Late Start Middle School
Students all across the Globe should feel the freedom of waiting in there house for school to start. “Late Starts are proof that God Loves us”
–Avery
It’s true. Late starts will demote the anxiety that parents have to take their child to school and then drive themselves to work, that way, you have time to sneak into peoples houses (See video above). Late starts should be more frequent in the U.S.A and in Middle Schools especially. According to a website called “Schools Start Too Early | Features | CDC”, young adults might have trouble sleeping after a long day of school and only 2 hours to study for a Math test, read 20 minutes, finish science homework and do it all before going to spots practice.
The website comments, “One of the reasons adolescents do not get enough sleep is early school start times. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that middle and high schools start at 8:30 a.m. or later to give students the opportunity to get the amount of sleep they need, but most American adolescents start school too early.”
Another website titled “neaToday” stats, “Starting school later allows adolescents to get more sleep, thus improving student’s physical and mental health, attendance, and academic performance, according to new research published by Science Advances.
Adolescents are recommended to get nine hours of sleep a night, but a number of external factors – including interrupted sleep from academic responsibilities and light-emitting devices – has degraded sleep quality and length so that students are only getting about 6 hours and 50 minutes of sleep per night. And because teens don’t produce melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone, until later in the night, merely going to bed earlier isn’t really helping.”
Avtech104 