Argumentative Essay: Later School Start Times

High school students are getting affected by their own school start time. High school students should get more sleep because it will help with mental health, grades, and driving. More teen car crashes happen when teens don’t get enough sleep. And that can also lower your grades by not being able to focus and not being able to keep track of the lesson. A lot or most teens turn to drugs when they get affected by not sleeping or bad grades. Their attitude may also change in a bad way. 

First of all not getting enough sleep can affect you in many ways but your mental health is most impacted. Getting more sleep can affect you positively, and one way is improving your health. By schools starting later, it helps teens get more sleep, so they won’t be sleep-deprived and stressed. Sleep-deprived teens tend to do drugs more than a regular student that gets enough sleep. Doing drugs messes up your mental health, by getting addicted or for long-term effects. Long-term effects can include lung disease, heart disease, and even mental illnesses. Also getting less than 9 hours of sleep can cause depression and diabetes. Even though not getting enough sleep can cause many other things besides tiredness, that’s only one reason to have schools start later. 

As a result of High Schools starting later the student's grades went up, and drug use lowered significantly. If the students have no reason to be tired, their grades will go up. That means more study time and more time to rest your brain. And you won’t fall asleep in class, and you'll be able to pay attention.  Studies also show that if teens can’t get up before 8 am, it comes with big academic consequences. The adolescent's inability to be fully awake before then is a matter of human biology, not a matter of attitude. Overall to help your grades you need sleep.  

Lastly, the rate of car crashes declined almost immediately after school started later. Teens were finally able to get the rest they needed to drive to school and focus on the road. Teen car crashes were also the primary death for teenagers. That shows that even just an hour or a little more can make a big difference. In Wyoming, in 2013 the teenage car crash rate dropped 70% in the first year. That is a significant rate to plummet in just a short amount of time. 

And finally to sum it all up, having a later High School start time helps High School students' mental health, grades, and driving. As shown, less sleep can make you tend to do drugs and decline your grades. Even getting into a car crash is more likely, with less rest. Getting your nightly rest is better for you than you know.