If School can start a little later on the day will every student have perfect grades ?
- By Margarita Casanova
- Feb 21, 2018
- 3 min read
School at ForSyth Satellite Academy starts at a certain time witch is 8:50 Am not a lot of students make it on time. The students usually come late or just dont come in at all, This happens because we all get up too early especially if we live far or if us students or teachers have responsibilities. For Example, Students or Teachers may have children- babies that don't let them sleep till very late they won't get enough sleep to get up in the morning to prepare their babies bag or get the baby and themselves dress to go to school. Another example, is that we may have over time jobs due to our living situations students or teachers need more income. When they get home their body is so tired and they also don't get enough sleep to make it to school on time like 50% apporimently come to school on time and have perfect grades and attendance.
I usually come to school late majority of the time it's not that i do intentionally i honestly don't get enough sleep when i wake in the morning. “Ugh i don't want to wake up i'm tired” “turns off alarm and go right back to sleep”. When i wake back up its like 8 or 9 something A school have already started sometimes i feel like its so late it makes no sense to go it will take me like an hour and 15 minutes . I will reach to school around lunch time i come probably get two periods done. What about all my other classes ? I'm going to Fail my cycle ! If i didn't live a little further from the school or if school started a little later on the morning it will be perfect . An example of a good timing for school to start can be at 12pm. My attendance will change i will pass all my class because I have had enough sleep . If i have enough sleep i can thrive both physically and academically.
I interviewed my classmates i did a survey a while ago on this same topic If school will start a little later on the morning or day will every student attendance and grades be perfect ? More students answered yes instead yes then no. They are in the same predicament then me Their answers were that they usually get to school late when school starts at 8:50 am the will get here at 9:50 or 10:50 different times that will jeopardize their grades. All of them are falling most of their classes due to coming late or being absent. Other students that answered the questions of the survey answered no because they know that if school did start a littler later then it will finish later on the day and they don't like that because they want to be home at a certain time or hang out after School.
An article in The Atlantic states that the federal centers for disease control and prevention is urging education policymakers to start middle school and high school later in the morning . They also said that this idea come from the thought of improving the odds of adolescents getting sufficient sleep so they can thrive both physically and academically. In addition , this article is telling us that “ Getting enough sleep is important for students health and safety. “ Early school start times however are preventing many adolescence from getting the sleep they need . I can relate to this article that was published for the department of education to receive a suggestion of school starting a little later on in the morning we will have enough rest and a great amount of time to get ready for school and also travel .
In Conclusion, If our school or every school in general would start a little later on in the morning a high population of students will improve their grades and attendance. We will proceed coming to school everyday on time and have a higher opportunity to graduate faster or on time as we should be. Students will be thankful to the department of education if they take our needs into consideration we will be very successful thanks to the DOE .
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