School isn’t so easy and can be really tiring … shouldn’t we students deserve late days at least every Friday? A late day is a day when school starts later, at about 9:00 in the morning. Starting school later in the day will help students achieve better test scores, have less sleepy faces during class, and improve their academic performance.
Sleep is important to have, and it keeps you not as grumpy in the morning… wouldn’t you want to have a late day on Friday if it means you can get more sleep? Getting more sleep means that us students would be more energized for school, and we wouldn’t be half asleep in class! I have had some personal experience with getting up in the morning and it’s not too pretty! I always want to go back to sleep and …show more content…
Our memory is more clear, letting us get better test scores on math and reading better test scores… which mean improving grades!!! Education next proves my point, ”The results indicate that a one-hour delay in start time increases standardized test scores on both math and reading tests by roughly 3 percentile points.” This kind of change would really help students who don’t do so well on tests do better, so their parents would be more proud of them, and the school could say that the students are really smart and use that as an advertisement to hook more people to coming to the school so the teachers could make more money than they already do. The school that tried to do this experiment had some really cool results - they had more awake students, and more things could be done. Cbsnews tells about what happened, “While many parents and teachers at St. George's School were initially opposed to the idea of a later start timl, they reluctantly agreed to the study after a presentation by Owens, whose daughter was a junior at the school.” * I think the “timl” is supposed to be the word “time.”” Knowing that students aim to get great test scores, why didn’t we have later start times before to boost up our positivity for school …show more content…
Someone might argue with me and say that we already have minimum days on Mondays. Minimum Mondays or other minimum days only cut school time, so there is no effect on test scores or being more awake For it only cuts hours of schooling, not try to improve student learning. Later start days on Fridays, however, are there to help improve schooling and have a positive effect for students’ learning. Some Mondays aren’t even minimum days, and we work hard, too, so the later start days on Fridays will really help a lot. Someone might also say that we will be cutting our learning time, but we won’t need as much time to learn, and even though we have less time in school, it’s worth it, because we would be more productive than if we were half asleep. Also, we won’t learn much if we’re still sleepy and like a zombie during class, for sleepiness just keeps us from learning and having a sober mind so we can take in information that we might need for a test. The law also says something about this matter of time, it says that it is required for a student to have 175 days in school, and grades fourth through eighth must have 52,500 minutes in school for the year. To add, the law recommends two hours for language arts, and 50-60 minutes for math (this isn’t including homework). Even though we already have minimum days and you can argue with me that we wouldn’t get as much time to learn, if we have late start days on Fridays, and we