Goal After School Schedules

I believe that the title “ More zzz’s can lead to more A’s: Seattle Schools Move Start Time for Teens”. I believe that Beaumont High School should continue with the start time that the school has. If changed there would be later due to transportation, sports schedules, and the late dismissal. The first quote is “ The Seattle school board voted in November to adopt an 8:45 a.m. start time beginning next year for all high schools and most middle schools. The second quote is “Essentially, across the board, any domain that you look at improved pretty dramatically," said Dr. Judy Owens. The third quote is “The district could not overcome parent complaints about earlier start times for elementary students, which were made necessary because of the new later times for high school students”.

In today's society, most people desire success. They want to attend a respected college, earn exceptional grades, get a wonderful job, and make a lot of money. However, the road to success starts before all of those accomplishments can happen. This journey begins in the classroom. In the classroom, over 25% of all high-school students fall asleep one or more times a week (Mayer-Hohdahl 1). Why does this happen? Schools have sleepy students because of their early start times. "Starting high school early is probably one of the worst things you can do as far as timing the day, as far as adolescents being alert or ready" (Wooley 2). This is a serious problem in high schools all across the nation. Students are tired, and teachers are

Being a High schooler in today's society is hard, especially when you dread getting up at 6 o’clock (or earlier) every morning, and pressing snooze so many times to the point where you have to miss out on breakfast and rush to school. If school started 30 minutes to an hour later every day, it would help students in plenty of ways: alertness, better test scores, and teachers would also enjoy it because students would be more responsive. There would be some extra costs for bussing, though. Hudsonville High school should definitely look into and consider later start times, for it would benefit both the students and teachers.

Typically, people enjoy receiving an extra hour of sleep, even an extra five minutes of sleep. Teens are just one group of people who enjoy sleep. Unfortunately, teens are unable to obtain the correct number of hours per night. Later school start times would be beneficial because the schools would see an impact on attendance, increased school performance, and based on several studies, students would receive the recommended amount of sleep. The psychological effects would greatly outweigh the negative effects caused by an early start time. Benefits of a later start time include, better health, improved grades and teens reaching the recommended amount of sleep per night. Downfalls of starting school later would be transportation issues, coddling

Beep Beep Beep Beep. It is 5:30 A.M, you were up late last night working on an atrocious math assignment; and all you want is to roll over and ignore that you have to go catch the bus at 7:15 A.M. Sometimes, you’re lucky enough to get a ride or drive to school and get an extra five or ten minutes of sleep, while still making it to first hour in time for the pledge of allegiance. Then, by the time second hour rolls around it is only 8:30 A.M. This example shows school start times are affecting the teenagers and preteenagers of our generation. These early school start times are beginning to create a decrease in students grades, concentration levels, tardiness, absences, and the amount of sleep the students are getting each night. For the first time, the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention is urging education policy makers to start middle and high schools later in the morning. The idea is to improve the students sleep and concentration levels during school. As you can see, high schools and middle schools should start later in the morning.

Across America school starts on average, at eight o’clock in the morning. When walking through school hallways full of kids on a typical school morning, one may see sleep deprived and tired students not looking forward to their early morning classes, waiting for the bell to ring to signal them to go to class. Students brains are not at their full potential at eight o’clock in the morning because the brain is not yet fully awake. Starting school at eight o’clock is too early for students’ minds. David A. Sousa confirms, “Teenagers are not getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation affects their ability to store information, increases irritability, and leads to fatigue, which can cause accidents” (Sousa 117). Starting school

“zzzzzzzzz’s” kids aren’t getting enough sleep because of early school start times.We need to make start times later so America is not the most sleep deprived nation in the world. I am going to tell you why school start times should be later and what happens when you are sleep deprived. We need to make school start times later so American kids are not so sleep deprived.

Are you up too late finishing homework, or playing video games late at night? Having a later school start can help students be energetic, safe, and improve in school work. Teenagers nowadays need more sleep than they use to need when they were younger. For these reasons schools should implement a later start time.

National pediatricians say that making middle school and high school students start class before 8:30 a.m. threatens their health, safety, and academic performance. It is important because these teens are not getting the recommended amount of sleep each night. If school start times for teens were later, standardized test scores would be higher and more teens would graduate.

Studies found that an hour difference in school start times led to a 2.32 grade difference. School start times should be later because of student health, academic ability, and students’ moods.

Do you ever find yourself stressing for a certain class and working on homework instead of paying attention for the class you are in? A major solution to this problem that many students at Wellington- Napoleon High School face is to change to the hybrid schedule which would give us more instructional time in core classes, have a variety of classes each week, and finally, have more class options instead of unneeded or extra classes. Around the school you hear many people constantly complaining about the new seven hour schedule and various problems that they are faced with throughout the school day. I feel like there are many simple solutions to all the problems with our high school’s schedule that the staff should really consider.

“I was late to school again.” “I skipped breakfast today.” “I failed the test.” “I missed the assignment because I fell asleep in class.” All those things are said by many students who do not get enough sleep at night. Students who get bad grades, get to school late, and don’t keep up with school assignments, are most likely to become drop-outs. Those drop-out student could have become a, doctor, a lawyer, a veterinarian, or something important. Instead of becoming something important like that, the students decided to be drop-outs; and most of that is because they did not get enough sleep for school. Simply starting school a couple hours later could solve most of those problems.

Have you ever wanted more time? Have you ever wanted to go to your lockers after every class? Have you ever forgotten anything because you don't have enough time in class? THen you agree with us to change th 8th grade schedule to match it with the rest of FCHS. Think about all the things that would be better, there will be no more sore ankles, more time in class to learn, best of all lockers after every class. The 8th grade schedule will not prepare us for the later years in high school, because we can't go to lockers after every other class. We don't have a lot of time between classes and walking a lot. Finally we don't have enough time in class.

Do later start times in school help kids stay focussed throughout the day? Many schools have been asking this question. Some schools have even already changed their start times to be later in the morning. I believe that school start times should stay the same way that they are, because of weaknesses that could be avoided that go with later start times. I will present reasons that the same start times schools use now are fine for students today.

Later High school start times are also linked to teen car accident remarkably dropping. In the article, researchers found that a simple way to reduce car crashes was to “Start the High School Day later”, it was evaluated that in counties where school started early, there were more run-off the road crashes among teens. According to Palus, “They suspect that these might be directly due to sleep deprivation.This reveals that early school start times are a problem and school systems around the country should take a look at the data and consider whether they should delay them. The article also states that “researchers looked at two towns that were pretty much identical-except for the time that teens were expected to arrive at school. In one county,