[DisposableMike]

I actually went to a school corporation where this happened, about 20 years ago. I was in high school. School started at 7:38. We got up around 5:30, boarded the bus at 6:05, arrived to school at 7:00. Elementary school started at 8:55, with a similar length bus pre-schedule.

Our corporation hired a firm to do a study, found that younger children performed much better during earlier hours, and flipped the schedules. The next year, the high school started at 8:50, and the elementary school at 7:45, and the schedules have been essential unchanged since. I can't describe how much of a difference that 1.5 hours made to a 16-year old.

As a father of 3 young children, they rarely sleep past when I have to wake them for school anyway. The same is definitely not true of teenagers.

[icsllaf]

Makes a little more sense in the parent's position as well. An argument that is normally made to stop school start times from being set later is that the parents have jobs which require them to normally wake up the same time as their kids. Elementary school children obviously need this parental help in the morning much more than high school students who can even possibly get to school by themselves by driving or simply being self-sufficient enough to walk to the bus stop.