New York, New Jersey and more are also mulling later starts
, happier and healthier students, lower substance abuse rates, less tardiness/absenteeism, and less drowsy driving.insufficient sleep in adolescents "an important public health issue."
"These kids are suffering every year, every kid, if we don’t do something," says Bert Mandelbaum of Princeton Nassau Pediatrics, who chairs a task force on adolescent health and school start times for the AAP's New Jersey chapter. Parents often lobby their local school districts for later start times — only to see their efforts fizzle amid opposition ."For so many people ... it doesn’t really hit home 'til you have teens," said Lisa L. Lewis, a parenting journalist in California whose work is credited with helping bring about the law there.
"This is biologically based," notes Lewis, author of "The Sleep-Deprived Teen." Kids are "not being lazy for not going to bed early," she adds."Parents who drop their children off for school will no longer be able to do so, since they will presumably have to be at work much earlier than their child’s new start time," he writes.
When school ends at 4:30, "not only is it almost dark in the winter months, but consider the plight of students who want to play sports, or act in the school play, or get involved in any number of activities," he says.The pandemic prompted lots of schools to start later in the morning, since commuting was eliminated — and that may smooth the way for more legislation like California's.
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