Why School Should Start Later

One the biggest issues at Mclane is tardies in the morning, school starting too early, lack of effort and bad grades. Our school has a lot of tardies every day in the morning because school starts too early but if we started late, the numbers of tardies will decrease instantly. Every student will be on time instead of being late because they have more than enough time to get ready. It is proven teenagers are not ready to learn until 11am and their brain isn't ready to function. Students will have more than enough time to do their homework, esspecially for ap students, which will lead to better grades. Another reason is that we will have more time to eat breakfeast and it is proven by doctors that breakfeast is the most important meal of the

And this causes them to miss most of the class work. The time that is best to start school late is around 9-10 o'clock because as teenagers we need at least 9-10 hours of sleep and most teenagers don’t go to sleep until 11 to 2 in the morning because they are on their phones which makes them get 6-7 hours of sleep. Studies shows that students who get 6-7 hours perform poorly when they don’t have enough sleep and 33 percent of students fall asleep in class because not enough rest but if we started school late, they will be able to get 9 hours of sleep and it is proven wide awake kids will most likely be successful in

Some kids just want to go home right after school and not stay after school, so starting school late will make them stay a little later than they are used to. Others have sports right after school so it might not give them time to go to practice and they might be getting home late. And the kids that stayed up on their phones might stay up even later because they know they are starting school late in the morning. What they don’t know is how much sleep they will get and when they get home late, they still have couple hours to do homework since school is starting late. The kids staying up late know how much sleep they really need and it is proven that teenagers usually sleep around 11pm which means they would still get 9 hours of sleep. Teachers would also have enough time to sleep and grade more students work. It benefits everyone. 43% of public high schools start before 8 am and 57% of public high school start after 8 am. Proven most schools should start later in the