High School Should Start Later: HS Arrival Time

The arrival time of high school may have a big influence on the daily life of teenagers in the United States. Adverse effects of early arrival may include depression and sleep deprivation. In high schools nationwide, I am trying to find the best time for my students. While other schools begin after 9:00 am, some schools start their day as soon as 7:30 am. Start time is important as they usually set the rhythm of the day for the students.

There is room for discussion "Can we go to school in the future?", But some schools have decided to change the start time to 8:00 am and 8:30 am, but there are such schools . Later, those who choose to go to school think that young people will be able to sleep at a natural pace in the morning lesson. In these schools, school performance has also improved significantly as young people who were completely absented improved memory, reaction time, mood, and athletic ability. This change is expected to increase health-related problems with sleep deprivation and student involvement in traffic accidents. In 2008, the opinion column on the school start date of the New York Times is that the score also rises when the school in Kentucky State Jessemin County changes the working hours from 7:40 am to 8:40 am. "

At the conference on the latest teens sleep, health and school start time, I did a short keynote speech and some experts presented persuasive discussions to support the start of high school. The subsequent views are like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Sleep Medicine Society. Brian Tefft, a senior researcher at the AAA Traffic Safety Foundation, talked about "drowsy driving". He says to the annual research report as follows. "In the past 30 days, do you often drive when your eyes are too tired to open?" Over the past five years, a quarter of drivers with an average aged 16 to 18 elderly license We report driving at least once and 2% frequently or frequently