Middle School Students Should Start Later Essay

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It’s early Monday morning. 6:00 AM. Maybe even earlier. It’s time to get up, but I just can’t move my body from my bed. I am so cozy and warm. I just wish that we didn’t have to go to school so early! I fall back asleep because I am so tired from getting up so early yesterday. A little bit later I jerk up hearing something...my alarm? I look at my phone “ 6:50 AM”; almost 7:00 AM. “I’M LATE!” I scream, I only have 10 minutes to get ready, pack my backpack and lunch, plus eat breakfast. I get dressed and grab my shoes. I hurry down stairs and quickly grab a granola bar for breakfast. I literally jump in the car and my dad drives me to school. Later that day I go home with another late slip in my hand. Middle school students should start school later in the morning. One reason is that Teens or Kids need the correct amount of sleep or it can affect their health, their grades will go up, and teens or Kids will have more time to get ready so it will be less likely for them to be late. Starting school later will help many Middle School students.

One reason that middle school students should not have to go to school so early is that teens or kids need the correct amount of sleep or it can affect their health. For example, both the CDC and the pediatricians group cited
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In fact, Wake County, North Carolina states that if schools delay school from 7:30 to 8:30 it increases standardized test scores by two percentile points in math and one percentile point is reading. It is very important that all kids have good grades. If they are tired from waking up so early they could fall asleep, not try hard on the test, or the night before instead of studying they could fall asleep from being so tired. If they have the right amount of sleep they will feel energized and awake. They will feel ready for the hard tests ahead of