School Should Start Later Research Paper

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Schools should start later in the morning due to the fact that teens can possibly get better grades and that teens were made to wake up later.Teens wouldn't just deal with stress, they would notice things that they cannot control.Teens are not getting the learning experience they need to become doctors, lawyers etc. Many people believe that school should stay the way it is or problems will start to come.I disagree because if things don't start changing, then kids will never be able to do better in school.In "Should the School day start Later" says that a girl named Jilly Dos Santos wasn't able to handle waking up extremely early and was even about to drop out of school.See what I mean, her grades will start to drop not because not good

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