Most students need about 8-10 hours of sleep on average to remain healthy. However, starting school early can lead to sleep deprivation. This can affect their ability to function at their best, bringing down their average grades. It can also negatively affect students’ mental health, such as increasing the chance of anxiety problems or depression. When students are well rested and mentally prepared for school, they are more likely to choose overall healthy life choices.
Starting school an hour or two later and it’s benefits can also affect teachers. They could arrive at school less stressed and more prepared. This could improve their overall mood and deal with problems in a more effective manner, because if a teacher is in a good mood, it could make everybody else happy too, which could snowball into a continuously happier environment.
However, in families, starting school later could have an effect on their job schedules. Although if starting school later was normal, jobs would most likely change their times, or babysitters would increase in popularity, so it wouldn’t affect them that much if school started an hour or two later. A later school start, anyway, could reduce morning stress for families, allowing for a more relaxed and less stressed start to the day.
This can also help in the long term. With good, consistent sleep patterns, it can lead to long-term health benefits. When people don’t get enough sleep, they are typically prone to problems later on in life, like the higher chance of getting sick or a disease, not enough sleep could also weaken the important systems in your body, because sleep is so important and students aren’t getting enough of it, pushing the start of school back could save many lives in the future.
Additionally, starting school later would make students more socially active, for example, how in the morning in the classroom you try to get students to work together or say answers out loud and nobody says anything and everyone looks like they’re dead. Well unsurprisingly, pushing the start of school back will fix that problem.
Lastly, students will have more time to do their early daily routines, they won’t feel as rushed to possibly miss the bus or try to fix themselves if they think they look bad, so if the students are all happy and have done everything theory want before school, they’ll be happy coming into school, which goes back to the point of when most of the school is happy, everyone is happy.
