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Kenzie Yurkewicz
Mrs. Cramer
Comp Pd.7
24 March 2017
Time Says It All1

Many students complain about going to school all the time. They say, it's stupid, they

dont like it and that its a waste of time. That's why timing says it all. The meaning of this is, if

schools everywhere started school time later, this would fix the problem. American high school

should start later to improve tardiness and create focused, healthy, cooperative students. The later

school starts, the more rested, more awake/ focused and less tardy students would be.2 They

would enjoy being at school more and they wouldn't complain as much.

Firstly, tardiness is a big problem around American schools today. If schools were to start

later, tardiness wouldn't be as much of a problem.3 Most students don't want to get up early in the

morning, so they chose to sleep in and come to school late almost everyday. In the article 'Later

start time for teens improves grades, mood, and safety', that studies show significant decreases in

absences and tardiness as well as greater academic benefits for schools with the latest school

start time. (Wahlstrom 1) This is proving that schools that do start later in the morning, have less

tardiness and all around more focused students that care about going to school. Tardiness also

has an effect on students academic's. If we were to come to school by 9 every morning, students

1 Hypophora- Figure of speech

2 Oxymoron- Two contradictory words; placed together

3 Analogy- Comparing
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would have an opportunity to do homework in the morning, if they didn't have time to at night.

Students could overall make sure to be caught up on what they were doing if we didn't have to go

to school so early. More students wouldn't rush to school if it started later. In the article 'Later

start time for teens improves grades, mood and safety', that later school starts the less car crashes

there is. The number of crashes in a districts study showed a decrease in 13% of car crashes

when school started at a later time.4 (Wahlstrom 1) This means if students were to wake up late,

they wouldn't have to rush to get to school. The later school would start, the less car crashes that

would happen because they wouldn't be rushing to get to school as bad.

Secondly, schools districts say that schools shouldn't start later because it will cost more

to transport the students back and forth by using the buses. In 'Do Schools Begin Too Early',

states that schools shouldnt start at a later time due to the costs. The later schools start the more

money they will have to pay the bus drivers. It's cheaper to have the school start early because

they use fewer buses than what they would have to if they all started later.5 It's stated that the

reason why schools have different starting times is due to having to use less transportation,

which is cheaper than having all the schools start at the same time because they aren't using all

the buses at once now. With this being said, it would be easier for schools to all start at the same

time. This would give the chance for students to be more awake and more focused, rather than

waking up early and not being motivated to do anything.

4 Climax- Figure of repetition, where words, phrases, or sentences are arranged in order of
increasing importance, usually in a parallel structure

5 Paradox- A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth,
nonetheless.
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Thirdly, schools starting later will have more focused, healthy, and cooperative students.

Students would be more rested for the day and would be more willing to actually do work

instead of just letting it go and not caring about it as much because they are so tired to care about

anything. In the article 'Do Schools Begin Too Early?' it states that students with below-average

test scores, suggest that start schools at a later time would narrow tat gap in students achieving

below-average scores of things. (Edwards) This overall means that schools that start later have

seen results in tests taken by their students. It gives that students more time to rest so they are

more rested and healthy to take these tests and would be more likely to get a better grade on it

because they would be more rested. The more sleep you get at night, the better off the students

are for the next day of school. In the article 'Health and activities outcomes' it states those with

school times starting later it decreases the use of cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana usage by 8%

to 14% when teens get those eight or more hours of sleep at night. (Wahlstrom 3) This means

that the more students sleep at night the less you'll be tired in the morning and the more focused

you'll be for the next day. This also is proving the more sleep the students get, the less restless

and stressed you'll be which will decreased the usage in drugs people use. The meaning of this is

will everyone's life healthier because they wouldn't being doing drugs and would be getting that

good night sleep they need.

Lastly, some school districts feel that whether schools start later or not students still won't

be motivated to do anything. If the students dont like school period, starting school at a later

time, still won't change their minds about liking it or not. If they dont like it, then they still

wouldnt like it. Students tend to not care about their grades and have a hard time focusing

whether it's early in the morning or later in the day. They feel that going early would help benefit

the students because they'd be getting it done and over with in the morning and then you'd have
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the rest of the day to yourself to enjoy and do whatever. However, don't really agree with it at all.

The more rest and the later time schools start will increase the chances of the students actually

caring and wanting to do good in school. Starting school at a later time would give them the

opportunity to sleep in, as to what many high schools teenagers would love to do, and then go to

school and get on with their day that way,

In conclusion, I believe that schools should all start at a later time. American high school

should start later to improve tardiness and create more focused, healthy, cooperative students. I

feel this way because I believe that it will make more students focused, and less studetns would

be tardy and would try more often. More students would be willing to actually want to learn if

they had a good sleep the night before and would be able to do better on tests. Most students

could care less about school but I think if they had the opportunity to come at a later time, they

would start to enjoy coming to school more because they'd still be able to sleep in and have time

to themselves outside of school. Many people many not agree with this because they think to just

go early and get out early, but getting a good night rest is very important, especially for high

school teenagers growing.

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Works Cited

Edwards, Finley. "Do Schools Begin Too Early?" Education Next. Finley Edwards, 7

Sept. 2016. Web. 23 Mar. 2017.

Wahlstrom, Kyla L. "Later Start Time for Teens Improves Grades, Mood, and Safety."

Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 98, no. 4, Dec2016/Jan2017, pp. 8-14. EBSCOhost, doi:10.

1177/003172176681770.
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