High Schools Should Start High School Classes Later

Start High School Classes Later so Students are More Attentive High School students struggle in their early morning classes. They fall asleep or lose focus in class and cannot pay attention. The teen body needs less sleep and gets tired later than children and adults. Starting the first class later in the day has already started in a few states and has had benefits for the students and teachers. When students become tired or unfocused they do not get the information as well. When they do not get all the material because they are tired they do not do as well on tests. The start times of most high schools now does not give student enough time for sleep which along with tired and unfocused students which causes health risks for the students. Starting high school classes at a later time would give the benefits of healthier teens and higher test scores and grades.
The amount of sleep they get affects many factors of their life at school especially in the morning. Studies from the University of Minnesota, Brown University, and the Children’s National Medical Center procured a substantial amount of evidence that, “running schools at developmentally appropriate hours not only improves health and academic performance but actually results in teenagers getting significantly more sleep” (Bratsis). These studies prove that schools should start at later times to help improve multiple aspects of school and teen life. The hormone that tells the body when to sleep is different in teens than it is in adults and