Why School Should Start Later Essay

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Abbey Lewis Mrs. Zimmerman English 10 04 March 2024 It’s Too Early It’s not fun getting up early is it? Teenagers don't get nearly enough sleep because of how early they have to get up for school, getting up at 6am so they can get ready on time to drowsily drive to school (which most of the time kids just skip the first few periods to get an extra hour of sleep). Making attendance and grades worse, an easy way to fix these issues is schools making the start time later. Teenagers only get about six hours of sleep each school night. This is not even close to the recommended eight to nine they are supposed to get. According to Tim Walker's article about why school times should be later, he says, “Students without enough sleep are more likely to …show more content…

This proves that teenagers need later starting times because the amount of sleep they're getting now is not enough for everything the schools expect them to do during the school day. If schools pushed back the start time to even 30 minutes, that could immensely help teens get more sleep and even get them to be more happy throughout the day. Attendance and grades are proven to be worse because of early start times. Getting up usually isn't easy for anyone, especially kids who just want to stay in bed all day. If high schoolers who can drive don't want to go to school, they won't. Example: me today. It’s bad I know, but sometimes you just need those extra thirty minutes. The American Psychological Association says “Increased attendance rates, Decrease in disciplinary action, Decrease in student-involved car accidents, Increase in student GPA, Increase in state assessment scores, Increase in college admissions test scores, Increase in student attention, Decrease in student sleeping during instruction, and Increase in quality of student-family interaction.” These are possible outcomes if schools start just thirty minutes

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