In the article “California Becomes First State in the Country to Pass Back School Start Times”, Taryn Luna writes about how beneficial starting school later in the day can be for students. It can be beneficial both physically and mentally for students, making them perform better academically. Although some opponents to this argument argue that a later start time can prove to cause problems for parents that drop their kids off before work, the overall benefits of starting school later are extremely larger. For example, gov. Newsom in California has fought for school times to start earliest at 8:30am.
My reaction to this is that with my personal experience as a high school student, high school should start later because the school I go to, Glenbard West High School, starts at 7:35 am and because that start time is so early students are suffering majorly from being sleep deprived. Being sleep deprived causes students like myself to perform worse in school academically and can even cause students to fall asleep during class. If my school in Illinois followed the path that Newsom ha laid out in front of us, students can perform noticeably better academically.
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