ninth grade students at Johnston Middle School. We are writing to you to address the debate of the delayed school start time. We believe that the school start time should stay the same because it will negatively impact after school activities‚ homework time and the amount of sleep we will be able to get every night. One of the reasons we think the school start time should stay the same is because it will make the time commitment of participating in after school activities more difficult to manage.
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to attend school. Though‚ Still dark and gloomy out‚ trying to keep ourselves awake during each class period‚ had wish we could get a few more hours asleep to be fully awaken and going if only we push the school start time. But‚ does it really gain enough hours of sleep? Putting thought into it‚ Not only it extends the time‚ but it also pushes back after school activities‚ priorities at home‚ work and time for ourselves. It’s already difficult enough to squeeze schedules of after school or extracurricular
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P.O‚ senators and judge‚ I stand as Senator Ortega to keep start times the same for the sake of everyone . School start times will cause a burden in many situations. Moving school start times later will result in increased costs to school systems and unacceptable disruption to many families. Advocates — and editorial boards — may choose to minimize or ignore these impacts‚ but local school boards cannot. School boards are responsible for balancing competing priorities in the face of limited resources
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12 .15 .15 Delaying School Start Times: Is It Good For Students? School start times is a major issue for students. It’s has either been affecting them academically‚ or by reducing the students sleep time. Some schools have made the change of delaying start times‚ hoping for an improvement in students. Studies have shown that delaying start times have a beneficial effect on students. School Start Time Should be delayed early in the morning. Delaying start times could help students academically
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School Districts Debate Over Later School Start Times As most high school students say‚ “if you will regret not doing something for tomorrow‚ stay up late.” This is due to the innumerable amounts of students occupied by homework‚ an after-school job‚ or even extracurricular activities that take place each night. Teachers have noticed that their students are not participating in class and have lower grades‚ because they do not attain the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep needed to function every
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uncooperative‚ and irresponsible. Adults tend to complain about their children never waking up on time‚ but little do they know that their adolescent children have different sleeping patterns that enables them to stay up late‚ and arise late. High school students experience enough stress considering their homework load‚ and they also suffer the hardships of waking up remarkably early in the morning for school. Be that as it may‚ adolescents still have to discern how to wake up early to be prepared for
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Starting high school later in the day would be beneficial for high school students. One positive example for a later start time is‚ “Nauset Regional High School on Cape Cod‚ which pushed its start time to 8:35 am four years ago. They saw tardiness fall by 35 percent and the number of D’s and F’s drop by half" (Vaznis). That is a notable difference. There are many other beneficial reasons to start high school at 8-8:30. Benefits include an increase of sleep‚ which leads to better overall student
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high schools in Fayette County‚ Kentucky‚ changed their start times from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.‚ teen car crash rates dropped by more than 16 percent (NBC News). This study shows that the earlier students have to get up and go to school they are more prone to have a wreck. Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles collected data on the number of drivers between the ages of 16 and 18 in the two counties of Virginia Beach and Chesapeake‚ Virginia Beach starts school at 7:20 and Chesapeake starts at
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Benefits of Later School Start Times “42 states reported that most (75%-100%) public schools started before 8:30 a.m” (“Schools Start Too Early”). Most schools start before 8:30. A decent amount of schools start around 7:20. Schools start early in the day and release later in the afternoon. This has become routine‚ but studies show that students who start early in the day perform worse in school compared to those who start later in the day. Schools should implement a later start time for higher schoolers
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The new 8:45 a.m. start time – it was 7:50 a.m. – is still extremely early for most teenagers‚ who sleep well past that time on the weekends. “They are still waking up tired and many are still coming late to first period.” said Keven Wyhoon a principal at Ballard high school. For many reasons I think that our school start time should stay the same. If we move the start times back it will affect many other thing than the amount of sleep students get. First if we come to school earlier then it will
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