Schools in the morning look like they have zombies roaming the halls instead of students. The cause of this is sleep deprivation from waking up super early to be to school on time. Students have quite a bit of homework, and most stay up late to get it finished. Starting school later would assist the average student greatly. The benefits of starting school a little later is that students would be awake and alert, have more time to get ready, and time for practices and/or study groups before…
of high school students across the country are already climbing into their cars or waiting at their bus stops. The average start time for high schools in the United States is 7:59 a.m., which fails to meet the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommended start time of 8:30 a.m. (“Wake Up to Later Start Times”). Fairfax County Public Schools, the largest school district in Virginia and 10th largest in the nation, recently voted to start their high schools at 8 a.m. for the upcoming school year, 40…
All Schools Should Start Later In The Morning High schools should begin later in the morning because, it will give teachers and students more time to rest, teachers can have more time to plan lessons, and it gives more time for parents to spend with their children. One of the reasons why high school should begin later in the morning is because it will give student and teachers more time to rest. For example, “Later start times can mean less missed school — absences dropped 15% in Bonneville…
changes are affected negatively. So sleep is extremely important for every teen. Yet, because high school starts around 7:15 in the morning, majority of the students are not getting the amount of sleep they need to function properly. Starting school later in the morning would give teens the sleep they have been lacking and ultimately increase academic performance, health, and safety. During the school year, many students…
show that teenagers are naturally up later at night. But, WIth some high schools starting at 6:45 in the morning, it 's hard to blame them. Overall student just are not getting the sleep they need to function to the best of their ability. As school’s decide to move their start times up to the wee hours of the morning to accommodate their transportation and after school activity schedule, the real victim is the student, and their lack of sleep. school start times are there to keep everything…
walking into school with a bunch of zombies. They mumble their words and walk very slowly. This is all because they did not go to bed early enough. There is a debate about whether or not schools should start later. This is because people have noticed how zombie-like certain students have become. Schools should not start later because it would cost more money, make kids walk in the dark, and interfere with after school activities. To start off, it would cost more money for schools to start later.…
Only fourteen percent of public high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Schools start earlier for valid reasons in their opinion, however they do not see the effect on the students. Because of these early start times students are more likely to get into car accidents and develop health problems. Having students wake up and go to school early causes many difficulties to the students. District workers and parents find many ways that early start times can help teenagers. One way that they…
Wouldn't it be nice to get the required 9 hours of sleep every night? With these school start times, however, that's impossible. Every day millions of kids drag themselves out of bed and into a classroom full of other sleep deprived kids. That's why schools should start school later. One reason being that it will benefit attitude and lower the chances of depression. Also, lack of sleep can lead to lower academic and physical success. The final reason being that adolescents who don’t get the…
stay up in class all day. In the passage “The Teen That Woke Up Her School”, Should students start school later in the morning and the info graphic shows that it is for her. If you feel the same way then you should stand up. I think school should start later. When you are tired you are not yourself in the morning if you don’t get enough sleep. You are basically a walking zombie. In the article The Teen Who Woke Up Her School it states “About 95% of teenagers are walking zombies.” Also the…
deprivation is a world problem,schools everywhere in the world need to start school later in the day.Here are some reasons why we should start school later:about only 9 percent of students are getting enough sleeep they need for school. About twenty percent of students are only getting about 5 hours of sleep a night.With only little segments of sleep, this causes students to be unable to learn which can leads to worse grades.One study has found that for every 10 minutes later a teenager went to…