Pushing Back School

Our Main Focus

We believe that it would be more beneficial for students and teachers alike if 5 minutes were subtracted from each period, pushing the start of the day back a total of 45 minutes.

It is estimated that adolescents need approximately 9 hours of sleep every night. If school begins at 7:30, and students naturally need to wake up, eat breakfast and go through a morning routine, we can assume that they need to wake up at roughly 6:30, often earlier. This means that students would need to go to sleep not much later than 9 pm. An article by CNN Health suggests that adolescents do not feel tired until 10 PM or after. This makes the functionality of our current schedule extremely unrealistic and essentially a set up for kids going through the day tired, distracted and unable to concentrate. A push 45 minutes later in the day could make all the difference, and this would, within a year or two, be reflected in grades and college acceptance as well as graduation. The kids who do well here and now will do well in the future.

The national sleep foundation specifically states that “If teens need about 9 1/4 hours of sleep to do their best and naturally go to sleep around 11:00 pm, one way to get more sleep is to start school later”. This makes it clear that our solution has been scientifically proven to be extermely beneficial for students. Pushing back school is also good for students because according to this article, teens with poor sleeping habits “were more than twice as likely to use drugs, tobacco or alcohol”. Also, scientists have theorized that loss of sleep at the time of adolescence can cause permanent changes in the brain.

Student Sleep vs GPA
Here are our sources!<br>

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