School should start at a later time?

[Saturos]

To the original question; no.

Sure, its unhealthy and whatnot to only get 5 hours of sleep or not, but it's ultimately you choice and/or your fault you go to bed so late at night. You know you have school in the morning, so instead of making it harder than it should be to get out of bed in the morning, go to bed earlier.

Aside from that, I liked starting early better for other things you enjoy after school. I'm done with school now, but I still need to get up at the same time (6:30) everyday to make it to work on time.

[Tank101]

There's a difference between when you go to sleep and when you wake up.

I go to sleep at 10:30 and wake up at 7.

That's 8 1/2 hours of sleep, and yet I still feel extremely tired because I interrupted the sleep that my body needed.

Your body was meant to wake up on it's own, not to be forced up.

[HeroOfShadows]

Personally, I think that school starts at a reasonable time already. Mine starts at 7:45, well, we have to be in homeroom by then, and ends around 2:45. I get up around 5:30 and have no problems in the morning. I usually go to sleep around 11. 6.5 hours sleep cuts it for me, and I guess that's average. I don't have any problems with my morning classes, but at the end of the day I'm ready to leave.

But I am just one person, and I have friends that could sleep ALL FREAKIN DAY.


I guees I'm trying to say it's different for everyone, and I don't mind school starting time how it is now.

[Enigma-7]

The standard for my area is for school to start at 9 and end at 3:30.

My school. being evil, starts at 8:25 and ends at 3:00.

I was used to 9AM-3:30PM, as it's like the atandard for my previous school and every school in this whole reigon, plus my school doesn't recieve as much homework as it seems others do, and nobody here has a job yet.
If my school would keep to the standard, I'd still be able to get home on time, walk my dog, eat lunch, do myt homework, all in time for 6:00 Simpsons.

But... I can always fall asleep on the carpet in front of my bed, if it's really thast serious.

[msbrunnettemickey]

Ha. Hahaha. Hahahaha.

The elementry schools in Tenafly, NJ = Begin at 8:30 End at 3:10
Middle school= Begin at 8:25 End at 2:47
High school Begin 8:00 End at 3:00.

But i take extra hours because im concidered a "very hard working" student. Yes, i got basketball, track, and extra studies, and i also want time to have fun. So i really get out of school at 4:00 sometimes.

Middle schoolers... Lucky bastards/bitches.

[suicidalmuskrat]

Damn I'm old...I guess there's an advantage to going to a private school. Tuesdays and thursdays we had chapel for about 20 minutes, which i skipped. On the other days, I was late to first period probably 75% of the time. I set the school record for detentions in a year. I had over 35 hours of detention my junior year. My senior year I took college classes so I missed the first couple of hours of highschool, and it's not a big deal if you're late or don't show up to a college class, so that dramatically reduced the detentions...And I played all the highschool sports I could (baseball, basketball, soccer....in michigan you can only play 3 sports a year...which is a bummer, because i would have done tennis and track as well, if possible...)...i don't know how I managed highschool...looking back, it was insane. But I really think it's a personal thing. Because even if I got 10 hours of sleep from 10-8, I wouldn't feel near as rested as if i slept 6 hours from 5-11...which is weird.

oh, and I usually didn't actually get done with school/activities for most of the year until 9...because I also did the musical/drama for junior and senior year...but it was fun...in some ways I miss highschool a lot.

[Privateer]

Elementary school: 9:15 to 3:15
Middle School: 8:30 to 2:30
High School: 7:02 to 2:04

Those are the exact numbers. You'd think there was a typo when the decided the times for high school 70 years ago but they kept it that way.

As for the topic question, the entire school schedule needs to be revamped. But if you are going to keep it to five days a week like it is now, you can't push the time ahead. Doing that would effectively push ahead the other schools' times because of bus schedules. It would also make after school activities be pushed way too far into the day.

Of course, that's what I would prefer. I'd love it if school was from 10 to 5, but I know that would never happen for a high school.

[LegendaryDJ]

[quote]Elementary school: 9:15 to 3:15
Middle School: 8:30 to 2:30
High School: 7:02 to 2:04

Those are the exact numbers. You'd think there was a typo when the decided the times for high school 70 years ago but they kept it that way.

As for the topic question, the entire school schedule needs to be revamped. But if you are going to keep it to five days a week like it is now, you can't push the time ahead. Doing that would effectively push ahead the other schools' times because of bus schedules. It would also make after school activities be pushed way too far into the day.

Of course, that's what I would prefer. I'd love it if school was from 10 to 5, but I know that would never happen for a high school.

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I diasgree, I am in middle school and my school starts at 8:00 a.m. I would like to have school from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. like in elementary school. i believe that becuase of that my grades have dropped greatly from 90-100's to 60-70 or 70-80. Sometimes though I get a report card with and average of 90-100. But I think early rising is the cuase of that. But that's just my opinion.

[Reach]

I would prefer it if my school started at 8:30. We currently start at 8, and we get out at 1:45 which is GREAT, but an extra half an hour of sleep would be perfect. Any later is just a little...rediculous. Sorry, go to bed earlier. How many people do I know that don't go to bed until midnight? Don't use being a teenager as an excuse to stay up O_O as easy as it is to do...go to bed at like 10 or something. You'll feel better in the morning. Hell, I get 8 and a half hours of sleep a night and I STILL wish I had more sleep...don't know how people can live off of 6 haha. I know I certainly wouldn't be thinking as straight as I do normally.

My summer job started at basically the same damn time as school anyway, so I might aswell stick with things. I wouldn't want to go at 9 or 9:30 or something...you'd get out way too damn late.

[Saturos]

I function normally day to day with 5 hours sleep. There's a name for it but I forgot what it was. =\

But for normal people, just go to bed earlier and deal with it.

[msbrunnettemickey]

Says the one with 69 posts, that gets 5 hours of sleep every day. XD

WHAT?
If you know me, i can sleep at 6 in the afternoon, and wake up at... 5:30 in the morning.

But i usually go to sleep at 9:30, since i got morning classes. O.o

[LegendaryDJ]

[quote]I function normally day to day with 5 hours sleep. There's a name for it but I forgot what it was. =\

But for normal people, just go to bed earlier and deal with it.


It's is called Insomnia or something close to that if you were still wondering......

[Tank101]

C'mon people, have some sense, some people can sleep more or less than others.

I have a friend who literally gets about 5 hours of sleep in 3 days.
He's never tired.

[msbrunnettemickey]

We know tank...

But some people use things to keep them awake throughout the night, or through the day, if they don't get any sleep.

Adults! I see my mom drink 5 cups of coffee in the morning, and at night.
I only see my dad drink in the evening... but still, he also has to stay up.
Yes, even I.

But caffeine is a drug. You get addicted to it.
My mom's drug of choice. XD

I remember someone telling me that from the age 12-22 or so... Teens-Young adults, have energy at night, and don't get tired at night time.
That could be a reason why so many teenagers get 5-8 hours of sleep.

[Saturos]

I function normally day to day with 5 hours sleep. There's a name for it but I forgot what it was. =\

But for normal people, just go to bed earlier and deal with it.


It's is called Insomnia or something close to that if you were still wondering......

It's not insomnia. Insomnia is when you can't fall to sleep without help. I fall asleep fine.

And what does my post count have to do with anything? I've been trolling these forums since '03, I just decided recently to actually start posting. ;x

Post count doesn't account for anything, anyways. It's just a number that encourages some people to spam. =\