...School Times Should Start Later It is often said that the early bird gets the worm, but that is not the case for school start times. Many schools across the country are having adolescents wake up at the wee hours of the morning to get ready and go to school. Waking up so early is not always beneficial. Although some people do believe that it is efficient. It may seem that pushing back the school start time will push afterschool extracurricular activities to later in the day or that later school start times will defeat its main purpose- students getting more sleep. School start times should be later because it improves adolescents’ health, students’ will perform better academically, and it can increase the safety of the community. Our bodies...
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...Do you think schools should start later? Normal school times range from 7:00 am to 7:30 am. Which is very early and results in teens not getting enough sleep at night. Most teenagers need more sleep than they get. I think starting schools at 8:30 am is best because teens will get more sleep, they will have improvement in school work, and it will reduce tardiness. I think that school times should be pushed back. Teenagers need about 9 and a half hours of sleep. Schools that start at 7:00 am have students that are always tired and groggy. Waking up early for school causes them to be sleep deprived. Sleep deprivation affects physical and mental performance. Teens are at an important stage of their growth and development and need a healthy amount of sleep. When schools have early start times, that means buses go out as early as 6:00 am. Which results in teens that ride the bus getting up before 6:00 am when schools starts at 7:00 am. If districts change their times to 8:30 am that gives teens way more time to sleep in....
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...the morning. You groan realizing you did not go to sleep until 1:30 a.m. Why do students have to be to school so early? The school day should start later than it does. Students should not have to be to school early because it decreases tardies and absences, reduces the chance of students falling behind and increases productivity. For a while now the average high school start time around the country is 7:40 a.m. At first, researchers believed that by starting school early, students will perform better in school. But, as time went on and technology developed, scientists saw how disastrous it is to students health. Starting school at a later time has become a trend in a lot of high schools across America. Schools are beginning to change their school start time due to a recent study did...
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...stay at school? What if you have to stay for tutorial or sport practice? Even though going to school later seems cool, the time of school is right where it is supposed to be. Later times in school results in tired students and unnecessarily late dismal times. School is scheduled strategically for the wellbeing of students and the staff, so changing the time will have several consequences. Early is on time, and on time is late. With school times being later, students will be more lax and less focused on the lesson. Therefore, school should not be held at a later time. This is necessary because students will be able to have more time after school to complete tasks and do their hobbies. In addition, students who come out of school earlier, are happier than those who have to arrive and stay at school longer. Furthermore, it is scientifically proven that early times have little to no effect on the academics of a student. Finally, while starting school later gives students more time to sleep, it ultimately can cause a large disruption in the schedule of parents and transportation. There are several...
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...Payton arrived home from her school soccer game, she rushed to finish all of the homework she was bombarded with, while not caring about how it turned out. She was shoving her dinner down her mouth as the sun started to set and it kept getting later in the night. She opened her math textbook and started studying for her substantial math test tomorrow which determines the majority of her grade. Now, it was eleven o'clock at night and pitch dark outside. Payton is delighted as she walks up to her bedroom and sees her bed and falls fast asleep after a long drooping day. It is now early in the morning, the bus comes in thirty minutes. Payton hears her mom calling for her to get out of bed, but she is struggling to wake up. Twenty more minutes pass by and her mom calls again and Payton is forced to wake herself up and jump out of bed. The sky is still black, just like it was before Payton went to sleep....
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...mouth, or are you casually driving to school in the front of your mother's shiny new van, ten minutes early? Schools across America have been starting school later, so kids can get in that extra hour of sleep. Other schools have kept the usual schedule of starting class at 8:00 am. The starting time for schools shouldn’t be delayed because of transportation, kids after school activities, and the cost. To start of, the schools transportation system would be affected if the starting time changed. According to the Issaquah School District, “Many districts use the same buses for elementary, middle, and high schools.” Changing start time, and bus schedules, could lead to serious safety issues. Students would either have to be at the bus stop early, or walk home in the dark. This could lead to many problems including a higher risk of student victim crimes. Also if students are getting home late, they will have no time for homework causing them to stay up even later to finish...
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...Schools are trying to push back start times in school for children to get more sleep. If this happens many events could be disrupted. If schools start earlier we will lose money and this will result in many catastrophic events. Should schools take this chance? Schools should not start later, it could disrupt children’s after school schedule and cost a lot of money. Will school’s use this or not. If we started school later it will be costing about 8 million dollars to change the bus schedules. The school board will have to chose if they are going to change the schedule the schools will lose lots of money. In the video “Should schools start later in the morning?” it states that “After dropping the high schoolers the busses turn around drop the middle schoolers and then the elementary schoolers.” This could result in a hectic morning for the busses and if one change happens they might need to buy new busses for the high schoolers and that is what will cost a lot. If the school push the start times back it could result in consequences since they end school later too. I do not think that it would be smart to push the school times back because if we push school times back we are also pushing the end times back. Many children have homework or play...
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... teenagers in high school classes should begin school later in the day, because of having to wake up early and going to sleep early. Also about how the research shows that classes should begin later in the day, and end later in the day. I am in between about the research because there are good things and bad about starting school later in the day and getting out later on in the day. Why I think that it is a good idea to start classes later in the day, because high school students will get more sleep and be prepared for class. Also students would have more time to eat breakfast in the morning. Another reason why I agree because the students will be able to go to sleep easier, and will not...
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...Walking the halls of most American high schools during the morning hours, one might think they are in a zombie apocalypse. Students have bloodshot tired eyes, drinking red bulls and falling asleep in class. Not doing well, especially in first block classes. Over the past two decades The Sleep Foundation has been trying to suggest that high school should switch start times to later (later start times). Teenagers are told they should get around 8 hours of sleep at the minimum but nine to ten hours is ideal (Carroll). Teenagers are going through puberty and require more sleep than the average adult (Troxel). Only one out of ten students are getting the right amount of sleep each night (wake up calls). A typical teen who is sleep deprived are less likely to do well on a quiz or test than a student who is not...
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...It was an early school morning and Sally still has not gotten up. Her bus would leave in approximately an hour. Sally has always had a difficult time waking up in the morning; she would always stay up past her bedtime because she had a difficult time falling asleep at night. This particular time, she stayed up and was worked on her group English project; she only had two hours and thirty minutes of sleep and was expected to wake up at five am. During peoples' teenage years, they experience a change in their internal sleep clock. Teenagers should have their high school classes begin later in the day and end later in the day. High school starting later benefits the students in many ways. First, they will be wide awake in class and ready to learn....
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...hours before having to leave for High School. Sounds like a hallelujah in the darkness! But what if it wasn’t? What if there were too many problems after school gets out? Chesterfield County is considering a time change for High Schools, and I must say that this is a terrible idea. Teens would just stay up later, they cannot take care of their younger siblings, and Specialty Center students or Marching Band students would not get home until five or seven PM. Teens would just have an excuse to stay up even later than they do now. The county may think teens would willingly sleep at the same time they do now, but the majority would just stay up hours later, whether or not they had a choice. Many...
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...Should high school schedules begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m .? People under the age of 16 need at least 10 hours of sleep to function. It also has been scientifically proven that everyone doesn't properly function until 9 o'clock. So getting up at 6 isn't helping anybody, and it just makes students tired, thererfore and they don't concentrate as well. It is not fair on students who are tired. They cannot go to bed earlier because they get about 3-4 hours of homework a day. I think this because 90% of students that wake up at 6a .m or 7a.m are not fully rested, and if you are tired in at school then your brain can not function properly . Doctors say that starting school earlier in the morning prevents children and teenagers from getting a full night’s sleep, which can affect their health, safety and academic performance. Students need enough time to rest since their school day is about 7 hours. Every student sleeps different; most need at least 9-10 hours a night. Let’s say if a student sleeps at 11pm, which most of the students do, he/ or she will wake up at around 5:30 - 6:00, which is not an enough amount of time to sleep for a teen. …...
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...Many students spend so much time at night on their phone or playing video games when they could be studying. Research shows that teenagers experience a change in their internal sleep clocks so waking up early and going to sleep early is hard, how ever, this is not beneficial to these young adults. Schools should not start later because students will have more time to focus on school and necessary activities and be more relaxed throughout the day. Students all need to push themselves to be able to study and focus on schoolwork; that is not possible if they can not get help from the teachers. When I was in middle school we started at eight o'clock which gave me plenty of time to stay after school to talk to teachers and to complete my homework....
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...students gain the most from delayed start times. Making middle and high schoolers start classes before 8:30am threatens children’s health, safety, and academic performance. The start time for middle school students should be later than it is now because it has positive effects on middle school students lives. For one thing, middle and high schoolers need to get more sleep according to npr.org. Making middle and high schoolers start classes before 8:30am threatens their life. With a later start time students can get more sleep, and be more active, and focus better in class. When students get more sleep, their health is better than someone who gets less sleep. If middle and high schoolers get more sleep they would have fewer mood changes, they would also have improved physical health. According...
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...School Should Start Later I think that kids need a break from school, because this generation is full of stress and I think that one of the main reasons is because of school. At least once a week like Fridays we should have a shorter day in school. I have a couple of reasons why we should have a shorter day on Friday and some expert opinion on why we should start later. What CNC says about stress in school. CNC says that Young people experience stress at a high rate, and females more than males, an extensive Associated Press/MTV survey shows. A similar divide exists in terms of fears and safety: Girls and young women are less likely to feel safe in their neighborhoods and in school. The source of stress changes as we get older, the survey...
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