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Jacob Highsmith Shafer  Comm Arts 7-8  4/6/11  Early To Bed Early To Rise   The unfairness of the new school start time   Do you want more sleep? Do you want more time after school time? The answer is not change the school start times. Students are getting seven to ten hours of sleep now, they need sleep but the school change to have it moved back an hour later will not help it will hurt. They are going to lose time after school to play sports, do homework, sleep, and be with their friends if this change is made.   <span style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">When school started at 8 the number of students who said they felt irritated or annoyed was around 84%. (latimes.com). That is a lot of kids who don’t like school to start around 8. Richard Schwab of the University of Pennsylvania says “That teens have a different circadian rhythm then adults and that the natural bedtime for teens is between 12:00 and 1:00 am.” (findingdulcinea). If kids want more sleep they should go to bed earlier, kids would get the same amount of sleep as if they went to bed an hour sooner. “66% of students reported feeling “Some what unhappy or depressed” when school began at 8.” (latimes.com). If more then half of the kids are unhappy it is obviously not a good thing. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Less sleep is associated with a number of bad outcomes for teens including obesity.”(livescience.com.) Yes less sleep would but the change would not help in fact would hurt kids by giving them less daylight to use athletically after school causing lack of exercise/ obesity. “Shifting start times will impact traffic congestion and commuting for both teachers and students.” (sleepfoundation.org) That would make it a bigger pain to get to school. “The change will affect the entire community, from students and parents to businesses libraries, police, youth sports clubs, bus drivers and many others” ( sleepfoundation.org) These will be affected by schedules, carpools, daylight and more. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> “Students are concerned that being in school later in the day means that it will cut into after school jobs and activities”.(sleep foundation) a student actually came up to me and said that he will won’t be able to stay after school because the change will make it to late in the day. According to Lindsey Beers she used to go to bed between 10 and 11 pm but found it too difficult to wake up early in the morning for class now she goes to bed at 8pm.(lasvegassun.com) She is smart if you are tired in class just go to bed earlier. I surveyed 22 kids and I teacher 17 of them said they want the schools time to stay the same. This shows that majority of people want school’s time to stay the same. Over all the new school start time will negatively affect people in many ways there for school should stay the same time.

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