Should high school start later, or should the times be the same? Students will most likely agree that school should start later, but parents might think otherwise. Parents of high school students who also have younger students would like their high schooler to be home for their younger kids so they do not have to pay the ridiculous amount money it costs for after-school care. Students would like to go into school later for plenty of reasons. High School should start later because students will get more sleep, be focused, have a better breakfast, and they will be able to stay up late doing homework. Being able to get more sleep and more time to do homework will help students be more focused for the day. Students will be able to get more sleep, so they’ll have better attitudes. Studies show that people who get less sleep, even a little bit less, the loss of sleep has a significant effect on mood. Since students will have better attitudes, there will hopefully be less trouble coming …show more content…
Students can make themselves better breakfasts, which will result in more energy for the day. Twenty to thirty percent of adolescent aged students have given up completely on eating breakfast. Most teens don’t eat breakfast because “-- busy until late into the night with homework, extracurricular activities, and part-time jobs. They go to bed late, then get up and rush off to school, too frantic to eat” (American Academy of Pediatrics).Students can, if they need to, stay up later to finish up homework and still get a good amount of sleep. Some students will stay up until either one a.m. or two a.m. completing homework, and if they need to wake up at five or six a.m. for school then they are only getting three to four hours of sleep. Since they are staying up so late, and not getting the right amount of hours for sleep, then when they might fall asleep in