Initially, the cost will be a major con of schools starting and ending later. The cost will start shooting through the roof because most parents will already be at work and won't have time to take their kid to school, leaving more kids who need transportation to get to school. So the school district would need to buy more buses and an place to put all the buses as well, and the cost for all of …show more content…
Because if we start at 10:00am instead of 8:20am that means school wouldn't end until 5:00pm and thats when most kids are doing their extra curricular activities, doing homework, and eating dinner. Leaving the kids with little to no time to do homework or have practice, if they need to goto bed at 9:00pm to be ready for the next day of school. In the article “should school start later?” it states “a later start, say opponents, also interferes with some teens’ part time jobs and disrupts after school sports and clubs”(lisa M. Herrington 21). This is proof that starting later will definitely cut time into kids homework time and extra curricular