Recently there is news recording that people pay more attention to teenage health problems recently years. With the research‚ teenagers in high school cannot be concentration in class and a lot of chronic disease due to the early school time has been found. The source of these problems looks like the class time start too early for students. The main idea for school is to let students learn more but have class early is not compatible with that. It would not benefit for their health and study. Although some
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Middle and high schools around the nation are welcoming students in the morning at the average of 8:07 am‚ nearly 30 minutes earlier than recommended by health officials. Studies show that 20% of all students fall asleep during class on a regular basis‚ and a recent National Sleep Foundation study shows that only 15% of teens get the amount of sleep their brain needs. The reasons for such early start times include convenience for working parents‚ and daylight for extracurricular activities. Teenage
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Graoui Later School Times More than 40% of all schools in America start before 8 A.M. every day (Dretzke). Research also shows that adolescents need a minimum of nine to ten hours of sleep every single day to perform at their best (Dretzke). This means students must go to bed at 9 P.M. on school nights to get the necessary sleep leaving only one hour every morning to get ready‚ eat‚ and commute to school. Because adolescents need a minimum of nine to ten hours of sleep every day‚ school should begin
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High school students experience enough stress considering their homework load‚ and they also suffer the hardships of waking up remarkably early in the morning for school. Be that as it may‚ adolescents still have to discern how to wake up early to be prepared for adulthood‚ but at this moment‚ their bodies are not primed for the early mornings such as adults are. Contrary to the current law‚ schools should begin subsequently to the prevailing early mornings because the untimely school starts result
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Later Start A highly debated question is what time should school start and end. Some argue a schedule from early in the morning to mid-afternoon; yet‚ as a high schooler‚ I believe in a model where school starts around ten o’clock and finishes at five o’clock. This model coordinates with a teenager’s natural sleep cycle‚ assures students are well rested‚ and gives students that are early risers extra time to accomplish tasks prior to arriving at school. With the model I prefer‚ imagine starting
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School start time School schedules have not changed in the last 100 years. But now kids are becoming more involved in after school activities which means that they need enough sleep to last them through the day. There are many positive effects of to a later start time to school like better grades‚ less car accidents from before school rush‚ more sleep‚ and just a better attitude in our kids. School should start an hour later because kids always come to school tired. If school started later kids
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The new 8:45 a.m. start time – it was 7:50 a.m. – is still extremely early for most teenagers‚ who sleep well past that time on the weekends. “They are still waking up tired and many are still coming late to first period.” said Keven Wyhoon a principal at Ballard high school. For many reasons I think that our school start time should stay the same. If we move the start times back it will affect many other thing than the amount of sleep students get. First if we come to school earlier then it will
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School Start Times Have you ever went to school in the morning and not even remembering what went down? I know I have and I didn’t get anything accomplished during the first few hours. All I thought was how much I wanted to go home and sleep. To fix a lot of kids problems I think we should start school about 40 minutes later in the day if not more. One reason I think this is that kids go to bed late staying up doing homework or getting back from school events. Kids in our school district are
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School start time is far too early and very detrimental to teenage students across the country. Schools must start later because it would not only benefit the teachers and students‚ but also the parents who aid them in the process of arriving on time. A later start would be better for students’ health‚ increase attendance and overall benefit those affiliated with the education system. Students’ health is at risk every morning when the alarm goes off exceedingly early. Teenagers need on average
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Later Start Times for Smarter Students Students depend on schools as a basis for their education‚ a place to learn and grow‚ and to push them towards post secondary success. The Mounds View School district’s board members set up the district’s high schools to start at 7:25 a.m.‚ followed by the middle schools (8:05 a.m.)‚ and then the elementary schools (8:45 a.m.). Focussing primarily on our community’s high schoolers‚ as they are statistically proven to need more sleep‚ it is crucial that they
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