Sometimes, The Early Bird Doesn't Catch The Worm

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Sometimes the Early Bird Doesn’t Catch the Worm… Although some may worry about pushing the school day back to a later start might get in the way of after-school sports and jobs, I believe school should start later in the morning. First, it will improve students’ academic performance. Second, it will enhance students’ to stay alert and to focus in class. Lastly, it will help reduce tardiness and drop-out rates. Today, teens are scientifically proven for sleeping in late and being particularly challenging to wake up. Missing sleep can confirm disastrous for any person’s health. Starting out on losing sleep at an early age could have serious consequences. I believe that pushing back the school day by two hours, or so, will have a positive effect on students’ academic performance in school. During our generation, there have been countless teens who have been finding themselves with the lack of sleep. The intervention study showed that delaying school start time had the effect of increasing sleep duration and decreasing daytime sleepiness (Joseph A. Buckhalt). In other words, teens sleep patterns can have an overpowering outcome, in either way, for the education of all students. If school days were pushed back to reasonable times, an expansion of kids would be more attentive. Their grades would slip as much as today’s because they’d be more concentrated on what is to be going on in class, and what needs to be done instead of sleepy; about to fall over in their chair. New evidence suggests that a later start to the school day could have all sorts of benefits, like better grades and fewer car crashes (Gonchar, 2014). Not only would it help students’ to have higher ranks, but it would also help enhance the moods of many. Missing slee... ... middle of paper ... ...reclude these such things from happening. It would even cut students’ from sleeping in late. Moving high school start times fifty minutes later, from 7:25 A.M. to 8:15 A.M. would be good for most students’ so they are still able to wake up on time, eat breakfast, and get ready without feeling rushed. The impact of later start times on school performance including reduced trauncy, absenteeism, and increased overall academic achievement is approximately double in economically disadvantaged students (Start School Later Movement). It isn’t fair to expect students’ to be at school, ready to learn, when the internal working of their bodies tells them they should not be up yet. That’s why I believe schools should consider starting later in the morning so it will improve academic performance, it will help enhance alertness, and lastly, reduce tardniess, and drop-out rates.

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