To improve kids' mental health, some U.S. schools start later

Metal detectors might help also

Not fearing daily that some nutter with a gun might slaughter them would no doubt improve their mental health.

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.

Good for them. I wonder how long this will take to catch on here?

The school day still ends by 3 p.m.......HaHa, I knew it!

I just wonder if kids will stay up later? No, No Way

Good for them. I wonder how long this will take to catch on here?

sometime in the next century

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 .

In the hours before he's due at Upper Darby High School, senior Khalid Doulat has time to say prayers,

At least they can pray before going to school now.

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.

Not fearing daily that some nutter with a gun might slaughter them would no doubt improve their mental health.

Not to mention the parents'

from a 7:30 a.m. start time to 9:45 a.m.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mental health is the thing that least exists in good old US..

Mental health is the thing that least exists in good old US..

A nonsensical statement. The US may have 20% more suicides than Japan, but it is 50% less than South Korea or Russia.

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.