The thing about sleep is, it's not a factual, hard science thing. Different people need different amounts. Different people feel better waking up at different t

The thing about sleep is, it's not a factual, hard science thing. Different people need different amounts. Different people feel better waking up at different times. Having a schedule and sticking to it makes you feel more refreshed. Hell, some people barely sleep and seem to be fine. Personally, I can sleep 8 hours and still feel like crap having to wake up at 8AM. If I can sleep till 10, I wake up much more refreshed and immediately ready to start working. In my mind, the only ideal solution for kids is a much more flexible schooling system that runs from the earlier hours to the later ones. Students would be able to select their classes (there's never THAT many in grade school) based on times that are convenient for their mental health and living arrangements. So Suzy could wake up and start classes at 8 and go home at 3, while John, who like me hates early mornings, could start classes at 10 and go home at 5. Of course, a bunch of organizational problems come up and let's not forget that anything run by the government is dreadfully inefficient, but in an ideal world, I think this kind of system would work.