer on the weekend and not be so tired on Monday and it will make the start of their week way more enjoyable. When talking to David Alexander a student here at Saugus he said, “I liked late start Wednesdays better it broke up the week for me.”
One thing i think the school could change about late start mondays is the time school starts. Once block schedule was chose as our schedule late start was made earlier. I think 9:19 is just an odd number for school to start, and its not much of a late start its not even an hour later than regular days! I think a fair time could be at least 9:30 because its an hour later than regular school days and its earlier than it used to be in previous years!
In my opinion, I liked the late start Wednesdays better because it gave me a break from block schedule and it also was something to look forward too at the start of the week. However, I’m looking forward being able to not be exhausted on Mondays and having a better Mondays!