Late Start School Essay

Have you ever woken up with your alarm screaming “Get up! Get up! Get up!”, just wanting to stay in your comfy, warm bed. Just wanting to fall back into what seems as the best sleep you have ever had? For teen students, these early start times most schools have are the cause of this. Later start times are one of the smartest things teen students need and deserve. Late start school is beneficial to teens health, success, and sleep.

Late start school is a good idea because it benefits teens health. Across America, 70% of teens don't get enough sleep. When students wake up to early, they have a greater risk of anxiety, depression, and obesity. They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but 20 to 30% of students don’t eat breakfast due to early start. In fact, some students have the time to eat a poptart, or cereal, or instant oatmeal, but since it’s so early they don’t think they're hungry. Then, they go to school and 30 minutes after class started they wish that they could eat something, and then the students go about 4 hours until they get to eat lunch.
Another big benefit for late start school is the improvement in school.
There are less tardies and absences with late start school. Test scores also are risen in reading and math. In a study, they found that the students number of students who were absent or late to first period class went from 80 teens to 44 teens. Data collected shows that kids are more alert with more sleep, which can improve grades by a lot. Some students struggle with math or science for example, but if they have those classes early in the mornings, they could drop down into bad grades because they are not fully awake
yet.

Some people think that if teens have a later start time that they will just go to bed later. However, there was a study done on the subject by Justin O’ Neil proving that the students in fact didn’t just go to bed at the same time, but they went to bed earlier. They loved the feeling and mood they were in after having a good night’s sleep. I believe that it’s sort of like when you take the extra time to measure everything perfectly when making Mac & Cheese, and it tastes a lot better. Then, after you’ve had it you want to do it every time.

All teens, kids, and just students in general will have to wake up early during a period in some point in their life. However, it shouldn’t be when they have grades, friends, love, and plenty other things to worry about and stress over. In an article to tell the negativities of late start school ,Eight Major Obstacles to Delaying School Start Times found on nationalsleepfoundation.com, the last sentence of this article states and I quote “ From the data it would suggest most students benefit from the later start.