San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) board members voted June 23 to approve a proposal that reversed previous bell time changes, keeping next fall’s bell times unaltered for Point Loma and Ocean Beach schools. SDUSD board members reversed previous proposals altering bell times for nine schools and a newer district-wide 15-minute shift for the upcoming 2009-’10 school year. “This switch was a result of parent input to the school board and superintendent from parents and community members across the district,” Torrey Pines Elementary School reported in a June 26 e-mail. “What they approved was to keep the bell times the same,” said Melissa Hudson, SDUSD confidential administrative assistant to the board. According to Hudson, the board voted to reverse all school bell time changes made, except for one school: the Creative and Performing Media Arts Middle School. This fall, students will begin and end school the same time as last year, Hudson said. In addition to reversing the board’s proposal to alter the 2009-10 bell times, board members included other schools such as Pacific Beach’s Bayview Terrace — among nine schools that had been given altered bell times last February — in the reprieve. The board’s reversal moved Bayview Terrace’s altered bell time from 7:15 a.m. to its original start time 30 minutes later. For more information, visit www.sandi.net.