Why High School Should Start Later

It is an ongoing argument on whether high school students should arrive at schools later to help the teens who are sleep deprived, depressed and have serious mood swings. This is inconvenient for a number of reasons. Parents cannot get their children to school on time if the school time is changed, and it interrupts the teens schedules who are already accustomed to the 7:30 time scheduling.

In the passage “ High schools starting later to help sleepy teens” by: Michelle Trudeau it states that later school times are helping the teens be more alert in class, they have less depression issues and the parents have less problems than before due to their emotions being more regulated. While this may be true there are more problems to deal with like the fact that the schools budget will increase due to the fact that the bus drivers will need to be paid more because altering the schedules mean that they won’t be able to rotate the time schedules like before, the school bell will need to be fixed to ring at the newly scheduled time and in overcrowded school they can …show more content…
Most parents work early schedules that allow them to fit time in to drop their children off on the way home from school, if the school schedules are altered then the teens will have no way of getting to school. Most households who are already accommodated to waking up at their school times to adjust that is to rearrange their whole routine. In the passage “ High schools will keep starting too early. Here's why” in paragraph three it states that, “ Sleep deprived teenagers are more likely to crash cars get depressed, and become obese” these issues can be solved very easily by teens going to sleep at earlier times to get themselves used to their early