I find that starting school at 7 am, horrendous. Children do not need to get up at 5 or 5:30 to catch a bus just to be there at that time. Learning should take precedence and how can a child learn if they are forced to wake at such an ungodly hour just for the convenience of the school?? I would be willing to bet the faculty of the school would prefer to start later as well. Why not take the concern of all the people involved and apply it to make a reasonable compromise??

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the main difference between a dog and man.
-Mark Twain-