>>OTOH, my junior high was on shifts. The morning shift (which was all the 7th grades and the 8th graders who were going to go to a high school for 9th grade) started at 7 and finished at noon.
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>Not much provision there for parents being at work
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Yeah, well, this was the late 60's when most moms were at home. Besides that, it was junior high (grades 7-9, ages roughly 12-15, though I was a lot younger), so in theory, these kids could be home on their own.

Tamar