Why School Should Start Later

“Go to bed earlier if you’re tired,” said every parent in this world. Teenagers circadian sleep rhythm is they won’t fall asleep before 11 PM. Schools’ early start times cause students many issues, therefore schools should move their starting time to a later time. Many issues come upon starting school early such as sleep deprivation and the health and safety of the teenagers. To fix these issues the solution is to move schools’ start times to a later time no earlier than 8:30 AM. Many benefits would come from moving the start time to a later time.
One issue with schools’ early start time is that students become sleep deprived. A teenages normal circadian sleep rhythm is they won’t fall asleep before 11 PM and they some have to be up by 5:00 or 6:00 AM to get ready and to be at school on time (npr). This is causing students to not get the healthy 8-10 hours of sleep that they need. Fatigue also can come from only getting
Over 100,000 car accidents happen each year and teenage drivers are behind the wheel on half of them (apa). While heading to school teenagers aren’t fully awake and alert yet causing many wrecks to occur . Drowsiness also comes from being up so early, so many teenagers fall asleep while driving and get into wrecks that doesn’t only hurt them, but innocent people (apa). The health of these teenagers begins to decrease when they go to bed late at night and have to be up early for school (apa). Depression and anxiety start to occur. This leads to suicidal thoughts and the use of drugs in students (blogs.kqed). Risky behavior also starts to occur within teenagers. They begin to start making bad decisions, which soon lead to them ditching school and the attendance rate to drop gradually (center4research.org). Starting school earlier than 8:30 AM has significant part on teenagers health and