Research Paper On Later School Start Later

for school. School needs to be an hour later because most teens don't get enough sleep at night so when they wake up for school there tired all day. Studies have showed that sleep is a necessity for teens and most have homework, sports, and after school activities if they're going to bed late and waking up early there going to be tired and get bad grades in their classes. The majority of Students stay up late even on school nights, if students had a hour later to get ready they wouldn't be as tired and failing classes and not wanting to do anything while they're at school. In the article Backgrounder by the national sleep foundation, “Later school start times” It states “research shows that adolescents require as much sleep as they did as a children generally, 8 1/2 to 9 ¼”(1). This shows that adolescents aren't getting enough sleep as they should be to have to wake up early and go to school. Even if we had a hour later to start school students wouldn't be as tired as they are now.
In a survey by public agenda it states “Not according to a new national survey which found that 79% of America's middle and high school students regularly participate in activities both after school and on weekends and 57% have some kind of non-school activity nearly every day”( Rizzolo1). This shows that most teens have after school activities so there getting home late, doing homework then they have to wake up early. If we had late start students that get home late can have a extra hour to get ready and not be late to