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Reading this thread it appears high school in the US starts a lot earlier than in the UK.

Even the article states: "We show that a delay in the high school start times from 7:50 to 8:45 a.m. had several measurable benefits for students".

In my experience at least, high school in the UK doesn't start earlier than 9am and usually starts at 9:30am. End of day is about 3:30/4:00pm.

What's the reasoning for starting to early in the US?



The high school I teach at starts at 7:30 and ends at 2 pm.


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I'm not sure if its universal, but in my district the biggest reason - or at least the most often stated challenge to changing the times for high school - is that we have limited buses that service the high school first, then middle and then elementary.


My district uses that excuse, and the logical answer is to swap elementary and high school start times.

In my district the HS start is 7:20, middle at 8:05, elementary at 9:00.

Any parent will tell you 9:00 is a crazy late time of the morning for a kindergartener.


I would wonder whether anyone who willingly created such a backwards schedule could be fit to run a school, except I've met the people who run the public schools in this country...


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