School Should Start Later! A persuasive essay (could also be used as a speech) about why high school should start later.
Don 't you hate waking up early in the morning? Almost every weekday, high school students are waking up around six o 'clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier. It 's not practical for high school classes to start at 7:44. It 's just too early for teenage minds to function properly. Our school should start at least an hour later than that. With the extra hour, our attendance would improve, as well as our grades and attitudes. The facts are all there, so why shouldn 't the hours change?
For the 1997-1998 school year, the University of Minnesota conducted a study on Minneapolis high schools. Their starting times were changed from 7:15 to 8:40. The results of this change were obvious. Teachers reported that students were more alert during the first two periods of the day and that attendance improved by five percent. After such a revealing study, why aren 't more schools catching on?
It 's a proven fact that teenagers need between 8 ½ and nine hours of sleep each night. It 's also a proven fact that only fifteen percent of teenagers get the sleep that they need. Can you believe that more than twenty-five percent of teenagers sleep less than seven hours a night? Are you one of those teenagers? Well, part of the reason why this is happening is because school starts so early in the morning. If school hours were changed, teenagers would be much healthier and feel better about themselves.
Furthermore, school officials are always complaining that so many of their students are constantly tardy to school. They even have a policy in our school that states, if you are tardy five times to a certain class you have to stay an hour after school sitting in detention. Out of the many reasons students receive an office detention for being tardy, it 's usually due to their first period class. They don 't get to school on time because they oversleep. With an extra hour, don 't you think it would be much easier to get to school on time? According to the Michigan
For the 1997-1998 school year, the University of Minnesota conducted a study on Minneapolis high schools. Their starting times were changed from 7:15 to 8:40. The results of this change were obvious. Teachers reported that students were more alert during the first two periods of the day and that attendance improved by five percent. After such a revealing study, why aren 't more schools catching on?
It 's a proven fact that teenagers need between 8 ½ and nine hours of sleep each night. It 's also a proven fact that only fifteen percent of teenagers get the sleep that they need. Can you believe that more than twenty-five percent of teenagers sleep less than seven hours a night? Are you one of those teenagers? Well, part of the reason why this is happening is because school starts so early in the morning. If school hours were changed, teenagers would be much healthier and feel better about themselves.
Furthermore, school officials are always complaining that so many of their students are constantly tardy to school. They even have a policy in our school that states, if you are tardy five times to a certain class you have to stay an hour after school sitting in detention. Out of the many reasons students receive an office detention for being tardy, it 's usually due to their first period class. They don 't get to school on time because they oversleep. With an extra hour, don 't you think it would be much easier to get to school on time? According to the Michigan