School Should Start Later Almost every day high school students are waking up around six o’clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier than that. Nearly every morning students are waking up without adequate sleep. If sleep is one of the most essential needs of the body in order to grow and develop, shouldn’t we be more aware of how much it affects students everyday performance? The ways in which students are affected by sleep-deprivation is precisely why school needs to start…

society most teens don’t like going to school that early in the morning. To have to wake up so early when they only get about seven hours of sleep, to have students be coming into school at 7:30AM or maybe even earlier in some other schools, is not right. Students need to have time at night to get work done, not only schoolwork but also non-schoolwork. Needless to say, the school schedule for high school students needs to be changed and be made where they go in later. That way they get their work done…

Against later start time for school Many people think that schools shouldn’t start schools later. It does not help teens at all. Starting school later that means it will affect all sports. Many parent aren’t sold on later school start times for teens. Sleeping in probably sounds like a no brainer to most teenagers, but their parents aren’t so sure that it’s worth starting school later to get the extra shut-eye. If we start school later than kids will have to start school earlier and…

attendance list, one student gives a deadpan stare, mouth slightly agape and eyes drooping, while another student can’t beat the fatigue and sleeps with his head on his desk as a trickle of drool escapes his mouth. While this comic scene takes place on a Hollywood set, it is not far removed from many classroom situations across the country as Aarthi Belani, a high school student from Minnesota, notes about the 7:20 a.m. chemistry class she took her junior year. “It was an ungodly hour to be studying…

doesn’t include the laziness of students, and there is no reason for school not to have a later start. So, schools should start later in the day. Reason 1: Many students are not getting enough sleep. In especially middle schools and high school, teenagers are sleep deprived. At the age when they need it the most, teens are not getting enough hours of rest because of how early their school starts. It is very unreasonable that school for teenagers starts early when they need a great amount of sleep…

The Westside High School bell rings at eight twenty, marking the beginning of the school day for the thousands of young teenagers ranging from thirteen to eighteen, and the students begin the day with their classes. Westside High School has adapted a school policy called Bell to Bell Instruction. This type of instruction means that starting with the bell at the beginning of class, students are taught material with no break. Instruction only ends once the bell marking the end of class is rung. Students…

education of Americans continues to fail in comparison to other countries, it is imperative that we don’t further weaken our school day by making school start later. This is important to take into consideration when deciding school start times, as well as many other facts. District officials nationwide have been discussing or even implementing a later start time in their schools. However, this will just cause more problems and hurt the students and everybody else concerned more than help them. Children…

Later School Start Times Everyone has always hated getting up super early to go to school. As children get older they move to different schools, from elementary to middle to high school, and the start times get earlier. In elementary school it was never a problem getting up but getting older, it always got harder to get up and the days were always longer. Schools start so early in the morning that it is hard to focus and students tend to miss more of their earlier classes and attend all of their…

United States of America, middle and high schools start as early as 7:00 am, requiring teenagers to rise at least at 6:30 in order to make it to class. As a nation, we can only view this as a monstrosity. In this essay, I will be going over three areas of analysis: one, why early start times for middle and high school create situations not in the interest of learning, two, why a later commencement time would have substantial benefits, and three, why said benefits would outweigh the disadvantages. First…

Starting a Life in a Boarding School Life at a boarding school offers many positive experiences. Leaving for boarding school in grade 7 was one of the hardest moments of my life. It was terrifying leaving home, and everything that provided me with the comfort and warmth, and to go somewhere where I knew no one. I was going to start from scratch with no friends and nobody I knew. It was going to be a challenge for me, and I realized quickly that I had mixed feelings for going away to school. I tried…