Why School Should Start Early Everyday students go to school tired by the end of the day. So why prolong the day when students are already tired by two and three o’clock in the evening. If school were to start later, many parents and children would be in a bind. This is only one of the few reasons as to why school start early. School starting early can help students by providing students with more time for extracurricular activities, keeping students more calm and focused, and allowing parents time…
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think that school should start later than 8 am. Students should start later in the day so that kids can get a better sleep and be more prepared for school. Most kids stay up past recommended time when they should be sleeping, making them tired for early morning school. Also most kids do some sort of activity or sport after school making them have to stay up late to finish school work. Finally students stay up later on the weekends making it hard to wake up Monday morning to go to school. For these…
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sleep. Kids should always be well rested so they can learn to the best of their ability at school. For this to happen, schools should start later, because if kids do not get enough sleep they have a higher chance of being depressed, using tobacco as well as illegal drugs, and being overweight. 67% of high-school students fall asleep during class, and standardized test scores raise. For every one of these reasons school should start later. The first reason schools should start later is because parent…
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Most kids hate going to school due to the time when they have to wake up, but what if that changed? What if schools were to start at 9:30 instead of 7:30 or 8:00? Starting school later can improve kids involvement and energy. It also flows with the kids’ sleeping rhythm and pattern. There are many benefits to starting school later and it will have a huge impact on today's generation. Starting school later can benefit not only students, but parents, too because it allows more sleep which causes better…
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until 1:30 a.m. Why do students have to be in school so early? The school day should start later than it does. Students should not have to be in school early because it decreases tardies and absences, reduces the chance of a student being in a car accident, increases productivity, and minimizes the chance of a student having health problems. For a while now the average high school start time around the country has been 7:40 a.m. At first, researchers believed that by starting school early, students…
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Should school start times start later in the morning? Your average school day lasts from about eight in the morning to three in the afternoon. But due to lack of sleep and students missing school, shouldn’t school start later in the day? Allowing school to start later in the morning will improve sleep and absences. Most students go to bed late at night and wake up super early in the morning to get to school. If school started later in the morning students would get more sleep and be more focused…
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health? (School Start Later, Healthy Hours). Neurologists say teenagers are predisposed to go to sleep around midnight, and not feel fully awake and engaged until between nine and ten a.m., and as the research shows, adolescents are far more likely to rise later than to fall asleep earlier. So what is the hold up? Schools should be starting later in the morning, when our brains are fully prepared for the day of learning. The current issues, the benefits, and the teens body clock are the three main reasons…
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Teen car crashes have been going up the past two year and schools that changed their start times to two hours later teen car cresses went down. Making school start times later can result in many good things. Students could achieve better testing scores, better attendance, and children can be more alert/safe. Injury in sports can be less likely and depression and irritability can be less likely. If school start times were pushed back to ten o'clock attendance would improve, even nine o'clock attendance…
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Have you ever been in a school shooting without your phone? What do you do if you don’t have your phone to call 911? Then you hear a door being broken down and screams coming from across the hall and then gunshots ring in your ears BANG! Then again, BANG! Then you start praying for your life as you hear footsteps coming closer to your classroom. Then you start barricading the door, hoping to survive. As you hear the door handle rattling. You hear someone shouting “POLICE GET DOWN ON THE GROUND NOW…
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scream and complain that college athletes should be "compensated" for their work on the field. We hear that because college athletes generate money to the university they should get money back. Maybe we should pay high school athletes too, they generate money. College athletes in major universities don't pay for transportation, tuition or team facilities. On top of a free ride the school should pay them as well? Not a chance. So here's the top 10 reasons we shouldn't pay college athletes: 10.…
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