Argumentative Essay: Should Students Start School Later?

Getting up and ready to go to school is a real challenge for many students. The difficulty simply associate with stress and lack of sleep. This making it a real concern for students performance overall at school. In fact, many parents are unsettled about the starting school hour (Shute 1). Studies show that “making middle and high schoolers start classes before 8:30 a.m. threatens children's' health, safety and academic performance” (Shute 2). For the sake of students health, safety and academic performance this issue is one to be attend to with great concern. There are some factors one must look at in under to comprehend the reason we must start school late, such as better grades, preventing accident, etc. There is consequence to an action

CDC reported that “when teens start school at 8:30 a.m. or later, they are able to get the recommended amount of sleep on school nights, which is eight and a half to nine and a half hours.” I totally agree with the CDC, if schools should begin around 8;30 a.m. or later nationwide there is a guarantee of better academic performance among students. After all, studies show that majority of U.S high school student did not meet CDC 9-10 sleeping hours recommendation (McKibben 1). It benefit student performance at school overall if school starting time is shift, research conducted reported that well known fact that many kids are tired in the day at school and 15 percent fell asleep during the

However, the parents are also soft minded over the change of school time because they fear it will conflict extracurricular activity, or whether they fear there won’t be older sibling to take care of the youngest one. In addition, those who argued against school starting later based their reason on “Most teenagers ranging from 15+ years old only need about 7 hours of sleep. If you can manage to get more sleep at night, then you should be set. Just because a couple of students can't manage to wake up and be ready to start their day when told doesn't mean the whole school should just move up their start times” (“Should school start late” 4). The author of this quote allegedly claim that teens only need seven hours of sleep. I beg to differ, not only was the author wrong, but the quote is highly misleading because the author proof is not scientifically accurate. According to science article called “Teens and Sleep” the required sleeping hours for teens is around “ 8 to 10 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.” On the contrary, this disregard the notion that teen need seven hours of sleep. The later the school begiissue is not government