Your alarm clock goes off in the morning, you open your eyes a little and look at the time. It’s 6:00 am! Then you say “No, I don’t think it’s time to get up already.” After, you hit the snooze button and go back to whatever you were dreaming about, and sink into your soft cosy sheets again. Until later on your little brother comes to knock on your door and yells “Hey, it’s time to get up and go to school!” You yell “No! I need five more minutes.”
Does this sound familiar at all? Well a recent poll that the National Sleep Foundation made for students to take on sleep said that, 60% of children under the age of 18 complained of being tired during the school day, and 15% actually said they fell asleep during school over the school year. Some experts like Heather Macintosh from Start School Later, a nonprofit organization, says that “Well rested kids learn better.” Another reason why students should sleep more is because Mary Carskadon, PhD, is a renowned expert on adolescent sleep, and she lists many of the conveniences of students getting the sleep they need. These are some of the conveniences: less likelihood of experiencing depressed moods, reduces tardiness, better grades, less likely to have drowsy drivers, and lower the risk of obesity. So why not start having later times?
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Also with the hour changes bus drivers might not be able to pick up students to take them to school or drop them off at home, bus drivers have other kids to drop off at different times too. One other bad thing that Scope magazine said about starting school later is that if schools change the starting time people worry that students wouldn’t care and just go to sleep later than usual. So what do you think, should we change the starting time of