An Early Start Time

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Are you fine with students having their grades, standardized test scores being affected by an early start time, and miss more days of school. The first reason is that the students grades are affected by the earlier start times for school, because they aren’t as awake and alert as they would if they had later start in the day, being sleepy throughout the day can hurt their grades because they don’t pay attention to the teacher. They have a chance to fall asleep during class making them miss important things that they have to do or are learning and can fall behind in class.

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