Why We Should School Start Later

It is a well known fact that teenagers in general need more sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation: “[teenage sleep] is as important as the air you breathe, the water you drink and the food you eat. It can even help you to eat better and manage stress of being a teen.” When schools start as early as 7 o’clock, it puts students health at risk. Adolescents already have a natural shift in their internal body clock, or circadian rhythm when it comes to sleep. Puberty allows this to happen, causing a “sleep phase delay” of about two hours. When teens can't fall asleep until late and school starts so early, they aren't getting nearly enough sleep. Lack of such, according to CDC, makes the individual

If you want better grades and more sleep, school should start later. Many schools are considering early start times. In fact, at least three schools in Maine are considering starting school later. Middle and high schools should start later because students and parents would be less tired and because children would be able to play outside when the sun is out.

The primary reason for attending school is for adolescents to get an education in hopes of getting a good job.  Attendance, test scores, and GPA’s all play an important role in a student’s success in school, and if they can all be improved by pushing the start time back, then this issue should be pushed further.  The root problem of students not performing to their full potential has to do with the inability to focus from drowsiness in class due to the lack of sleep they are getting.  To support this point, Carskadon, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior, and his team, “found that students showed up for morning classes seriously sleep-deprived and that the 7:20 a.m. start time required them to be awake during hours that ran contrary to their internal clocks” (Richmond).  In other words, Carskadon believes that current high school start times go against teens’ natural sleep patterns, making them be awake at a time where their bodies aren’t ready to get up yet.  This causes concentration issues making paying attention in class harder, and kids not getting the best grades they can.  Also, sleep won’t get any

Have you ever been really tired when you wake up for school in the morning? Sleep is very important to all teens, or it should be. Young adults should have 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep every night, according to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), in Sarah McKibben’s article “Wake Up Calls”. Unfortunately, two-thirds of teens are getting less than 7 hours of sleep each night, according to the NSF’s chart. This is causing a large number of schools and scientists to think that schools should start later in the morning. I fiercely disagree with this. Schools should not start later because starting later for high schools would cause too many negative consequences.

School days should start later so that kids and teens could get more sleep. It is a fact that teens on average get about 5-6 hours of sleep. Teens should get about 7-9. If we gave kids another hour or hour and a half then kids would do better with grades and not fall asleep in class. "Everybody learns better when they’re awake.”

Do you think your student isn’t getting enough sleep? Is your student always dragging in the morning before school? Well there is a simple cost-effective solution, moving the start time! School should start at a later time to help teens get the sleep that their growing body needs, and to help academic performances.

Why School Should Start At A Later Time Would you like to get enough sleep, and go to school after 8:00? I don’t know about you, but I would love to go to school at a later time! As we are at school some students aren’t even awake. Students should get enough sleep for school the next day so schools should start at a later time. Here are some reasons why school should start later in the morning.

Teenagers are notorious for staying up late. And late nights coupled with early-morning high school start times means kids are losing a great deal of valuable sleep. Sleep experts now know that teenagers need, in fact, more sleep than adults and children. Sleep studies have found, and Dr. Maas concludes that “adolescents need a minimum of 9 hours and 15 minutes of sleep each night to be fully alert during the day” (Crombie 2). Statistics show, however, that few young people even come close to getting their required amount of sleep, with only 15 percent sleeping 8 ½ hours or more during the week (Finger 2). The majority of America’s teenagers, according to a study released by Stanford University, get a scant 6 ½ hours of sleep on school nights (“Adolescent Sleep” 2). With such inadequate sleep, it is no wonder that teenagers slump through the school day; they are legitimately and desperately sleep deprived. The blame for teens’ sleep deprivation, however, often falls on their own weary

Pushing back start times for school: a topic that has been debated on all across the nation for years, attempting to figure out a compromise so that teenagers are able to get enough sleep and still keep daily lives and costs consistent. Plenty of teachers and school board members have said yes to pushing back start times- while others say no. Do these school staff members recognize the consequences that will heavily effect students by starting the school day off too early? Raegan Ball from Evansville unsurprisingly states that he never gets enough sleep while he deals with academics, musical theater, a job, and homework. With everything he has to juggle throughout a typical day, he doesn’t have enough time put aside for well-deserved sleep.

One of the reasons that school should be started later is because it does not give growing teens enough time to sleep. Sleep researcher, Wendy Troxel, who spoke on TED, says that high school aged kids’ sleep cycles do no start until 11 p.m and do not end until 8 a.m. This means that whenever students’ alarms go off from anywhere around 5-7:30 a.m, it simply does not

Adolescents don’t choose to stay up late; they do know the consequences of being tired the next day. “The starting time of school puts limits on the time available for sleep, this is a nonnegotiable limit established largely without concern

Among adolescents and teenagers lack of sleep has become an epidemic. Teenagers believe that sleep is expendable when, in reality, it is extremely important for teens to receive sufficient sleep. Alexandra Robbins argues in her book, The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids, that teenagers are willing to sacrifice sleep for success and that this way of thinking is harmful to adolescent development. It is because of this way of thinking and the negative effect it has, that the start time of high schools should be pushed back. Through evidence provided by Robbins and an outside source, it can be asserted that the start time of high schools should be pushed back.

At Sheldon High School in Elk Grove, California, the time students are expected to be in class, or the start time, is 7:45. With this start time, a junior named Barbara needs to wake up around 6:00 to get ready in time to get a ride, but unfortunately, Barbara slept through her alarm and and actually woke up at 7:00. You see, Barbara did not get enough sleep the night before as she was tossing and turning due to the fact that she just could not fall asleep. Now in the morning, she is rushing get her clothes on and has barely any time to brush her teeth. Her mother yells at her to hurry into the car so she can go to school where she will be struggling to stay awake. “Teens spend a great portion of each day in school; however, they are unable to maximize the learning opportunities afforded by the education system” (Backgrounder). Nearly 50% of high schools start earlier than 8:00, meaning teens are waking up at much earlier time than their bodies are meant to (Why Change). Because of this, students are not being able to reach their full potential in school. How could one expect a child to thrive when they are getting an insufficient amount of sleep? Countless sources show data proving that there are multiple benefits of starting school later in the day; three of these are a teenager’s lack of melatonin, their behavior and attitude, and different transportation methods.

Sleep deprivation is an issue faced by many students in today’s age. Controversy has been produced due to the question: should school start later in the day? Many people argue that if school started later then there would not be enough time in the day for extracurricular activities, sports, or jobs. On the other hand, students who have to wake up earlier for school face many health problems. Grades and attentiveness are affected by the amount of sleep a person gains as well as the overall happiness of the students.

    Sleep deprivation is an issue faced by many students in today’s age. Controversy has been produced due to the question: should school start times be later in the day? Many people argue that if school started later then there would not be enough time later in the day for extracurricular activities, sports, or jobs. On the other hand, students who have to wake up earlier for school face many health problems. Grades and attentiveness are affected by the amount of sleep a person gains, and overall happiness can be effected.