Changing School Schedules

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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 …show more content…

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

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