Essay On Why School Should Start Later

A sleep study at Brown University shows that most teens do not start to feel tired until around midnight. School starts at 7:30 am, which leaves students with less than seven hours of sleep each night. Studies have shown that when teens suffer from lack of sleep they do not perform as well in school. Most people can agree that later start times can be beneficial for high school students, but it could interfere with household schedules that families have lived with for years. Some administrators disagree with later start times for High Schools, later start times allow students to feel more alert in class, allow for better grades, and allow more time for teens to sleep.

Students feel more alert in class when school starts later in the morning. Waking up feeling bright and active is a great sign that one has gotten plenty of sleep, but needing numerous alarms to wake one up is a warning sign that one does not get enough sleep. This makes going to school, in the prime of the morning, a challenge. When students attend school later in the morning they get more sleep and are far more alert in class. In the article “Should Schools Start Later in the Day?”

Now they start at 8:40. Students' grades are better, there is less tardiness and absenteeism, and students participate more and sleep less in class.” This quote shows again how students get better grades if they go to a school that starts later in the morning. In the aticle “Why you should let your teenager sleep in” ,it says, “In 2009, a study of 3,000 Houston children aged 11 to 17 found that students getting less than six hours of sleep a night were twice as likely to report poor grades upon follow-up a year later.” When students get less than six hours of sleep a night they can have a hard time concentrating and staying focused. This can be a large contributor to them having poor