Why School Should Start Later Research Paper
Should school start later in the morning? Many believe it should start later but some also don’t think it should. There are many different reasons why it should start later in the morning. Throughout this essay I will be explaining and providing facts on why or why not school should start later in the morning. My goal in this essay is to help you understand the opposing side on whatever side you’re against.
According to the article Wake up call by Sarah Mckibben, “Most adolescents (ages 12-25) need 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep per night.” But most of these adolescents don’t get the recommended amount of hours sleep, so then what are they doing? These adolescents can be doing anything from homework to after school activities. There are some kids/teens that don’t do these things but instead play video games or even sleep but those types of kids/teens are very far and few. The students that have practice after school aren’t lazy but rather very busy, not every student athlete has enough time …show more content…
Teen drivers are at the highest risk for drowsy driving; however, and preliminary studies have shown that delaying their school start time has a significant effect in lowering the occurrence of such crashes.” (sleepfoundation.org) What this paragraph is saying is that in order to change the start time the schools will also have to change the transportation times, which in the end can cause more money spent the busses and other school transportation. So a possible solution is to change the start times with an elementary school or a middle school so that way they only have to change the location and drivers. So why don’t we do that? Well because then the elementary or the middle school students will not be getting their recommended amount of sleep and no school district would want that for their schools. That being said, what can we
According to the article Wake up call by Sarah Mckibben, “Most adolescents (ages 12-25) need 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep per night.” But most of these adolescents don’t get the recommended amount of hours sleep, so then what are they doing? These adolescents can be doing anything from homework to after school activities. There are some kids/teens that don’t do these things but instead play video games or even sleep but those types of kids/teens are very far and few. The students that have practice after school aren’t lazy but rather very busy, not every student athlete has enough time …show more content…
Teen drivers are at the highest risk for drowsy driving; however, and preliminary studies have shown that delaying their school start time has a significant effect in lowering the occurrence of such crashes.” (sleepfoundation.org) What this paragraph is saying is that in order to change the start time the schools will also have to change the transportation times, which in the end can cause more money spent the busses and other school transportation. So a possible solution is to change the start times with an elementary school or a middle school so that way they only have to change the location and drivers. So why don’t we do that? Well because then the elementary or the middle school students will not be getting their recommended amount of sleep and no school district would want that for their schools. That being said, what can we