New South Wales recently announced it would trial different start and finish times for various year levels in primary schools. There are many benefits to this approach.
Their hormones mean they still need zzz’s even when they’re already supposed to be in homeroom.
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Teenagers aren’t just lazy. Their sleep hormones aren’t calibrated to let them get up and go until later in the morning – which has academic and health consequences when school starts too early.
Sleep deprivation in teenagers as a result of early morning school starts has been a topic of much debate. There’s more to this issue than just laziness.
What difference will the time of the test make?
Shannan Muskopf