Essay On Why School Should Start Later

Sleepy Students Do Not Learn What if school started later? Can you imagine being able to rest a few extra hours and coming to school with energy? Or not having to wake up at 5 in the morning for school? Wouldn’t that be amazing?! Currently in most American High Schools school starts at 8 even 7 a.m. On the other side most elementary kids start at 8:30 or 9 in the morning! This has got to be changed. Schools should start later because students AND teachers would be prepared and ready to start the day, students would be actively learning and not half asleep, and also students would have no excuse to be late and not ready for school.
Schools should start later because not only would the students have time to get prepared and ready for school but also the teachers. Students would have a few extra hours of sleep and even enough time to get
prepared for school. Students would not have to wake up so early to get ready for school and get their things prepared that are needed for class. If teachers were to be absent, they would be able to prepare a full lesson so their students can still keep learning even though they are gone. Students would have no excuse to miss the bus, not have their homework on time, and no excuse to be late. Students and teachers would have enough time to be fully prepared and ready with no excuse!
Another reason why school should start later is because students would be wide awake and actively learning rather than half asleep and not learning half of what they are being taught.
Students should be getting up to ten hours of sleep to be able to be and stay healthy. If students are not healthy they are not able to focus and learn well in school. A student get roughly 8 or less hours of sleep due to everything they have to do such as homework, socialize, time for themselves, and their family. Students deserve the right to start school later since they spend practically their entire day in school. In most areas, school is started as early as 7 a.m. That means some students have to wake up at 5 in the morning to get ready for school and to be able to get school on time. Some may say students should sleep earlier but what they don’t think about is of the other things a students has to do such as any outside of school activities, sport, socializing, and family. That takes up the rest of the student’s causing them to have to sleep late and get less than the necessary hours of sleep needed to stay healthy and prepared for
school.
School should also start later so students get to school on time and early. That way students would have no excuse to be late and unprepared because they would have a few extra hours of sleep that could also be used to get prepared for the school day. The only time is should be excused is if they have a parents note, important valid reason, or a valid excuse. School starting later would decrease the tardies and teachers would see a full improvement of the students learning. There would also be no reason to be unprepared. Teacher will not have to hear ¨Well I woke up late and blah blah blah¨. That reason would not be acceptable anymore because students would have more time to sleep, get prepared for school, and get all their work and themselves ready for the day.
Some people may argue that starting school later is not right because parents will not be able to take their kids to school and make sure they are really there and safe, students will not have as much time to themselves if school starts later because it will also end later, and also some parents may argue that they would not get to spend as much time with their kids like they did before school started later. That is not correct because there is school buses available for every students. School buses will pick up and drop off the students safely to and from school. The students will therefore be safe and there would not be any reason for the parents to worry about their kids. Students will have time for any out of school activities because school will not end that late. Students will still have enough time to enjoy their afternoon and to doing anything else they have to do. School ending later is also something positive because it will reduce the amount of time some students are out making bad choices. Parents will still get to spend enough time with their kids. They could spend their weekends with them and also the days there is no school for students. It is a very good idea if school starts later.
School should begin later for these many reasons. Not only would students want to go to school but there would be smarter students and smarter people later in the future! It is a good idea to begin school later. Everyone would be happy.