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Why School Should Start Later Research Paper

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Imagine you get ill after a few days because you don’t get enough sleep for your body. Now stop imagining because this might be happening to people’s bodies need more sleep to have enough energy for the day. That is of why school should start later. One reason that school should start later is because it is unhealthy for children's bodies to go to school that early in the morning. If school starts before 9:00AM children develop chronic sleep deprivation. Chronic sleep deprivation cause sleepiness, clumsiness, and weight loss/gain. Some kids wake up as early as 5-6AM to get ready for school. Some kids might have to walk to school too. Another reason that school should start later is because it helps protect children from drugs. Studies show that schools that start at 8:30AM helped substance abuse and suicide rates drop miraculously.This shows that how early children wake up to go to school determines what the do with there life. School is not just a place where children get their education it is a place where children make the most decisions in life and decide what they want their place in their world to be and the school day needs to start later so children don’t make the bad choice in life. …show more content…

One night they might have to go to basketball, then to a concert, and then to top it off have a family dinner, and by the time they get home it is 10:00 and it is time for them to go to bed. The child either takes a F or has to wake up even earlier to have enough time to do it and get ready for school. There are bad things for both scenarios, the first getting a bad grade and the next, having to wake up earlier which is worse for the child. If the child does not have an alarm clock then the parent has to get up which will lead to the parent having a bad day too. So it is a loss-loss. This why school needs to start later in the

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