jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoScience says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later?www.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down13
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minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI am having trouble finding results on both sides I did find on the for side that 9am is better than 8am but I’ve never known a place to start at 8am. On the for side the only empirical backing was that they need 8 hours of sleep but nothing saying that relates to start time
minus-squaremelppar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoFor what it’s worth, my high school started at 8 am. I was more asking if you had a source for the claim that teenagers would respond to the changes by staying up later. Also, here are a couple studies that suggest that later start times are beneficial: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/josh.12388, https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aau6200.
I am having trouble finding results on both sides
I did find on the for side that 9am is better than 8am but I’ve never known a place to start at 8am. On the for side the only empirical backing was that they need 8 hours of sleep but nothing saying that relates to start time
For what it’s worth, my high school started at 8 am. I was more asking if you had a source for the claim that teenagers would respond to the changes by staying up later. Also, here are a couple studies that suggest that later start times are beneficial: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/josh.12388, https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aau6200.