This one change to our schooling system could sink millions of families. The change being talked about in this case is moving back school start times to be later; though as you will come to see later start times are objectively worse than current start times. The reasons that will be discussed in this essay are the financial implications for schools, families and the detrimental effect it will have on kids.
Firstly is the exorbitant cost of after school care after later start times are implemented; as the article says “Costs vary, but for two children at the YMCA in West Roxbury, after-school care from 3:25 p.m. until 6 p.m. is more than $700 per month (the cost would naturally go up with the extension of hours needed), plus the yearly membership cost of the YMCA (currently $90 per family).”( passage 3A paragraph 8), and it also says “For the 30 percent of kids under 18 living at or
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I see it every day.” (passage 3A, paragraph 6), “Under the new start times, and therefore early end times, these kids will be spending up to four hours home alone every day.” (passage 3A, paragraph 7), and “Many studies in North America have shown that adolescents left at home alone feel lonely, have worries, and experience fear, and are also at risk of antisocial behavior such as truancy, stealing, and drinking” (Relationship Between Leaving Children at Home Alone , third paragraph of introduction). It has been made apparent by the above excerpts that under the proposed late start schedule children will be spending exponentially more time alone than before, consequently children will more often have feeling of loneliness, worrying, fearfulness, and as the NIH said they will be at a higher “risk of displaying antisocial behavior such as truancy, stealing, and