Why We Should Start Later In High School

I would like to talk to you about an issue that I think nearly all High School students have to deal with everyday.It’s waking up early to go to school.We all know that it is a problem many students have. According to National sleep Foundation a shift in sleep cycles beginning in adolescence that makes it more difficult for most teenagers to fall asleep as early as younger children or older adults.Typical sleep cycles begin around 11:30 p.m for teenagers and continue through 6-7 a.m. This means that an early wake-up not only allows 6 or 7 hours of sleep per school night at most but also requires students to wake up in the middle of deep sleep. According to Mary A. Carskadon most adolescents need about 9 hours of sleep per night. Today nearly 2/3 get under 7, and 2/5 get under 6 hours of sleep per night. Around 10% of the U.S. high schools currently start before 8:00 a.m. which means that students …show more content…
In the 1970s and 1980s, however, many schools shifted to earlier hours . If we change the public school start time, good results will begin to show on the students, for example if school started at 9am and ended around 3-4pm kids would not stay unsupervised because a lot of adults finish their work at the same time. This change can also reduce risky behaviors and crime in teenagers. The people who disagree with me would say that it is better for students to start the school early, and finish it early so they would have more time to do whatever they want, but I disagree with their argument because based on my research, especially High School students, stay unsupervised after school when they finish at 1:30 or 2:00 pm and they do a lot of bad things for example smoke, drink and etc. My conclusion is that if schools started around 9 am students would become more successful at school, they would have less time doing things that they are not supposed to do and live healthier