sleep Options

[smile4me]

whee i just did a presentation on this...

should schools start and end at a later time so teens can get more sleep?

consider
-lack of sleep among teens
-how the time to go to school becomes earlier as we move up from elementary to junior high to high school. (at least it is in my case)
-too much homework/studying

my school starts at 7:45, but the bus picks us up at 6:45. we get to school around 7:15 and then we just do w/e we need to do before school starts (homework, make up a test/quiz, music stuff, etc).
its not mandatory to get to school this early, though.
i think that school should start later because it's been proven that teens biological clocks "wake up" at a later time. which means that if we go to school later, we learn better.

[sadolakced acid]

the reasons why schools don't start school later are not for the benifit of the students in school.

why start school earlier, when most jobs start at 9?

becuase then, public transportation isn't as clogged at 9.

school start earlier so that parents and buses can get kids to school before the morning rush hour.

also, the ealier start time means school can get out earlier, allowing time for extracurriculars.

neither of these reasons are for academic purposes.

schools that start later in the day actually see an increase in test scores. figures, when your students are actualy awake, they learn better.

and it is biological that teenages are more awake later than adults.

thus, high schools, if they were truely trying to help the students, would start school at 10 and end at 5.