Part of school is to orient our youth to society. You start school early in the day and later in life the young adults will be able to show up for the start of work easier.
While 11am seems extreme I think having the start like 9 or so might be better, but, then again we have the coordination of getting kids to school and you to work in the same time frame then.
It doesn't work that way. Circadian rhythms are regulated by the PER3 gene. No amount of practice will convert someone from a late-riser into an early-riser.
The only benefit you might see from forcing those young adults to get up before they are ready to wake up during their school years is that you might condition them to see their hours of morning grogginess as normal and reduce the psychological distress they might otherwise feel when considering the prospect of going through that experience every work day for year after year with no prospect of relief.
Completely agree with this. I spent most of my youth in an extremely tired state. Up at 7 to be in school for 9. I doubt I ever really learned anything useful until after 11am. By 4pm I was shattered, then had to go home and do sports / homework until 8-9pm. At the weekend atleast at one of the days was spent sleeping in, purely because I was so unnecessarily wrecked by the stupid school hours.
Fast forward and these days, since setting up my own company, I rarely start properly working until 11am. By that time I'm not exhausted getting up and am ready to be immediately productive.
So what about adjusting to societies (stupid) rules at such an early age - most people are not morning people anyway. School is supposed to be about learning and productivity, so why are we making it part of the "hours just for the sake of it / that's how it's always been done" problem?
School hours are basically currently set as it's a form of childcare but parents are working all kinds of hours these days - why should schools be different?
Certainly the adolescents should start later. The problem I saw in Montgomery County, Maryland, is that the first bus pick-up times are in the dark for much of the year. The county reasonably thinks it better to have a crowd of 15 to 18-year-olds on the corner in the dark than a bunch of 5 to 10-year-olds.
Same deal for Howard County, MD. We had to get up at 6 to be on the bus by 6:30, and it was pitch black outside in the winter months. Luckily I had an forty-minute bus ride, which provided the opportunity for some extra rest.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 49.1 ms ] threadWhile 11am seems extreme I think having the start like 9 or so might be better, but, then again we have the coordination of getting kids to school and you to work in the same time frame then.
Also, conditioning yourself to wake up at a certain time... your body doesn't work that way.
The only benefit you might see from forcing those young adults to get up before they are ready to wake up during their school years is that you might condition them to see their hours of morning grogginess as normal and reduce the psychological distress they might otherwise feel when considering the prospect of going through that experience every work day for year after year with no prospect of relief.
Fast forward and these days, since setting up my own company, I rarely start properly working until 11am. By that time I'm not exhausted getting up and am ready to be immediately productive.
So what about adjusting to societies (stupid) rules at such an early age - most people are not morning people anyway. School is supposed to be about learning and productivity, so why are we making it part of the "hours just for the sake of it / that's how it's always been done" problem?
School hours are basically currently set as it's a form of childcare but parents are working all kinds of hours these days - why should schools be different?