Sometimes early risers don't catch the worm... While some may worry that postponing the school day could get in the way of after-school sports and work, I believe school should start later in the morning. First, it will improve students' academic performance. Secondly, it will help students stay alert and focused in class. Ultimately, it will help reduce lateness and dropout rates. Today it is scientifically proven that teenagers sleep late and are particularly difficult to wake up. Lack of sleep can prove disastrous for anyone's health. Starting to lose sleep at an early age could have serious consequences. I believe that delaying the school day by two hours or so will have a positive effect on students' academic performance. Throughout our generation, there have been countless teenagers who have found themselves suffering from sleep deprivation. The intervention study demonstrated that delaying school start times had the effect of increasing sleep duration and decreasing daytime sleepiness (Joseph A. Buckhalt). In other words, adolescent sleep patterns can have overwhelming results, either way, for the education of all students. If the school days were postponed to reasonable times, the expansion of children would be more careful. Their grades would get as bad as they do today because they would be more focused on what happens in class and what needs to be done instead of sleepy; about to fall into the chair. New evidence suggests that a later start to the school day could result in numerous benefits, such as better grades and fewer traffic accidents (Gonchar, 2014). Not only would it help students get higher grades, but it would also help improve the mood of many. Lack of sleep... half the paper... stop these things from happening. It would even prevent students from sleeping late. Moving high school start times fifty minutes later, from 7:25 to 8:15, would be good for most students, so they can still wake up on time, eat breakfast, and get ready without feeling rushed. The impact of later start times on academic performance, including reduced truancy, absenteeism, and increases in overall academic achievement, is approximately double in economically disadvantaged students (Start School Later Movement). It's unfair to expect students to be in school, ready to learn, when the internal workings of their bodies tell them they shouldn't be getting up yet. That's why I believe schools should consider starting later in the morning so as to improve academic performance, help increase attention and ultimately reduce tardiness and dropout rates..