Reconsidering Early School Start Times for Teen Success

Teens should not have to struggle in school due to the lack of sleep early school start times cause. It is apparent that the lack of sleep is detrimental to the success of students. School all over the country have seen how the lack of sleep impacts the performance of students. Therefore, schools, primarily those that involve teens, should have school start later to help the students, schools, and society.

The relationship between sleep and performance in schools is best described as a domino effect. Teen are already affected by their biology because their circadian rhythms are completely different than those of adults and children. This differences are and were not taken into account when the start of school time was implemented. This different

Schools are impacted in many ways by the time school starts. Having a later start time allows for the students of the campus to make the school itself look good. This is because the better a student feels when coming to class, the more positive the direct impact will be towards the way the school is seen by outsiders. Having students that are focused and ready to learn due to a good night’s sleep reduces the number of discipline issues in the school. It has been shown that students that do not get a well enough rest period come to class with a bad attitude and are more likely to be influenced to misbehave and cause trouble to the teachers.this is touched upon by Juliann Garey in her article What Happens When Teenagers Don’t Get Enough Sleep she states “It’s a radical thought, but what if the behavior we casually dismiss as “teenage angst”—the moodiness, the constant battles, the sleeping all day, the reckless, impulsive and careless behavior—is not, in fact, a normal part of being a teen? Or at least, not to the degree we assume it is. What if instead, we are doing our teenagers a disservice by writing off as “normal” what are in reality the symptoms of chronic and severe sleep deprivation?”(web) This further enforces that sleep cause misbehavior and that by increasing the time of sleep in would decrease this behavior. By Reducing the discipline issues it would allow for