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Why School Should Start Later Essay

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It is five fifty in the morning; your alarm goes off. You try to ignore it, but it keeps making that annoying beeping sound. So, you open your eyes, get up and look out the window, and it’s pitch black. You want to go back to sleep, but you have catch the bus in less than twenty minutes. You would not mind waking up at five in the morning if your math teacher did not give you so much homework. In this paper, we will go over the pros and cons on why school should or should not start later in the morning. School starting at a later time is a pro because it has been proven that when students get at least ten hours of sleep or, get a later start to the day, test scores go up and, so does their overall comprehension. Studies show that being sleepy …show more content…

At its peak, the combination of these two biological changes leads to a loss of two to three hours sleep every school day. Thus, a 07:00 alarm call for older adolescents is the equivalent of a 04:30 start for a teacher in their 50s. Failure to adjust education timetables to this biological change leads to systematic, chronic and unrecoverable sleep loss. This level of sleep loss causes impairment to physiological, metabolic and psychological health in adolescents while they are undergoing other major physical and neurological changes." High schools in the U.S starts at 8 a.m. if not earlier. Considering commute and morning preparations, students have risen before dawn to spend six to eight hours of dealing with academic and other school activities. The National Sleep Foundation recommends at least nine hours of sleep for teens, but they get much less than that because they are required to wake up early on school days. (Master of Arts and Teaching ).
My high school starts at 7:45 often I wake up tired, and I get home drained from the day. Plus if students have afternoon practice that's another weight on their shoulders.
Teenagers need at least 8.5 to 9.25 hours of sleep based on their biological

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