School Should Start Later

The fact that school opens so early has caused some major problems among students at middle schools. It is not right that almost all middle school students should arrive at school, yawning and with their eyes drooping. That’s how it is with most middle schools. A negative point about an early school starting time is when kids wake up in the morning, they usually haven’t had enough sleep. In the morning, teens have to rush and get ready really fast, maybe even miss breakfast just to catch the bus. If they miss it, it always becomes a problem for everybody because most parents have their jobs to go to also in the mornings, so this causes stress for everybody at home. When students come to school all tired and sleepy, they feel that school is something very hard to go to, and it shouldn’t be that way. But when kids think this, it leads them to lose interest in school and think that it’s the worst part of their week. A later school opening time would eliminate this thought in the students. Early school starting times is also a possible cause for less quality work and grades in the morning periods. Because stress, less interest in school and lower grades are all causes of early school starting times, the easiest and best solutio

Since stress, less interest in school and lower grades are all causes of early school starting times, allowing more sleep to students through later school start times would be an obvious solution to this problem. There is clearly no problem in moving sports, clubs, and other activities up an hour and a half along with new school start timings. Also, homework time shouldn’t be affected because students who really care will do it right away after they come home from school and there will be no problems. Stress in the morning for possibly everyone in the house is not worth an early school starting time. Less interest in school and lower grades are both negative things causing many bad things for students including less enthusiasm. If school started later in the day, life would be easier in the morning for at home, and a fresh and happy start of the day is what counts most for everyone.

In the winter, which takes up the greater part of the school year, it is very dark outside at around six o’clock in the morning. When students wake up that early feeling all tired, sleepy, fatigued, and barely able to get out of, it is painful to get up when it doesn’t even look like that it’s morning outside. In fact on cloudy days, it is still even sort of dark by the time I am going outside to my bus stop. This makes students feel like as if going to school is a bigger pain than it already is. It makes them give up trying so hard because they are already tired from the morning in addition to having to go out into the freezing cold weather (which it is most of the school year) to go to school. It is true though, that the most obvious solution to the lack of sleep and tiredness in students in the morning is just for the kids to have their homework done earlier and then to go to sleep early, but it’s not that simple. Kids in middle school get so much homework that students need to think a lot. In addition to that, there are many times when