Essay About Moving School Start Later

Imagine this: You wake up and your parents have already gone to work. You get on the bus, with people having to sit three to a seat. When you finish school you go to football practice or some other extra-curricular activity. You get home around way later than normal, eat dinner, and fall right back to sleep. This is what would happen if school start times were pushed back. Pushing school start times back would make parents jobs conflict with school, cause bus transportation to become complicated and expensive, and send the wrong message. Pushing school start times back would cause parents jobs and school start times to conflict. According to Liz Szabo, from USA TODAY, “The American Academy of Pediatrics last year urged middle schools and high …show more content…
As Daniel Domenech, executive director of AASA, the School Superintendents Association, says “Allowing high schoolers to sleep in could mean sending elementary kids to school in the dark during the winter, as they would have to take the early schedule. That could pose a safety dangers to the youngest kids as they walk to school or wait at bus stops”(2). This shows that it would create complications. Learning to manage time is an important part of growing up. As reporter Justin O’Neil says in “Should School Start Later”, her article for Scope magazine, “Being on time, managing a busy schedule, and getting enough sleep are all important skills teens will need”(2). If school start times are pushed back, odds are, kids will just sleep in later. Kids and have been, and still are, able to manage this schedule. Pushing it back will change nothing. Some people say that teens are not getting enough sleep, and this is true. However, teenagers need to have routine. If parents set guidelines, teenagers will not be tired during school. Studies have shown using electronics or other sources of bright light make it harder to go to sleep. Reading a book or some other activity before bed makes it easier to fall