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© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.To improve kids' mental health, some U.S. schools start later
By BROOKE SCHULTZ DREXEL HILL, Pa©2023 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ian
Metal detectors might help also
englisc aspyrgend
Not fearing daily that some nutter with a gun might slaughter them would no doubt improve their mental health.
wallace
Too many school children have been senselessly slaughtered in mass murders. No wonder the kids are stressed. Their mental health could be improved with sensible gun laws.
Protect children, not guns.
CarlosTakanakana
Good for them. I wonder how long this will take to catch on here?
Dave
The school day still ends by 3 p.m.......HaHa, I knew it!
Dave
I just wonder if kids will stay up later? No, No Way
Aly Rustom
sometime in the next century
Aly Rustom
What would really be cool is a flex schedule where students can pick and choose between studying remotely, going to school full time, and a combination of both .
ian
At least they can pray before going to school now.
Vreth
School days do not need to go for any longer than 3 or 4 hours and even that is pushing it. Anyone that has worked in a school will tell you that kids and teachers run out of gas by then. A few classes and then some sort of after school program that teaches practical skills would be so much better. Imagine doing English, Maths, Science and then spending the afternoon learning how to maintain a car or grow vegetables.
ian
Not to mention the parents'
albaleo
Is that not from one extreme to another? I didn't realize US schools started so early. At 7:30, the only thing a kid should be learning is how to make toast.
Sven Asai
So it’s nowadays only from 9.45am to 3pm…lol Considering weapons check and other bag controls, walking to the classrooms, breaks between lessons and the long lunch break and to get those hyperactive Einsteins a bit calmer or silenced at the beginning of every lesson, the effective time for trying to teach becomes nearly the same as the time of their not learning anything, namely and exactly zero.
purple_depressed_bacon
There is no rhyme or reason for schools to start before 9am. Kids need a good chunk of sleep to be productive and forcing them up unnecessarily early is just counterproductive.
Desert Tortoise
I don't see the point. We are working parents. We work 9 hour workdays most days, plus a half hour for lunch. The kid is taken to a morning program at his school on our way to work and the attends an after school program that runs till 5:00pm. We pick him up on the way home. Starting "school" at 9:00am or 9:45am is meaningless.
TokyoLiving
Mental health is the thing that least exists in good old US..
TaiwanIsNotChina
A nonsensical statement. The US may have 20% more suicides than Japan, but it is 50% less than South Korea or Russia.
TaiwanIsNotChina
If the kids can take the bus or walk to school, I don't see the harm in starting early. It means they finish early, too, and can do things after school. Maybe starting later improves the parent's mental health, though.