Can you imagine a teens daliy agend starting at 9:00am when they get up and get ready. Then they get to school at 10:00am right on time of 1st period, then at 5:00pm they get on the bus and drive home, but during this time is usually when sport practice, part time jobs, and clubs usually start and some even end by this time. So the adolescents wouldn't have time for any extra curricular activities and barely enough time to do homework, and that is due to the school having an later start and end time. Starting later has some pros and cons. One pro is that adolescents would get more sleep. Some cons of starting later include interfacing with outside of school activities, the total cost of it, and the transportation and safety of the kids.
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
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