Well, I did, but then again i had to be at school by 7:00 and it took me an hour or so to get ready (i would wake up at 6)

it just depends on the child’s time management.

I’m a sohpomore in High School and I wake up at 6 every morning, school starts at 7:30. I shower at night and eat breakfast, do hair/makeup, and get dressed in the morning. I know people (mostly female) who wake up much earilier at hours like 5 to shower and get ready in the morning. Then I know people who can wake up a 6:30 and be ready to go to school. It also depends on the method of transportation. I drive to school so i leave around 7:10 to arrive and 7:20 and have an additional 10 minutes before class begins. However, students who take the bus are required to leave anywhere from 6:30-6:55, depending on where you live in town. I personally think school shouldnt start until 9 or so. High school students usually stay up later because of sports, clubs, and homework, so we would have more time to sleep and be rested for the next day.

Most of the time it’s girls getting up at five or four in the morning to take showers and style their hair or put on makeup.

I get up at about 6:00 or 6:45, depending on different things, like whether or not I took a shower the night before, so I’ll take a shower in the morning instead.

However, the only reason highschool and junior high kids have to get up early, is so we can start earlier, which gives teachers more time to teach.

But I know that first period I was always half asleep, and I actually ended up nearly failing that class because I couldn’t remember anything.

A few kids have done projects on how we should change the starting time for schools to something closer to elementary schools, because there are so many of us staying up late to finish the homework we get (which can take from the time I get home from school until about nine, if I remember to start it early).

Apparently, teens need more sleep, but because they need to arrange bus schedules and they’re teaching harder things than subtraction or addition, it’s either start school earlier, or get out of school later.

I’m entering high school this year. Although my school starts at 8:00 and I only live 15 minutes away from school, my bus comes at 7:15. This is because I live on the other side of town (and there’s only one public high school) so they combine the middle and high school buses. The middle schoolers get dropped off at 7:25 (but the school is locked until 7:40.) High schoolers get dropped off at 7:30 (but are allowed in the school.) Because of this, I generally don’t have time to shower in the morning – I shower at night, instead. Yet I still have to get up between 6:00 and 6:30, depending on several factors – if I have an outfit picked out or not, if I’m leaving my hair natural or if I’m straightening it, curling it, etc…

I don’t think it really matters. I lived 10 minutes away from the school but had to get on the bus at 6:15. School started at 7:55 and i didn’t get home from after school activites until 5:30 and then sometimes had to go to work until 11pm or later. I usually woke up around 5:45 and was still getting dressed when I was running out of the house. I just took naps on the way to school and on the way home. I was fine with little sleep back then.

Kids’ “day clocks” are much different than adults’. There’ve been studies done to prove this — even for each age level — but it should be obvious anyway.

Little ones (elementary age) get up early and (should) go to bed earlier. That’s natural for them.

Teenagers however need more sleep for their bodies at that stage, and they tend to stay up later at night, and need to sleep later in the morning than everyone else. This is biological. Later as adults, we are able to sleep less and function better at earlier hours.

So why then do we have it all backwards for when kids start school in the morning? Pre-School and Elementary children should be starting earlier in the morning. Junior High and especially High School age kids should be starting their school days much later! Why do they keep pushing it earlier and earlier, I will never understand. The writing’s BEEN on the wall for a long time. And when the kids are at school at the most suitable times by age, they will be more alert, able to function better, and therefore able to LEARN better.

why should we have to get up earlier? unless there is logic to this madness i don’t understand lol. It relay depends on where and how far your school is, and if you have any activities like sports that require you to get there early then sure. But If You live 10 seconds away from your school and it starts at 9:00 there is no point stressing yourself out waking up at 6:00 just to do it. I think somewhere i heard that the more sleep you get the better. I wake up at around 7:00 &:30 because i dont have to travel that far to get to school.

I’m going in to 9Th grade and we have to be there by 9:00am. Kid should get at least 9 hours and 10 if they’re doing sports. After sports you have homework and that going to be atleast 2-3 hours depending on the level of the class your taking. I get off of football between 7-8 and schools over at 4:15 after both of those I exhausted. By the time I’m done with my work its 11 or so. Getting up at 6:30 is just making the kid less productive and its bad on their body.

NO! Studies have shown that kids around that age aren’t actually fully awake until MUCH later in the day. Thats why everyone wants easy classes early on in the day. When you get to the college level and out in the work force, your biological clock is set to wake up earlier, but NOT in high school. You basically waste 3 full hours after you wake up until you are ready to start school. If schools started later, kids might actually learn something. But instead, kids fall asleep in class, need to pick up a caffeine addiction in order to stay awake, act out in class and a whole lot of other things because they are just tired. If you had to wake up so many hours before you should, you wouldn’t have the energy to be focused all day.

As for the argument about needing to get used to the real world… oh please. Now, most people are going to college where nothing could be farther from the real world. People plan their schedules so that they don’t need to wake up before noon so they can get drunk the night before. If anything we should make college starting times strict because thats right before you actually go to the real world.

No, not even on heat schedule week.. we should all have to get up at 7.. 5:30 is my time to get up for the first 2 weeks off school since we have to start school at 6:30 or so… Thats just my opinion though