Earlier 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 later classes. Schools everywhere should start later because it would benefit the students and teachers.

Most students when the wake up feel drowsy or tired because they have to go to school before 8:00 am. Schools should have later start times for many reason some include that they just need more sleep and that if they do not get enough sleep it could be dangerous.

Almost 10% of U.S. high schools start before 7:30 a.m. Over 20% of middle schools start class at 7:45 a.m. or earlier. This is leaving students everywhere overwhelmed and tired. This can lead to tremendous effects on their health and grades. Research shows that only do later start times improve those things, but ends up increasing the school's yearly income in the long run. For these reasons, schools should make their hours later because it can affect students grades and health in a positive way.

The school day should start later in order improve students’ mental health. Survey results have consistently indicated that middle level and high school students who start school at 7:15 a.m. or earlier obtain less total sleep on school nights due to earlier rise times in comparison to students at later-starting schools. () This is just the beginning of the negative impacts that early start times have on students. By starting school at a later time, students’ brains will function better, their grades and learning increases, and will be more mentally stable.

Redondo Beach Unified school district should implement that all schools in the district need start an hour later. 60% of children under the age of 18 complained to their parents about being tired, and 15% said they fell asleep during the school year. Across our country, Evidence has shown that teenagers are indeed seriously sleep deprived, affecting their school work.

My argument is about why schools should start later. I think schools should start later because students will be more focused and be able to get better sleep. The administration is against this because they think we should be in school longer but this also helps teachers because students won’t fall asleep in class. The administration is complaining that the schools test scores are low but maybe it’s because not everyone gets enough sleep. It would help teachers a lot because not only will you have enough sleep but you’ll also have energy and make it through the day.

It has come to my attention that kids are going to school tired therefore looking like zombies. A good reason for this is that they are waking up so early for school. These reasons listed are why students should start school a little later in the morning. School should start later since students are not getting enough sleep, having health issues, consequently are getting severe and students are being tardy due to lack of sleep.

Opinions about schools starting time differ all over the United States. Many districts around the United States are trying to start a movement to have school start later than they usually do. 70 districts across the nation are going to start at 8:45. If this happens, it can change the schedules of a big amount of students tremendously. In the article on Newsela, facts are stated about how lots of schools use scientists advice for when they should start school. Based on the article titled, ¨More zzz’s can lead to more A’s: Seattle Schools Move Start Time for Teens¨, one believes that Beaumont High School should not change the start time to begin class later due to transportation,sports’ schedules, and the late dismissal.

The students of this generation appear to be a bunch of lazy, depressed, unenergetic zombies, but is this entirely their fault? After a considerable amount of investigating it appears as if their lack of energy could be due to sleep deprivation resulting from early school start times. When later school times have been compared to those schools that start earlier, there are significant changes in the behaviors and results that students emit in a school environment. Schools should have a later start time that is better suited to the biological needs of adolescents as a way to aid them in achieving a higher quality education.

Should we make school start times longer? I think we should because 80% of U.S schools start before 8:30am and that's not an efficient time.Parents also need to drop off their kids early in the morning and still need to work until 9pm (that's late hours).That shows that parents and also the students aren't getting enough sleep to get through their day.

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.

Have you ever thought about what would happen if School start times were changed? In this essay i will point out three major reasons changing the start time to a latter time is a bad idea. Even though seattle doesn't think it is a bad idea i think it is. These next few paragraphs are going to explain why later start times are not better because it will give students less time to be at home, parents will have to rethink how they are getting their child to school, and sport schedules will be messed up.

Does the school day start too early? I personally believe it does because students should get more rest, so they can be more focused and ready to learn students have sports and games, after school. Some students also have to work late nights.

" Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," said Ben Franklin. While most experts believe that a teen should get 9 hours of sleep, only 15% get that much sleep. With schools starting as early as 7:00 a.m (School Start Time and Sleep), most teenagers are only getting 7 hours of sleep (Sleep in Adolescents (13-18 Years)). In fact, " a recent poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation found that 60% of children under the age of 18 complained of being tired during the day, according to their parents, and 15% said they fell asleep at school during the year" (School Start Time and Sleep). When entering school, many teenagers look like zombies with their eyes half shut and posture sagging. This lack of sleep causes many problems, both physically and mentally. Therefore, in order to help students throughout the nation, school times should be changed and started later.

Having high school students implementing electronics curfew can only help so much, it is our job as a society to address the issues surrounding early high school start time and the damages it is causing to the student’s body. Through reading multiple research papers, all of the scientists agree that the most effective way for high school students to actually receive sufficient amount of sleep is to push the currently early start time backwards. To do this, we have to raise the awareness of this problem to the national level, and actually present to the public why early school time is bad for high school students and the numerous side-effects of being sleep deprived, such as anxiety depression and substance abuse. We have to correct the common misconception of teenagers likes sleeping in because they like being lazy. The easiest solution to basically all of the problems lack of sleep has caused to high school student is to have a bill passed and making 9-10 AM as the earliest start time allowed. Having this bill passed might sound easy, but in reality, it is actually not that simple. The issue doesn’t lie within the bill, but what comes after. The way our society operates as we know it would need to change. The first thing that would be affected are when parents go to work. While a lot of American teenagers drive to school, the majority is still taking the bus or being dropped off by their parents. In order for the parents to drop their kids off at school, jobs have to start