A bill in Florida would create mandatory minimum start times for all public schools.
During puberty, adolescents get tired later at night and need to sleep in more, per the CDC.found that 73% of high school students across 30 states were getting less than eight hours of sleep a night.Miami-Dade Public Schools, high school classes begin at 7:20am. Middle school doesn't start until 9:10am.What they're saying:
"Chronic sleep loss has a wide range of negative impacts to students with regard to physical and mental health, safety, and academic achievement, and there is a substantial body of research to demonstrate that delaying school start times is an effective countermeasure," Sen. Danny Burgess , who filed the bill, tells Axios in an email.Students shouldn't get their snooze buttons ready just yet. If the bill passes, the new start times would begin in 2026.
The district's proposal would have pushed back elementary school start times to 8am so that middle and high schools could start after 8:30amThe district conducted a pilot program with the proposed bell-time changes and is still reviewing feedback from the experiment, the spokesperson says.As a parent of a teenager, I support a shift in the school day.Even with a good night's sleep, it's still a struggle for my middle schooler to catch the 6:45am bus .
On days I can't run him to extracurricular activities, he's an electronics-addicted zombie between 3:30 and dinnertime.
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