STUDENT: School start pros, cons

Waking up isn’t the easiest thing in the world, especially for teens. (I know because I am one.) But is giving us a later start to the day really a good solution?

According to a survey that I took at Lake City High School, 20 of 24 students said the school schedule should not change. “If it is not broken, why fix it?” said Officer Peterson, the school resource officer of LCHS. “What about the sports after school? They’re not just going to change it to a different time.”

The school schedule has been the same since the early 1830s. Also The American Academy of Pediatrics states that school should start around 8:30 or later to give students the amount of sleep they need. So why change it if they already said it?

And according to the National Sleep Foundation, teens should get 9 hours of sleep compared to 6- to 13-year-olds, who should get around 11 hours of sleep. Changing the schedule would throw this off course.

But others may say that school starting later would give students more time to sleep and be awake, and as much as I agree that students need more sleep, it would create chaos for parents. To be more precise, parents have to work and they make arrangements to drop off their kids at school and head to work. Switching up the schedule to later would mean parents would lose time for their jobs.

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