Persuasive Essay On School Start Later

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Teen car crashes have been going up the past two year and schools that changed their start times to two hours later teen car cresses went down. Making school start times later can result in many good things. Students could achieve better testing scores, better attendance, and children can be more alert/safe. Injury in sports can be less likely and depression and irritability can be less likely.
If school start times were pushed back to ten o'clock attendance would improve, even nine o'clock attendance would improve. According to the National Sleep Foundation it is good for teenagers to get about nine and one forth hours of sleep, a normal teenager gets about seven. The typical teenager goes to bed around eleven o'clock at night and wakes up around ten o'clock in the morning. Children ten years and younger get up earlier, middle school and younger, going to school at
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With a later start kids wouldn't have to get up as early and it would be more natural for them to be at school later then forcing themselves to wake up early in the morning. Getting more sleep, means being more awake and prepared for class, can mean better grades and testing scores. Some schools get money based on school attendance in this case starting
Smith 1 school later can really benefit by student getting a better education and getting more money for the school.
A potential problem could be lead to kids missing classes at the end of the day for sporting event or that athletic participation may decline. But there is reason to believe that getting more sleep means less injuries therefore less missed school and playing time. Lisa L. Lewis from the Los Angeles Times says. "In a 2012 study of Los Angeles middle- and high- school athletes, researchers found that getting less than eight hours of sleep was the strongest predictor of injury. Two-thirds of the athletes who didn’t meet this threshold got