This may just be my opinion because I'm extremely tired right now - - but I really think school days should start at 12 o'clock. Its just such a good idea. Its been proven that teenagers need more sleep than the average adult, but its also a well known fact that almost all teenagers stay up too late. the average teenager stays up anywhere from 10 to 3 in the morning on an normal night because most teenagers tend to get waves of energy later at night. This leaves us extremely exhausted for school the next day, and of course we cannot learn very well when we're so tired. If we could sleep in until 12 then we would be well rested and well prepared for school the next day, instead of having to wake up as early as 5 in the morning to get ready and look good in time for school. Even if you dont want to sleep in until 12 it would still be a very good deal because you would be able to shower and get ready for school in your own time, as well as you would be able to finish up any extra school work in the morning. Or, if you wanted to sleep over at a friends house on a school night it would be okay, cause you would have enough time to get back home. We would all have better brain development if we were allowed more time for sleep. Of course, if school days started at 12 that means they would probably go until around 7 o'clock. Most teenagers are opperating best later in the evening so it would work well. we would arrive home in time for dinner with our families. extra curriculer activities could be either during lunch or in the mornings -- instead of staying late after school, extra curricular students could just arrive earlier in the morning for their teams and clubs. I know some would say this is a very drastic approach to getting more sleep, and some might say "why not just get to bed earlier ?" The problem with that, is that I for one, -and Im sure many other teenagers agree- feel that after a long day of school, you really need your own time when you get home, but and after doing homework and eating dinner, it can be pretty late. after working hard all day, you just need relazation time -- and lots of it, especially when most teenagers start feeling energetic around 5 o'clock. This is why so many teenagers will stay up for hours watching television, talking on the phone, chatting online, or engaging in any other recreational activity. Teenagers would continue doing this if school went until 7 at night, but it would be perfectly fine if we had the option of sleeping in until noon the following day. for the good of all teenagers, school should start at 12 as soon as possible!
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Man i totally agree with you!!! i really wish school started at atlest 11:30 i mean 12 that would be just perfect i hate waken up at 6 every morning after working a 6pm-12am shift plus some ppl have sports and ALOT of hmwk....totally agree with you nice blog!
sally - okay, I meant to say 8 posts. Sorry, I'm taking a lot of cold medication right now. I will go change it. thanks!
I like this idea. Ive read a news paper article that said our internal clocks dont start working until 10am. So that means we're working for 2 hours, when our body is telling us we need to be sleeping.Even if school started 10am that gives me aleast 3 extra hours of sleep. When I get home from school most of the time I nap until dinner, because i just dont have any energy. Also im after school 3 times a week. Plus homework. These schools days are just not working for me... But the change is really drastic and would take a while getting used too.
I think it would be awesome if school started later, no one be as tired and I might be able to get work done in my 1st two classes
i agree, school should be later, but i think that 12 is a little to late. because hoenstly i dont want my whole day to be school, like i look forward to doing things after school and being able to because we get home by 3. and if we were done at 7 that wouldnt elave much time for anything. and i alos think that because we get up latre to go to school, we would be staying up later which would be exaclty the same situation. we would still be very tired, and school would still be a drag. i think school should maybe start at 930, or 10 because we would be let out at 4 or 5 and still be able to work other plans out with our school hours : )
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