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> mandate that schools start earlier You know it's bad for teenager health? http://www.nj.com/education/2014/05/early_class_times_are_bad_for_teenaged_student
by arkh 9y ago
> mandate that schools start earlier
You know it's bad for teenager health?
http://www.nj.com/education/2014/05/early_class_times_are_bad_for_teenaged_students_british_researcher_finds.html http://www.nj.com/education/2014/05/early_class_times_are_ba...
> Because their biological clocks push them into later sleep/later wake patterns, adolescents on average lose almost 3 hours a sleep on school days, the researchers found. In addition, they found that middle school students who start later in the morning had “clear test gains” over their peers.
- dorfsmay 9y agoThat's a different problem though... So we could still society to start earlier (assuming it's a good thing, less car accidents etc...), but re-think the concept of the school day. Just making school start later but keeping as long, so finish later might not be a good solution for lots of reasons (don't want to go into this here, this is a different discussion).
- andrewla 9y agoThe GP does not propose that teenagers wake up any earlier in the sense of solar time, just that we don't change the clocks. Right now they wake up an hour earlier than they did the previous day, the only difference is that their clock shows the same hour as it did the previous day. Instead, they should just wake up an hour earlier and have the clock show that they woke up an hour earlier. There's no actual difference in the amount of sleep or daylight that the teenagers get, just a vastly simplified system for figuring out what they wall clock should say.
- mal808 9y agonot if the whole day shifts permanently, it's like moving timezone, not starting your day earlier.