Yes!
How about they just get their butts to bed earlier?!?!
NO. BAD precedent.
Why not just send the teachers to their homes and let the kids stay in bed all day. These so called “pediatricians” have been spewing this garbage for years. Morons.
Back in the colonial days ... heck, back in the neolithic age, kids used to sleep in until their alarm clocks woke them at 9:00 AM or so. Then they would walk to school, uphill, through the snow.
Whatever happened to ‘early to bed, early to rise’?
There’s a joking second part to it that says “makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
Not that I have any kind of good circadian rhythm...
Got on the bus @ 7:00
I did just fine.
They won’t have to get up at the crack of dawn for their lunch shifts at McDonald’s when they graduate...
It is more coddling of the most coddled generation.
I don’t know,,, I kinda agree,,, When I lived in the dorm in high school. it really wasn’t much of a problem, although I was pretty lethargic in that first class of the day. In college, I had trouble with 8 o’clock classes.
IMO one of the purposes of being a teen is to prepare oneself for the adult world. Up early, have breakfast, get yourself out the door and to school at the same time working adults arrive at the job site. Student’s job is to go to school. Parents need to stand firm on no TV or video games during the school week, check to make sure homework is completed and have an early bedtime for all their kiddos. Tough duty but part of the responsibility of raising children.
Unfortunately too many parents pay little attention to their teens and left to their own resources, kids will stay in bed until half the day is over.
I have students arriving late to classes that start at 12 noon, saying, “I just got up, that’s why I’m late.” This is because they stay up half through the night playing video games, getting high, getting drunk, and wasting time in other ways.
With more than half of the country on welfare, maybe it makes sense for kids to start learning the (lazy) lifestyle early.
My Junior High had double session as they were building a new wing and didn’t have room for everyone at once.
I went 7am to Noon and my sister, a year ahead, went 1 pm to 6pm.
I had to get up at 5:30 to catch a 6 am bus as the busses had to make 2 runs to get all the students by 7. This was 1960-61.
No winey experts around then to worry about the effect on us.
I’m amazed that FReepers don’t realize that the human sleep/wake cycle operates differently at different stages of life.
Noon is too early for some undisciplined punks.
Just keep catering to them and they’ll grow up just fine.....
homeschool ping
My sister use to regularly sleep 10-12 hours.
That’s more than enough.
I only sleep 6 hours or skip sleep.
8:30 is “later?”
we once were a nation of farmers....those families awoke well before dawn....of course, they didn’t stay up and pose for “selfies” play video games all night..
Whats wrong with gong to bed earlier ???