I’ve always had to show up at 7:45 to be on time for my 8:00 job. Most jobs are 8 hours. 9-5 is only 7.
Many of those sleepy teens will end up in jobs that are the graveyard shift. And, horrors of horrors, jobs that cut into their weekends. Deal with it. That’s reality. Welcome to it.
That’s aok with me. I think school should be a full day, that’s all, with time built in to do homework. From the 9th grade onward, tt should mirror a full-time job as much as it could.
I am an attorney at a major law firm in NYC. The firm “opens for business” at 9:30am and “closes for business” at around 5:30pm. That’s the “workday” but many people come in earlier as needed and almost everybody stays significantly later, as needed.