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It’s something we can all agree on: no one likes waking up early for school. Homework and extra-curricular activities can push the amount of sleep you get, and I know I sometimes show up to school feeling like a zombie. With everything going on in a high school student’s life, it seems we are loosing too much sleep these days; having school starting at eight o’clock can feel all together too early at times. If high school began at nine o’clock (instead of the middle schools), most everyone could benefit.

I know your probably thinking this is a great idea in theory, but if school started late, than it would end an hour later as well. But, if the regular amount of classes was six, not seven, than school would end around the same time it does now. For example, P.E. would not be a required course, cutting the number of classes down right away. By the time you are a junior or senior, you have the option of taking five classes, so upperclassmen are now able to get out of school earlier, just as they are now. If classes start promptly at nine, then would end around three o’clock.

In my opinion, high school students deserve a later start, not middle school. If middle schools started at eight and high school at nine, the issue of transportation is solved. Buses can still have a staggered schedule like they had before. There are more high school students than middle school students, so bus drivers would have more time to transport them the school.

High school students, as a whole, have much more homework to take care of, and have more activities outside of school. When students need to stay up rather late to work on assignments, they could also have an additional hour of much need sleep. In the end, students would probably be better off it school simply started an hour later.