Wednesday, October 8, 2014
A Change to the Community
Making changes has always been difficult. People always have different points of view, and can never seem to agree on a common idea. So whatever change I will want to make to a community, the severn community in this post, will be disagreed on by many people. The one change I would like to make to the severn community would be a later start time. It has been stated in numerous studies that teenagers tend to stay up later, and if we had a later start time kids would arrive at school much more energized and more willing to learn. With this later start time we would have to sacrifice an hour more of school, but we would still only be getting out at 3:30 a very reasonable end time. With more energized students better grades could be achieved, and also a more positive vibe given off by students. A later start time would also eliminate that first period slumber that many students go through. On a more technical standpoint it is said teenager should get around 9-11 hours of sleep; to achieve this you would have to go to bed at 9pm which is very hard for some teenagers. If teenagers could stay up an hour later they would be more likely to get that recommended sleep time. In conclusion a later start time would lead to more energized students, and improved academic performance by students.
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Although I would completely support the idea of a later start time, it is a fairly unachievable idea. If school were to start an hour later, we would have a 9 o'clock start time. This would be extremely inconvenient for the underclassmen who have parents that need to drive them to school and then go to work at a decent hour. This would also put the end of school an hour later. This would be extremely inconvenient for sporting events and practices that would have to occur an hour later. This would also mean that an early out at two, quite common for away sporting events, would cause a student to miss two periods of instruction instead of one. Science may say that the brain does not become fully activated until approximately 10 o'clock am, but without the complete overall of the entire private education system, it would be an impossible dream.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Severn should start school later because then the students would be well-rested and that would help them preform better in their academics.
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