Schools Should Start Later Essay

School should begin later than 7:50 a.m. because students will be able to get enough sleep if school starts a little later. According to the Nation Sleep Foudations’s “sleep in America poll” eighty percent of teens (ages eleven to seventeen) do not get the recommended amount of nine hours of sleep on school nights. Also according to this poll forty five percent of teens sleep no more than eight hours on school days. Not getting enough sleep can also lead to falling asleep in school. According to

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.

According to NPR.com, Scientists have proven that past a certain age, regardless of technology being in the bedroom, kids and teens can’t fall asleep until their brain lets them, for some children, that time might be after 10:30pm. Schools should have later start times because later start times positively affect standardized test scores, reduces teenage traffic accidents, and students are proven to have a better overall emotional well being, even though parent schedules may be a problem.. Schools should have later start time for middle school students, for the schools and the students well being.

A piece of evidence to support the claim that schools shouldn’t start later is from “Support for sleeping in? Half of parents favor later school start times for teens” by Mental Health Weekly Digest and it states,”... there are real life concerns about how the change may interfere with after-school activities, logistics and school budgets.” This shows that sleeping later would various disadvantages for after-school activities, along with the logics and the amount of money that the school would be spending. Since schools need the money to help fund competitions and other activities, they won’t be able to achieve going to any of those if increasing amounts of money is being used for supporting later school start times.

Typically, people enjoy receiving an extra hour of sleep, even an extra five minutes of sleep. Teens are just one group of people who enjoy sleep. Unfortunately, teens are unable to obtain the correct number of hours per night. Later school start times would be beneficial because the schools would see an impact on attendance, increased school performance, and based on several studies, students would receive the recommended amount of sleep. The psychological effects would greatly outweigh the negative effects caused by an early start time. Benefits of a later start time include, better health, improved grades and teens reaching the recommended amount of sleep per night. Downfalls of starting school later would be transportation issues, coddling

Should School start later? In the article “The Teen Who Woke Up Her School” by Jane Bianchi and “Should School Start Later? By Junior Scholastic, Plus the news report “Should Student Start School Later in the Morning” By ABC News. All are in support of school starting later. This shows that school start to early, schools need to start later and need to be supported by the community!

This particular source from The Atlantic basically just talks about why schools need to start later for middle and high schools and how students’ health and learning are at risk when they start school too early in the morning. The article starts by saying that the centers for disease and prevention are calling for schools to start later in the morning because a lack of sleep has been linked to higher rates of obesity, depression, and motor-vehicle accidents among teens. A study by done by the University of Minnesota proved that a shift in school start time proved beneficial for the students with better attendance, test scores, and academic grades. There was also a decrease in tardiness, substance abuse, and symptoms of depression. Another study done by Brown University found that when students didn’t get the recommended amount of sleep, they became sleep- deprived during class and that the students were “pathologically sleepy.” Even with all of the science behind the fact that schools should start later, schools are often reluctant to do so because school districts don’t have the funding necessary to do so, parents worry that kids will not have time for their extra- curricular activities and or rely on their teens to watch younger siblings. With such opposition, the article proclaims that it is very possible to switch school times without creating too many problems and that school districts just have to be creative in how they implement and plan out the time

With many people come many opinions and sides. For example, school start times have become a big argument. Some believe that everything should stay the same and that students are fine the way things are. Then, there is the other side who believes that changing the school start times to later in the day will help the students tremendously. I am on the side of things should stay the same.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not an early riser and don’t like to get up early. When I get up early I am very slow and sluggish, which then sometimes causes me to rush and get stressed or even sometimes missing the bus. So wouldn’t having later school start times solve all of this? Schools should shift their start times to later in the day because getting more sleep improves performance and test scores, kid’s brains aren’t always awake and ready to work so early in the morning, and lack of sleep can be dangerous when driving.

Do you feel like you do not get enough sleep or feel like you can not make it through the school day? For years kids like you complain about having to wake up early to go to school, but for many years they have studied and found out that later school starting times can benefit kids. It has been proven that kids who get at least nine hours of sleep perform better than those who get less that nine hours. As a high school student I do not get enough sleep through the night due to all of the homework and studying I have to do for the next day. I usually go to bed around 11:30 and have to get up at 7:00 in order to get to school on time. I think school should have a later starting time, because with all of the studies, the facts state that later school time makes students more productive and it makes them a better student overall.

School starts way too early in the morning, many schools throughout the world start in the early hours of the day. Beginning as an elementary student, most kids start with very early mornings, school should start at the earliest 9 AM. Starting school at 7 Am is very common and 2 Pm is common for them to get out. Students have to wake up earlier than that so they will be ready for the bus or for their rides to school. This causes people to be sleep deprived which causes health conditions that can be very deadly.

Schools throughout the United States all have different morning starting times. The average starting time for most schools is 7:59, but is that enough sleep for students? Should school start later around 8:30? There are only fifteen percent of schools that start class at 8:30 or later. There are few schools, that start school before 7:30, which is only about ten percent. The most popular starting time throughout the U.S. has forty-three percent of schools starting at eight a.m.(McKibben). Schools in the U.S. should start at 9 because teens need more sleep to be healthy, productive, citizens.

Most schools today start earlier than they used to. This is not a good thing because it has many negative effects on the students and the teachers. Students are having to wake up at times that are unhealthy for them. They are not getting enough sleep because their schools are making them wake up early, and the ones that are getting enough sleep are getting to school late. Schools should do what’s best for the students and that is to start school at a later time in the morning.

School should start later for these reasons first,it allows teens to sleep more,have more time to get to school, and this has been something many schools have considered for more than 20 years.

Do you ever wake up and feel like you haven’t gotten enough sleep? The reason is because in reality you probably haven’t. Studies show that schools should not start any earlier that 8:30 in the morning due to teens suffering from sleep deprivation. There are many negative effects this condition can have on a teens body including a direct effect on one’s physical and mental health, public safety and excelling in the future. In the Ted Talk video, " Why school should start later for teens" by, Wendy Troxel.  Ms. Troxel explained why school should start later for teens.. Students are very drowsy in the morning and are usually rushing to get to school on time which limits breakfasts times and healthy food options. Schools should start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.  for several reasons  but sleep deprivation is  the most important. Sleep deprivation can cause a direct effect to a child’s general health and behavior, public safety and potentially future success.