Shifting School Hours
Many students and schools are now debating whether or not to start school later in the morning. Some scientists are stating that the human mind doesn’t fully function most accurately until later on in the morning or afternoon. Shifting the time of school starting will not improve the students learning abilities because most parents not be able to take their children to school due to their work and will make extracurricular activities harder to practice in the afternoon because they may need light. Many parents’ jobs doesn’t start until seven o’clock to eight o’clock in the morning which would be inconvenient for the students’ ride to get to school. “Shifting school start times to a later hour presents difficulties for parents who may no longer
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First, many sports like football, soccer, tennis, and baseball need the afternoon light for hours to practice for there games. School ending later could cause problems for some sports if some schools have a limited amount of time with lights from electricity. That would increase the amount of money used for that and can be difficult to practice in. Some parents may even not like their kids out so late for practice and want them home by a certain time. Secondly, with extracurricular activities usually ending around the time parents are getting off from work to pick their kids up instead it would be later which could result in them not being able to participate in school activities due to not having a ride home. It could also be harder to be involved in activities outside of school because of the time they get out of school when those activities could just then be starting. Many high school students have jobs to provide money for their families or themselves. If school was to start later they would not be able to get a lot of hours at work or even be able to obtain a job. Teenage life would just be all around more difficult trying to keep up with all the school work, sports, and a job on the side. Last of all is spending time with family many parents will miss that special connection to their children especially teenagers. These are the last years of their life before going off to college and they barely get to see their families. This could cause a social strain on their relationship with their family especially with everything else they may have going
First, many sports like football, soccer, tennis, and baseball need the afternoon light for hours to practice for there games. School ending later could cause problems for some sports if some schools have a limited amount of time with lights from electricity. That would increase the amount of money used for that and can be difficult to practice in. Some parents may even not like their kids out so late for practice and want them home by a certain time. Secondly, with extracurricular activities usually ending around the time parents are getting off from work to pick their kids up instead it would be later which could result in them not being able to participate in school activities due to not having a ride home. It could also be harder to be involved in activities outside of school because of the time they get out of school when those activities could just then be starting. Many high school students have jobs to provide money for their families or themselves. If school was to start later they would not be able to get a lot of hours at work or even be able to obtain a job. Teenage life would just be all around more difficult trying to keep up with all the school work, sports, and a job on the side. Last of all is spending time with family many parents will miss that special connection to their children especially teenagers. These are the last years of their life before going off to college and they barely get to see their families. This could cause a social strain on their relationship with their family especially with everything else they may have going