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Persuasive Essay On Starting School Start

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The question, when should school start has become a very controversial topic over the course of the last few years. Many schools are considering changing school start times to a later time, or have already implemented later start times in middle and high schools. Parents, students, and educators have had mixed responses toward this change. Students are coming to school sleep deprived, and many people feel the answer to this is changing the schedules. Starting school later is not beneficial because many students will not be receiving any extra sleep and this change would only complicate schedules for sports and parents.
Starting school later will affect many things starting with schedules for parents. The mornings are already hectic enough with just trying to get ready before school, so is it really necessary to make that even worse by having commuters, high school students driving themselves to school, and the buses picking up students all at the same time? An athlete from Kansas claims that, “The extra wave of commuters will shift traffic patterns; working parents will need to scramble to find morning childcare; and next thing you know, the whole town has to adjust. School districts shouldn’t have that kind of power over the community.” (http://choices.scholastic.com). Adding more chaos to the mornings is not going to help Pushing back the start time will just make your morning more stressful. Not only will later starts affect the mornings, but students and teachers in the elementary schools are now being adversely affected. Elementary students now have to get up earlier, and so do their parents. Younger kids are less independent and cannot get themselves up and on the bus, which means their parents have to wake up and then get them on the bus. Teachers are finding that more kids are tardy. “Elementary teachers from the two schools that experienced a two-hour change in start time, moving from 9:40 to 7:40, reported that the earlier start had some negative impact on student attendance/tardies, especially at the start of the school year.” according to (http://www.spps.org). If more students are tardy and absent when they are young then how are they supposed to understand the basic building blocks for

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