It starts too early for teens’ sleep patterns, and ends too early for working parents. Does the country have to be stuck with it?
Just as a broken clock is right twice a day, once in a while, The Atlantic has an article with interesting ideas which just might be worthwhile in some ways.
And what about when kids used to live and work on a farm, should they just sleep till noon?
It should mirror the workday - 9am to 5pm, or 930am to 530pm.
The curse of the 24 hour day.
The curse of the sun rising so early in the morning.
And least they didn’t blame it on Trump, but I didn’t read the whole article so who knows.
End the public school experiment completely.
My teen’s natural sleep pattern apparently ends about 11:30am based on his Saturday schedule.
This is idiotic
My day starts at 530 and work at 7 am
Get used to it snowflake
Maybe kids still need to be home by 2:30 to do chores on the farm? :)
Curse of America's Illogical Schools
Well, if school went until 5PM at least we’d quit hearing calls for government-funded after school child care.
This again?
Maybe those sleepy teens should put down their phones and go to sleep at a decent hour.
“earlier than is ideal for their biological clocks”
I think mankind’s biological waking time is when it gets light out, regardless of clock time. We obviously can’t see in the dark and need to get as much done as possible (or at least before modern conveniences)
Get government completely out of the business of education, and let private schools set whatever hours they want.
School could formally start at 9:AM and end at 5:PM with optional “home room” classes from 8:AM to 9:AM and 5:PM to 6:PM, for doing homework and to match kids drop off and pick up times for when possible by parents, as needed. A kid who lives close enough to walk or ride a bike to school could skip the opptional home room classes. Teachers could rotate tbe responsibilities for the home room classses.
If the Center for American Progress is involved, I guarantee there is a very bad ulterior motive.
Yeah, back before we started having the living sh#t taxed out of our paychecks so that to have a family it took the labor of one parent to be the breadwinner and the other to pay the taxes. CAP sure as heck doesn't want to go back to the days one working parent was enough.
It’s no curse, and it has nothing to do with logic. Atlantic: dictionaries are cheap and enable people to find out what words mean.
This does not merit an article in the Atlantic.
As for going to bed at 11, and up early, the solution is “go to bed earlier!” simple, and doesn’t require an article in a pseudo-intellectual magazine. Stop trying to make wusses out of kids.
If a parent starts work at 7:30, but school doesn’t start until 10:00, unless there are other older children in the home, that parent is still going to have to wake the child at 6am to be dropped off at a before-school daycare. So how does that make sense for sleep schedules? Or the household budget?
In western culture, kids over 12 were expected to go straight home -and stay there- and spend their two+ afternoon hours supervising the younger kids, doing their homework and chores by the time the parents came home - or else the belt came out or allowances were dinged. Playtime was from the time parents came home until the dinner bell rang or the streetlights came on and only with kids on the block. “Social networks” were a non-starter. Keeping parents happy was more important than keeping superficial friends happy. And teachers worked to accomodate parents, preparing the children for a professional lifetime of getting up at 6am even if it meant going to bed at 9pm, instead of the other way around.
If teachers want a more elitist work day, perhaps they should change professions. Western culture is not raising fragile elitists, we are raising worker bees. Just like we did 100 years ago:
OBEY