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Starting Schools later
Could starting school an hour later result in better
attendance, better performance, and less depression among
students? Well according to the Minnesota Medical
Association, who urges secondary schools to start later,
this is true. This is because making bodies secrete more
slowly the hormones needed to fall asleep and wake-up.
Teens are literally for a few years in another time zone. An
example of a school that switched to starting later are the
ones in Minnesota, where there school day starts at 10
a.m. Did this because teens sleeping patterns naturally want
them to sleep later and stay up later. Since the switch the
school has reported fewer discipline problems and less
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