Essay On Why School Should Start Later

You are sitting in your classroom and the teacher is teaching the class a new lesson. You start to fall asleep and soon you wake up and realize that you have an assignment and have no clue how to do it because you had fell asleep during class. Now you have to go up to the teacher and embarrass yourself by asking the teacher to reteach the lesson to you because you fell asleep in class. Schools should start later and students wouldn’t have this problem.
Students that don’t get that much sleep every night affects them when they get older as well as also right now. If school started later these things could change. According to The Conversation, “Kids that get less than 8 hours of sleep each night are more likely to use cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol.” They also said, “ Schools

Well this argument overlooks that if schools started later than kids would actually be better at their after school activities if they did do them. Even if students had to go to after school activities later than normal it is better for them. Athletic Business says, “there 's growing body of evidence to suggest that later school start times are crucial to improving students ' performance, academic and physical.” This means that kids that don’t get enough sleep at night don’t excel in their after school activities. Students that go to after school activities build self-esteem, sets goals, uses teamwork and gets better grades. If schools started later kids would improve and build on building self-esteem, setting goals, using more teamwork, and getting better grades. This tells you that kids that don’t get enough sleep at night don’t improve on these things. You may think that there is not enough time for after school activities but actually there is enough time for after school activities, they would just be later and kids would excel in