Seattle Early Start Time To Affect Sleep | 
Wonderful insight by Maria Christensen at the Examiner into the changes by the school board in Seattle and how a cost-saving move may end up costing much more in the long run.
The School Board voted to change the start times of Seattle schools, the focus was more on cost-cutting and transportation than on the sleep schedules of teenagers, despite recent research on teen brains and sleep patterns
We highly recommend her article and the additional excerpts she found like the following:
In an article for ABC Science, Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki points out that when a “teenager says that they are not tired at 11 pm, they are usually being truthful.” That’s because circadian rhythms change during adolescence and teens need more sleep. Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki also states, “How much you sleep depends on your age. Newborn babies will sleep, in a series of naps, for 16-18 hours per day. By age 5, this is down to about 11 hours, and continues to drop with age – until puberty and adolescence start. Then sleeping time increases again.” What might be surprising is that adolescence lasts until around 19.5 years for women and 20.9 years for men.
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