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HistoricalSubject t1_jd5e4bq wrote

Reply to comment by ThereAreDozensOfUs in Lower Merion again delays implementing later start times for high school — until 2024 by Dryheavemorning

if i was a student, i wouldn't want this. if i have to be in school for a MANDATORY amount of hours each day, i'd rather it be an hour earlier than an hour later. i'd rather be trapped and tired that first, earlier hour than trapped and antsy that last, later hour. i will be curious what the students think about this over the next few school years in schools that do the adjustment.

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sexy_wash_bucket t1_jd5lpvi wrote

Many studies show that being in school that early at high school age is materially bad for overall health.

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HectorsMascara t1_jd635px wrote

Getting up before sunrise virtually every day of high school is brutal.

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Callmedrexl t1_jd65643 wrote

Did you feel that way as a teenager?

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HistoricalSubject t1_jd74oy2 wrote

yea, thats why i said "if i was a student"

i understand im in the minority here, articles have come up about this before. i just wouldn't have wanted an hour taken from my afternoon. i had a job i loved, i had a band i practiced with, i had a social group. i would have an hour less of that if the schedule changed.

but like i mentioned, ill be curious to see how the students feel about it after a few school years in the schools that do implement it. maybe they will like it. or maybe there will be a "study" that determines that in the last hour of school, students are just as inattentive because of antsy teenage energy as they are inattentive in the morning because of sleep/waking up early.

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Pineapple_Spenstar t1_jd7dzz9 wrote

When I was in HS, twice per week my day started with morning swim practice at 6 AM. I would get home at about 6:30 PM. I definitely would not have wanted a later start time.

Spring was always great because I would be home by like 3. Actual start time for school was 7:35; it never bothered me, but maybe 10% of my classmates would complain

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shapu t1_jd69u8c wrote

I attended a high school where the first class started at 6:50. It sucked wet duck ass.

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HistoricalSubject t1_jd74fm9 wrote

whether youre there an hour earlier or an hour later, school always sucks. this isn't going to change that. i consider myself a leftist, but this type of stuff is just liberal pillow throwing. turn everyone into a soft fleshed amoeba that is guaranteed by scientific studies to be perpetually comfortable. then, once all resistance and discipline of the human spirit is extinguished, they'll start putting wires into our brains. comfort will then be programmed instead of legislated. utopia here we come!!

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shapu t1_jd7jvop wrote

There is a difference between school sucking because it is school, and school sucking because 16-year-old students have to be up at 5:45 in the morning to get there on time.

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mittenedkittens t1_jd7kbiq wrote

> i consider myself a leftist, but this type of stuff is just liberal pillow throwing

https://evidencebasedliving.human.cornell.edu/blog/the-evidence-on-kids-sleep-and-school-start-times/

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HistoricalSubject t1_jd9c14g wrote

thats just wire brain stuff

the human animal is fragile. but its not so fragile that we need to cater to every one of its modern weaknesses.

we didn't survive as a species for 300,000 years, colonize and inhabit the planet, endure a few ices ages and become the top of the food chain because our biological body just couldn't get up an hour earlier.

i understand i sound a little crazy. but that stuff is just tossing pillows to lay down and continue atrophying on IMO

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AbortedWalrusFetus t1_jd7o259 wrote

School was awesome and I loved learning and socializing. I was just cripplingly tired for more than half the day.

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