By Kayla Rudd |
School should start later so students who have jobs or are in sports can get more sleep.
Any student has a has job leaves right after school to go to work long hours. The students can get home close to midnight and have to do homework or projects and don’t get much sleep since they stay up till two or later doing work.
With school starting at 8:45 students have to get up earlier get ready and then leave for the their buses. Bus routes take a while because there is to many stops and a lot of students. Morning traffic can be backed up and buses get caught in it and get here late. If we started later it would give the buses more time to do their elementary and middle school routes before picking up the high school students.
Students need at least seven to eight hours of sleep per night. Working long hours and then coming home to homework and projects makes us students lose sleep, out of those seven to eight hours we need.
According to National Sleep Foundation, not getting enough sleep can limit your ability to learn, listen, concentrate, and solve problems. Losing sleep will affect the way your brain works when you’re learning or listening to what’s being said in school.
The National Health and Blood institute states that getting enough sleep can help protect your mental and physical health. If you don’t get enough sleep, you can get sleepy throughout the day and want to fall asleep and not work. You could mentally break down because of stress and not enough sleep.
If School started around 9:30 or ten in the morning students could get more sleep.
According to Mind Power News, at different times of the day our brains are good for certain things. Nine to eleven is best for creativity. During this time the brain has moderate levels of stress hormone cortisol, which can help your mind focus. Eleven to two is best for tough tasks and two to three is best for a break, so starting school later would allow students to tap into these areas of the brain.
Some teachers think school should start earlier so we can all get out earlier and have one to two hours before work to do homework, go to practice, eat something, or sleep before work in the early evening. These teachers don’t realize they would have to stay later and tutor kids because students would need to have the extra help since their brains aren’t ready to learn that early. In the long run, it could mean more hours than if we just taught students when they were most alert.
The way things currently are is not working because students are losing much needed sleep. District administrators should think of starting school later to correct these problems.