According to attendanceworks.org, later start times have increasing attendance because kids are not feeling sluggish and are awake enough to feel ready to go to school. When less kids are dropping out of school, that means that more kids will probably think about attending college after high school. With less tardiness comes more kids being in class and not missing work. Even though classes are shorter the attendance record will be up. The Detroit Lakes High School needs to change the start time of school so that attendance records are better, test scores are higher and dropout rates are lower. Although some people may disagree with change, and not think a later start time is a good thing you have to think about the good things that come from it and also considered the bad things. Having this change in the high school will improve test scores, decrease dropout rates, and have less students