Pros And Cons Of Starting School Later

Most teenagers dream of having a little more time to sleep in the morning, but they don’t know of all of the consequences of starting school later. There are many different pros and cons of starting school later. I found that there are more cons of it. School should continue to start a 7:35 in the morning because there will continue to be enough time for practices and performances, the times correlate better with the younger kids school times, and students would have to stay up later if classes ended later. First of all, if school start times were pushed back, than school would have to end later. This brings many complications involving sports and extracurricular activities. Sporting events and practices most often happen in the evening. School starting later would allow less time for those events. The article, “Students, officials weigh pros and cons of school start …show more content…
This is a good system because the buses take home the middle schoolers and the high schoolers then they head to the elementary schools to take them home. This happens in the morning too. If high school ended at a later time than the school would have to provide more busses. Keeping the normal start time would save fuel. From the article, Megan Erbacher says, “Smith said things like the number of miles driven per bus route, the cost of transportation per student, bus fleet and driver pool sizes need to be investigated.” All of this meaning that the school would have to start to pay attention to the bussing system, instead of other more important things going on. Also, many kids after school must watch their younger siblings. In the article, Erbacher talks to David Smith, a superintendent, and they explain this concept very well. She says, “He noted many concerns, including teenagers that care for those children while parents are at work.” This might cause parents to have to pay for other child