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Benefits Of Student Retention Rates

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A school is an institution dedicated to teaching students under the general direction of the school and its teachers, yet in recent years this has been far from the case. School districts during the past few years have drawn back its start times, resulted in deteriorating situations that at times have become disasterous. Students are getting less and less sleep during the course of their lives, from elementary school to middle school and worst into high school. During these times sleep is essential, and schools are incredibly eager to see it go away. While a change from our current system of early school start times might seem unfavorable for many reasons, in the long run these concerns would fall away as student retention rates would increase leading to more knowledgeable well rounded students, biological and behavioral risk factors would decrease significantly, and students overall health would take a significant betterment leading to healthier students, something that all sides want. While some might argue that the financial burden of such a change might outpower all the profit that it may cause, in reality the benefit is childrens health something that all sides of the argument strive to achieve.
Student retention rates have been recorded to steadily increase when the recommended 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep was reached, yet school fight aggressively against this using not words but instead using actions, by not permitting students to change the school system to benefit their

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