What if you weren’t so tired in school? Imagine feeling energized and refreshed, ready to learn with your classmates all around you, happily talking about class and catching up with each other. School could be so much better. Therefore, the question is-- should schools have later starting times? In “Should School Start Later?”…
Did you know that they start school at 7:17 ? The starting early associated with poor academic performance, poor attendance/being tardy a lot, higher rate of accidents and injuries. Just about 40% of american high schools start class before 8 am and more than 20% of middles schools start at 7:45 a.m. or earlier. 8.5 - 9.5 is the hours of sleep you are supposed to get each night. Columbia Missouri high school start time from 7:50 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. a full half hour earlier.…
In the years of 2017-18, there has been much debate about how early middle-high schools should start. Several middle and high schools have already pushed their school start times back to 10:00-11:00. The result: many benefits ranging from congenial health to high test scores. These schools have become more successful, and the students more jubilant.…
Should school start later in the morning? In my opinion, I think that school should start later in the morning for these three reasons the students nor the teachers will be so tired and want to sleep, students that drive would be less likely to get into an accident, and students and teachers would have more time to eat a healthy breakfast. I think starting school at a later time would be better for both teachers and students. We all know that one person that is always falling asleep in class it could be anyone, or it could be you! A lot of teens do sports, a job, or some other activities after school so that means you won’t get home till about 10, 11, or even 12 if you’re 18 and work a long shift.…
"School counselors and nurses reported fewer students seeking help for emotional problems and physical complaints," says NEA-Today. Depression and stress declined. Also, fewer people needed caffeine to stay awake in class. Not only that, but the late starts can even improve alertness, memory, attention, and cognitive processing skills (Start School Later). So, students feel much better when late starts are in place, emotionally and physically.…
Since students prefer to sleep in, they are usually in a hurry to do most of these things in the morning. Lastly, teachers will have more time to get to school. Most teachers live…
Schools should push back start times Do you think that students should have to wake up before the sun even comes up and have to come to school? Starting school later in the day would help with many different factors. Schools expect a lot out of students and having to wake up at the crack of dawn, get to school on time, and get good grades while being tired can be very challenging for many. School should start later in the morning because students will get better grades, it decreases the amount of absences and tardies, and it will be healthier lifestyle for the kids to start later in the day.…
If kids could start school later they wouldn't be falling asleep during class. If school were to be able to start later in the day the people that do sports could do them during the morning before school. When kids are sleepy during school they can sometimes get an additude with their teachers and get bad grades. When kids get bad grades from sleep loss in one class they slowly start to fail their other classes as well. Lots of times the students aren't the ones causing the problem, sometimes it can be the teachers.…
Olivia Morris, eighth grade student, says, “ I believe that school should start later because we are up late studying and we should be able to get some sleep.” While some people think that this might change the extracurricular activities and athletics schedule, most schools are very flexible about time…
There are many advantages to coming to school later than usual. But all advantages come with disadvantages. With my experience in school I strongly agree about coming to school later and ending the day later. Coming to school later would have kids paying attention more rather them sleeping.…
Schools NEED to start later! They are going to kill me!!!!! Schools should start later because 33% of teens are reported falling asleep and that Is way too many for just teens. Most adolescents (ages 12-25) need 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep per night The first point that i am going to tell you about why schools should start later.…
Schools in the morning look like they have zombies roaming the halls instead of students. The cause of this is sleep deprivation from waking up super early to be to school on time. Students have quite a bit of homework, and most stay up late to get it finished. Starting school later would assist the average student greatly. The benefits of starting school a little later is that students would be awake and alert, have more time to get ready, and time for practices and/or study groups before school begins.…
Students who have that early of a start are more likely to skip breakfast and stay up later doing their homework. Schools should start later for students to encourage better attitudes at school and at home. If schools started later students would be more concentrated and focused during class. Students will be less stressed in the morning to get ready for school and will have more time for breakfast. If school starts later it will also improve teachers attitudes!…
Two reasons why school should not start late are that the students might have to finish homework late and there would not be a lot of time for after school activities. If we go to school later in the day, then we will finish school later in the day also. Which means that kids might be up late at night to finish…
BRING!! BRING!! What's that sound you may ask? It is your alarm going off. Yet again its another day for you to wake up early and get ready for school.…