Sadie Cole
October 31, 2017
Class Period: 3
Changing School Schedules: A Benefit or a Drawback?
Have you ever wondered why schools start so early? When thinking about it, students are at school for an average of 9 hours a day. For many students, before school consists of getting ready for the day, eating breakfast, and finishing up last minute homework. After school some activities may include doing clubs and sports, working on homework, spending time with family and friends, and eating dinner. Where does the sleep schedule fit in? Many schools have a new proposal allowing all middle and high schoolers to begin school at or around 9 a.m. and then not ending until almost 5. You might think that starting school later would give plenty of room
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Teachers are a big part of the school and a student’s success. If you move the schedules to a later time, the teachers will still be at school in a later time. If you think about it, teachers go to school before the students and stay much later than the students. Moving the schedules for the teachers would just make it difficult on them and their families and they would have longer days. They would not get home until at earliest around five which is the latest most of the teachers get home with their current schedules. With the schedule change it would be the earliest most teachers would be getting home not to take into account distance to their houses, traffic, and after school meetings/ activities. Some activities can include the running of a club, coaching sports, and other afterschool activities. With the traffic most of the teachers who live in the big cities are going to hit evening rush hour which makes their commute even longer. Therefore, the teachers would not get home until much later due to traffic. Not even to mention specialists and other teachers that work in K-8 schools or K-12 schools and need to with with all of the students. These teachers would be at the school teaching from as early as 8 to as late as 5. That is too long of a day for these teachers. Especially, because many of these teachers do other things after school like make student plans or tutor. This makes it really difficult for these teachers to hang out with their own families and have their own life outside of work. The teachers would be able to come in later because of the new schedules so their hours would be same. You may see this as the teachers still working the same amount of hours but they still have to go home and grade papers, eat, spend time with their families, and the most important one, sleep. The whole point of allowing school start times to be later is sleep schedules. Giving the
Waking up early at 6:00 A.M in the morning isn’t the funniest thing to do. The times on when school starts should be changed to a later time. Schools should change start times to later there is even factual evidence that this is true. In the article ‘The Teen Who Woke Up Her School’ by Jane Bianchi wrote about a teen named Jilly Dos Santos who put hard work into petitions and powerpoints to show how more sleep can better not only her but other people on school work and sports. People need more sleep to function and get through the day and to be more alert about things around them.Evidence from scientist and from teens show that people work better when they have more energy and got a good night's rest and when students don’t they sometimes start
Many people argue that starting schools later will let students get more sleep and align with the students sleep cycles. But they do not factor in that students will just stay up later at night because they know that they do not have to get up as early in the morning. This will just leave students with less sleep than before. Also students will be up later finishing homework and socializing on their phones with friends. Although schools will now have been adjusted to fit with students sleep cycles, that does not mean that the students will actually
Sleep! That wonderful, blissful void between last night and this morning. Sleep is one of the most basic functions of life. Nearly all creatures must sleep in order to properly carry out tasks; teenagers are no exception. The typical teenager needs an average of nine to ten hours of sleep a night in order for their brains to be capable of working at full capacity. School starts so early that they infringe upon that basic necessity. In order for teens to receive an adequate amount of sleep, it is mandatory to enact later start times for high schools across the country.
Many students will say if school started later they will show significant improvements in school performance. In the article “5 Pons and Cons of Later school start times” it’s states that If school started later students would make significant improvements in school performance. Many School districts that experimented with later start times found that students coped with academic workloads much better. Also a study on University of Minnesota found that grades, test scores and overall performance in core subjects advanced significantly when school start times were switched to later hours. So if school districts experimented with later start times and it helped students coped with academic workloads then why aren't we doing later start times.
One drawback to later start times is the fact that school would end later. Since schools that start later still have the same number of hours in a day, they would in turn end later in the afternoon. This can cause problems for after school activities, and also homework after school. Some students families depend on the money earned from working after school jobs. If the school they were attending got out later, they would have less time after school to work these jobs, so they would be unable to make the money they need to support their families (“Eight Major Obstacles to Delaying School Start Times”). In addition, any after school clubs or activities would end later after school, causing those involved to stay up later at
Kids and teen everywhere are rushed, stressed, and not doing as well in school because they aren't getting the right amount of sleep. About 40% of american high schools start classes before 8:00 am and more than 20% of middle schools start at 7:45 am or earlier. School start times should be later because teens need sleep and it improves their overall academic grades.
If school started later, kids wouldn’t be so tired in the morning. School starting later is very beneficial because kids wouldn’t sleep so much in class. Students need a total of 8-10 hours of sleep on school days to be awake in the morning. 33% of teens report falling asleep in class every day. 73% of high school students get fewer than 8 hours of sleep on school nights, with 46% of middle school students getting barely 7 hours of sleep.
When it comes to middle and high schools, they tend to start early, not generally knowing why the kids are tired. Only 15% of schools in America start at 8:30 or later, and it’s affecting schools across the country. Early school start times plague the students with low grades, sleep deprivation, and lower social skills. A solution to all of those factors would be to make the school start time later than 8:00. Middle school start times should be later because grades will be better, more time to wake up, and better social skills.
Have you ever woken up and still felt unbelievably tired? Ever needed an extra hour or two of sleep? Scientists have proven that kids who sleep more can retain more information. More sleep could easily be achieved if we would delay school start times. Schools that have done this have shown higher test grades. Schools should have later start times because parents have trouble getting their children up, kids need a lot more sleep than they are getting, and there would be a lowered risk of illnesses.
Everyone knows it's going to a be a long day when they're running low on sleep. One night of inadequate sleep can be easily overcome, but many teenagers are dealing with tiredness daily. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: the Story of Success, states "Children, we like to believe, should have time to play and dream and sleep" (530). Gladwell presents the idea that adolescents need more time allotted into their schedules for plenty of sleep as well as some fun. However, most teens have an abundance of schoolwork and extracurricular activities making this is impossible. Even though it may not be easy, delaying school start times would be a tremendous step to help America's teens. Today's high school students in the United States are facing exhaustion, low grades, and poor health due to early school start times.
Kids alaways complain about the bus arriving late and that is because the drivers don't have enough sleep and wake up way too early. If the school changes it's schedule the bus driver will have a good rest and be at the bus stop on time. Students even complain that the teacher don't usually teach well some days or even don't grade tests fast enough and that is because they need their sleep and if you change the school schedule the teachers will have more than enough time to grade very student's test and will be well rested to teach in school better.
Kids need at least 9 hours of sleep per night and they’re not getting that. Studies show that kids get only about 7½-8½ hours of sleep per night. An article called Sleep In Adolescents states that middle schoolers and young adolescents don’t get enough sleep because puberty changes changes their sleeping schedules, they have to get up too early for school, and homework and after-school activities keep them up later. Clearly school needs to start later because kids are not getting enough sleep.
CDC reported that “when teens start school at 8:30 a.m. or later, they are able to get the recommended amount of sleep on school nights, which is eight and a half to nine and a half hours.” I totally agree with the CDC, if schools should begin around 8;30 a.m. or later nationwide there is a guarantee of better academic performance among students. After all, studies show that majority of U.S high school student did not meet CDC 9-10 sleeping hours recommendation (McKibben 1). It benefit student performance at school overall if school starting time is shift, research conducted reported that well known fact that many kids are tired in the day at school and 15 percent fell asleep during the
For one thing, many people think that if the time school started was pushed back, would students not just go to bed later as well? One New York Times article contradicts this theory. In the article, it is reported, “Six studies, two of which were randomized controlled trials, showed that delaying the start of school from 25 to 60 minutes corresponded with increased sleep time of 25 to 77 minutes per week night. In other words, when students were allowed to sleep later in the morning, they still went to bed at the same time, and got more sleep” (Carroll). While most students may get more sleep, many people are also concerned with transportation.
I strongly disagree with Dickenson county school board’s plan to extend the school hour by one and a half hours in the day. The reasons I disagree are the students and staff have too much weight on our shoulders, also some students have to wake up at five o'clock in the morning and then they get on the bus at five thirty, and the school time is too long as it is. If the horrible idea of extending the school hours by one hour and a half is passed the children will be more exhausted after the day. There would be students that would get home after dark and go to school before daylight. Furthermore if they had to get on the bus before dawn they would be getting up a whole lot earlier.