Provide Your Child With A “Late Start” And Give Him/Her A Learning Advantage

A growing number of schools in the US have started to revolt against the early start time model, beginning the school day at somewhat more biologically reasonable times.

One of the first test cases happened in the township of Edina, Minnesota.

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In the year before this time change, the average verbal SAT scores of the top-performing students was a very respectable 605.

The following year, after switching to an 8:30 a.m. start time, that score rose to an average 761 for the same top-tier bracket of students.

When the Mahtomedi School District of Minnesota pushed their school start time from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m., there was a 60 percent reduction in traffic accidents in drivers sixteen to eighteen years of age.

Teton County in Wyoming enacted an even more dramatic change in school start time, shifting from a 7:35 a.m. bell to a far more biologically reasonable one of 8:55 a.m.

The result was astonishing—a 70 percent reduction in traffic accidents in sixteen- to eighteen-year-old drivers.

Numerous counties in several US states have shifted the start of schools to a later hour and their students experienced significantly higher grade point averages.

Unsurprisingly, performance improvements were observed regardless of time of day; however, the most dramatic surges occurred in morning classes.

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