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This seems crazy late. IIRC I had a 0-period class starting at 6:00am. Starting 2.5 hours later is surprising. If I were back in high school, all this would ha
by ar_lan 4y ago
This seems crazy late. IIRC I had a 0-period class starting at 6:00am. Starting 2.5 hours later is surprising.
If I were back in high school, all this would have told me is that I'm staying up until at least midnight, if not later. I was usually good about sleeping around 9:30pm which gave me roughly 9 hours sleep.
Since I assume this means school will end later in the day, this just means homework gets pushed much later too. My parents were very strict about homework being done the same day, so there's no chance I would have been able to keep my old schedule and do homework in the mornings.
I'm curious what the effect is on the average and median kids. This would have been incredibly annoying for me.
- khazhoux 4y ago> I had a 0-period class starting at 6:00am Your school admins were assholes. What unholy sadists would start school that early?? What country was this?
- veilrap 4y agoIn the US, I had similar (not quite as early) optional 0-period classes in high school that started around 6:45AM. It was awesome, small class sizes (because it was optional), interesting useful topics (Math and Philosophy). I'm happy my school admins made this available to us. I don't understand your rage.
- khazhoux 4y agoThe rage is because the commenter didn't say it was optional (I guess I've never heard of "0" period). The implication was that 6am was the standard at his school. But if anyone wants to get to school at the crack of dawn, have fun! Just don't impose that on those of us with different internal clocks.
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- ar_lan 4y agoThis was California.
- khazhoux 4y agoWow... so assuming 0-period was optional (per another commenter above), your first mandatory class was 7am every day? That's still insane for a school district to demand all kids and their parents to be up at 6am. Terribly inconsiderate.
- lttlrck 4y agoMadness. I had a 9am start from elementary through to university. In the UK. I'm in Southern California now. My kids middle school starts at 9... I'm glad High School will now be similar.
- collegeburner 4y agoFr lol all this will do is make kids less disciplined. They need to be forced to go to bed and get up early precisely because it is harder than getting up late and staying up late. Inertia says its easier to stay up late than get up early so since we need to put discipline into kids we should do the opposite. Kids will otherwise just stay up late watching TV and smoking marijuana.
- crooked-v 4y agoThere are plenty of people for whom 'discipline' will never be able to overcome the effects of teenagers literally having a different biological clock than either children or adults.
- closeparen 4y agoKids exercising this discipline have lower cognitive performance and more health problems.
- markovbot 4y agoI can't tell if this is satire or you're just peak boomer
- robswc 4y ago"Studies show" that kids will not stay up later. I don't have the time to really look into it but I guess I'll trust it for now. I know 100% that I wouldn't have been disciplined enough to go to sleep sooner though. I would always pretty much get as little sleep as I could function with because at that age, video games were more important, lol. But I don't want to extrapolate my experience, I'm sure most kids will adjust... but I can see a fair amount having even worse sleeping schedules.