active and ready to start your day. For adults you need at least 7-8 hours of sleep and children need about 9-10 hours of sleep so that your brain and blood is flowing and ready learn the next day. That is probably why your teacher says you should sleep and eat plenty of breakfast before taking a test because then you won't feel fatigue. As a teen we don't know how important it is to get enough sleep and think it's fine to sleep late. Changing the time of starting school to later is a great idea…
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them healthy, keep them safe and start school later. I believe school should start later. Starting school later will improve teens health and safety. First, the safety of the teens and others will increase. For example, Police reports have shown crime rate to be higher at times after school and before parents are off work, starting school later will result in students being released later which will have crime rate decrease (Source 4). Since school starting later can improve not only the safety…
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Pediatricians Say That School Should Start Later for Highschoolers, My Thoughts. Pediatricians are saying that high schools should start later in the day for children’s mental health and improved school performance. They say students stay up too late and don’t get enough sleep. Therefore, many believe school should start later for high schoolers. However, I disagree with this claim. I believe high school should remain the same for a long time. According to “School starting later”? Give me a break…
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percent of teens text or use a cell phone. Therefore, school start times aren’t the main reason teens nowadays are always so exhausted in school. According to the articles “Should School Start Later?” by Justin O’Neil, “Teachers Overwhelmingly Oppose Later High School Start Time In Montgomery” by Julie Zauzmer and Dana Hedgpeth, and “Hey You, Wake Up!” by Matthew Huston, schools across the country are considering pushing school start times later in the day so kids can sleep in. In fact, some experts…
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through the dark towards your school. As you head towards school, ask yourself, “why can’t school start later?” Many teens across America experience this problem. So, does this mean schools should change their start times? While some say that starting school later improves student wellbeing, others believe that starting later would have a different effect on the student body. Although people claim schools should not change their start times, ultimately schools should start later because students are more…
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In the article “ Should School Start Later? “ By Justin O'Neill will state all good things about school starting later. School should start later because it can keep you from being at risk. One reason people think that schools should start later is because seventy percent of teens aren’t getting enough sleep. According to Heather Macintosh of the nonprofit organization “ Start School Later “ , “ Well-rested kids learn better.”( 20 and 21 ) This is proving how if school starts earlier than the…
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School start time School is dreadful and tiring, imagine as a teen waking up in the morning tired, not happy to go to school and just miserable. If you go to middle school and high school, you will realize that most kids are very tired. They aren’t bright and happy to be at school like younger kids are. Teens dread school, the thought of getting up early for them is like doing a chore and also going to school. School gives kids anxiety and depression from having to wake up and then go to school.…
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Later School Start Time, More Sleep “The school day should start later for teenagers because they aren’t wired to go to bed early and they need their sleep,” says author, Dan Weissman, in Marketplace with the article “High School Will Keep Starting Too Early, Here’s Why”. Students aren’t getting enough sleep, focus, or the health they need. No matter what, students will continue to go to sleep around the same time, you can’t change their bedtime but you can change the time they have to get up. School…
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teenagers go to school tired? "Studies have shown that teens need 8.5 hours of sleep,"says Justin O' Neil in his article Should School Start Later?,"Most teenagers don't get enough sleep."(20) School should start later. There are a large number of reasons why I feel this way. Some of these reasons are that students can participate in a lot more extracurricular activities after school, students tend to show better grades when school starts late, and that less students are late to school. First of all…
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English 1 Argumentative Speech March 5, 2024 School Should Start at a Later Time I remember when we had so much fog that school got delayed. When I got to school everyone looked a lot more alive and I felt really good about myself. This is why school should start later. In the state of Kentucky, the school day should begin later so students can get better grades, a decline in motor vehicle crashes, and a decrease in tardiness. Starting school later will give them better grades. According to the…
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