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Kids call it brunch, though it is apt to be spaghetti.
The school day ends at 2 P.M., but most students participate in sports, yearbook, music and other extracurricular activities and stay much later. On three occasions, angry parents have put measures before district voters to push back the high school's starting time. After its state aid was cut in 1990, the school district consolidated bus service, saving several million dollars by selling a third of its buses and laying off drivers. Younger children rode on later buses so they would not have to wait in the dark. Many schools across the nation have been expanding a child's day by starting earlier, not only to balance scarce transportation resources but also to alleviate overcrowding with double sessions and to facilitate after-school athletics.