Comments on: 15 Reasons Why School Should Start Earlier (Top Benefits!) https://helpfulprofessor.com/reasons-why-school-should-start-earlier/ College Study Guides. Sun, 22 Oct 2023 06:08:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Parthiv https://helpfulprofessor.com/reasons-why-school-should-start-earlier/#comment-8809 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 06:08:57 +0000 https://helpfulprofessor.com/?p=17133#comment-8809 In reply to Chris Drew (PhD).

Thanks I needed this for my ap psych assignment

]]> By: Blitzo1o https://helpfulprofessor.com/reasons-why-school-should-start-earlier/#comment-5178 Fri, 05 May 2023 22:27:28 +0000 https://helpfulprofessor.com/?p=17133#comment-5178 In reply to Yael.

I agree. I am currently doing an assignment in school on why school start times should be changed. One of the biggest reasons I have found is that when teenagers hit puberty their body goes through something called phase delay. This is where their circadian rhythms shift back by about two hours. This means that most teenagers can’t fall asleep until 11pm.

]]> By: Chris Drew (PhD) https://helpfulprofessor.com/reasons-why-school-should-start-earlier/#comment-4790 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 03:19:40 +0000 https://helpfulprofessor.com/?p=17133#comment-4790 In reply to Yael.

Good points Yael. The points presented in the article are possible debate points for students to critically engage with, not necessarily gospel… we also have a complementary article presenting some of your arguments against starting school earlier, that is linked to within this piece.

]]> By: Yael https://helpfulprofessor.com/reasons-why-school-should-start-earlier/#comment-4747 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:30:18 +0000 https://helpfulprofessor.com/?p=17133#comment-4747 This is so wrong on every level.
1. Sleep is known to be a very important part in learning new things. If students don’t get enough sleep, they wouldn’t be able to learn as effectively, therefore making schools much less effective than they could be.
If your argument to that is “student can go to sleep earlier so they get more sleep” you are wrong for the following reasons:
A. If they go to sleep earlier, they have less free time(because their day ends earlier). I don’t understand how this one fact gets ignored by literally everyone.
B. Sleeping doesn’t work that way. You can’t just fall asleep whenever you want. To fall asleep, you need this hormone called melatonin. This hormone is not produced at will whenever you want to go to sleep. I guess you never understood biology, otherwise you would know that reflexive actions you body does aren’t always up to conscious decisions we make. And some people(like me) are not affected by melatonin pills.
C. Insomnia is a thing that exists in some students. For people with insomnia, falling asleep is even harder than it is for most people. So unless schools want to discriminate against insomniacs, they should not expect everyone to come early.
D. Since student need sleep to learn better, they probably won’t need as many lessons in each subject every week, making the school shorter(because there are less classes). Though I am not so sure that schools would notice this if it happened.
2. After-school activities would be moved forward if schools ended later. Because that’s when students would be available. In fact, those who participate would probably preform better, since they would be less tired. This seemed pretty obvious to me, but I guess you never thought about it, since you didn’t mention it.
3. Daily routines don’t have to start in the early morning, and a healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to include waking up and going to be early. In fact, it’s probably unhealthy, since sleeping in the natural time when you feel tired is much better for your health than trying to force yourself to fall asleep to early and forcing yourself to wake up with an alarm clock.
4. Those who want to get up early still can, and they can have some free time in the morning before school, at home. As you can probably imagine, waking up and immediately having to get ready quickly to get to school on time is not a pleasant experience. Especially if you woke up late. So starting school later can make morning a lot less stressful.

I think these are plenty of good reasons for schools to start later. Fact: Finland’s education system is the best in the world, and they start later and end pretty quickly, so some of my points actually exist in real life, and show results.(not to say that starting late and finishing early is the main factor in Finland’s education system’s success, but that it obviously isn’t harmful to the students’ school lives, and that they don’t hate school.)

I hope you actually understood that there are plenty of good reasons to move school starting times forward, and that you understand that most people hate waking up early.
Though adults do need to wake up early, the same standard should be held against children and adolescents, who’s brains are still developing and need sleep the most.

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