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Persuasive Essay On Why School Should Start Later

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Students work a full time job that starts at eight and ends at a quarter past two. That job is called school. Kids have loads of homework, sports and other extracurriculars and are going to bed late. Since most schools start at about half past seven to eight o’clock kids are not getting the nine hours of sleep that they should. Teens losing their sleep affects more than just us being tired. Although schools start earlier now the benefits of starting school later include health improvements, increase performance in and out of the classroom and increases the morale of the students.

There are various health benefits that come from sleeping more and starting school later. The health benefits that come from a later start time includes improved alertness and attention, stronger immune system and reduce the number of car accidents. Kids are more alert and pay more attention when kids sleep more says CTV News. More sleep will also result in less daydreaming for kids as they will be well rested. Sleeping strengthens your immune system so why wouldn’t we want more sleep for our children. “Certain disease-fighting substances are released or created while we sleep,” (Valley Sleep Center.org) so starting school later would allow students to have a stronger immune system and thus be more healthy. Also it has been proven “that more sleep causes a reduction of car accidents.” There was a study that had two different Virginia counties start school at different times and compared the

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