Starting School Times

Most schools start around eight o'clock in the morning. Kids struggle to get out of bed in the morning and drag themselves to school for seven hours of education. Statistically, it is know that a child has a harder time focusing when he or she is tired. In result, schools should start an hour later in order to accommodate the amount of sleep a child needs for development.

As a student in high school, I hear stories from friends and family members about how they are always tired from coming home from work or school. Approximately, these people receive about four to six hours of sleep a night. They have reported to make silly mistakes on homework, classwork, and tests that they know they could have gotten correct. These same people also report to sometimes drift off during a lecture and falling asleep on the job.In comparison, students who get a full eight hours of sleep report to feel better and more focused in class.

The time period for schools should start later. Students who go to schools that start later report to do better academically and retain the information they are taught. I believe that if schools were to start later, students would not feel as pressured to stay up late doing homework, which had be done last minute due to extracurricular activities, family gatherings, and holidays.


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