Starting school later will allow students to get more sleep, which would improve the student’s physical and mental health, attendance, and academic performance.
Students are recommended to get nine hours of sleep at night, but a number of external factors include interrupted sleep from homework, cellular devices, tv, etc - has degraded sleep quality and length so that students are only getting about six hours and fifty minutes of sleep per night. And because teens don’t produce melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone, until later at night, going to bed earlier doesn’t really help.
To help combat sleep deprivation, a growing number of school districts are delaying opening the doors by up to an hour.
Students starting later also helps students combat the symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation, such as fatigue, depression, and memory and cognition impairment.
Delayed start times may even lead to a decrease in the academic gap between students from low and high socioeconomic backgrounds, and also improve grades for the students that often have struggles in school.
This would also help student athletes if they are at an away game, match, competition if the start time was later in the morning. This would allow them to either stay up later and sleep in or go to bed right away and get up in the morning to do homework or study.
I think that schools in the U.S. should delay the start time for school to allow kids to sleep better and get their work done on time. This would also help students to not develop depression, anxiety, sleep deprivation, etc.
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