Should school start later?

[8Cheyenne]

 

Should school start later?

 

There are only 17% of U.S high schools that start at 8:30 am or later. There have been many studies why schools should start later. If schools start later than studies show that graduation rates go up. There was a study done by University of Minnesota in 2016 that showed they looked at 8 different high schools across the U.S that picked out later start times, from 8 am to 8:55 am. Study found big decreases in absences and tardiness, also greater academic benefits with later start times. According to the CDC school starts too early causing students not getting enough sleep which is associated with several health risks including being overweight, drinking alcohol, using drugs, and poor academic performance. Starting school later would also help students with getting the amount of sleep they need. There were studies done by University of Washington that showed if teens get more sleep, show improved grades and attendance with later school time, researchers found. 

Pros: Starting school later could help reduce the amount of time kids or teens are left alone due to their parents working schedule. It will also help reduce caffeine dependence. There are students out there that will drink a lot of coffee and energy drinks that can cause long term side effects like severe dehydration, chronic pain attack, and high levels of adrenaline and cortisol. Another pro would be that it would give students a chance to eat breakfast and not be in a hurry. The last pro for school starting later would be it reduces the amount of car accidents for teens. According to AAA teen driver drowsiness is responsible for 100,000 car accidents every year.

Cons: Starting school later could cause some issues with the student schedule. It will cause some transportation problems for the school districts. Another con would be cause some issue with teens that have after school jobs that require them to be there at certain times. Starting school later could cause students to not get their homework done or stress them out to do it the next morning.  Another reason is it could cause teens to stay up later at night. Lastly it would alter the teacher schedule especially if they have doctors appointments or family time.

 

Do you think starting school later is good idea?

What time would you want school to start?

Do you think it would change the students absences and tardness?

 

https://vittana.org/19-should-school-start-later-in-the-morning-pros-and-cons

https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/features/schools-start-too-early.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%202014%20School,started%20before%208%3A30%20a.m.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0031721716681770

[8Cheyenne]

I agree with you starting school at 8am is perfectly fine and is a good time to start. I also agree if we started later most student would have to do their homework late at night. 

[8Lexy]

Yes I beleive school should start at 9 am. It gives us enough time to get up have some breakfast and get ready for the day. Sometimes kids wake up late and still have to shower and eat breakfast. If we have to be in The school at 8 that means we have to wake up so early to do everything we need to get done.

[8Cheyenne]

I disagree with you I think school should not start at 9am because there is many reason why. The first reason is because there is students that have after school jobs or sports and if we go later for school that might cause some kids to go later in sports or even not be able to work a lot of hours.

[5Ben]

I don't believe that school should start later unless there is less time in the day. I believe this because if school starts later, it would just push it back into the day. This could ruin or change their schedule later in their shortened day. Although this could help the minority of students who can't get to school on time often, it would not help most people. I do believe it could work if they took two or thee minutes off of each class to start thirty minutes later, but I would rather they end school earlier. For me, after school free time is more important than before school free time because in the morning you are very drowsy and your activities feel worse, so I would rather end school earlier than start later.

[8Cheyenne]

I agree, I believe school should not start later because then we wouldn't have a lot time in rest of the day. I also agree that it would also push us back further in the day. It could aslo ruin many schedule specially with kids that work jobs and sports.

[8Ben]

If anything I think school should start earlier. If it starts earlier than we could get out earlier and could get home at an earlier time. I think it should start around 7 or so for highschoolers, but for the little kids that cant drive it think 8am works good for the kids and the parents.

[8Cheyenne]

I agree with you I think school should start earlier then 8am. I also agree with you because if we start earlier we can get out earlier. But like you said just for highschoolers but not for little kids because they can't drive.

[4Grant]

I think that school starts at a good time. One of the good things that school does is prepare you to wake up at a certain time to be at a certain place, just like a job. I will say that if the school start time is moved back more students will be awake and ready to lean. I think that school should start at 8:00 am because there is enough time to get ready in the morning. 

[8Cheyenne]

I agree with you I think starting school at 8 is perfectly fine too. I also agree that the school does prepare to wake up at a certain time be at a certain place. 

[5Lindsey]

I don't think school should start later. If it started later many kids would decide to stay up later because they get more time to to sleep in, which would kind of defeat the purpose. I also would rather just start school early so it can get over sooner and not break up your day as much.