Later School Start For Teenagers Brings Drop In Absenteeism 436
krou writes "Monkseaton High School in North Tyneside, UK, began an experiment in October that saw its 800 pupils ranging in age from 13-19 attend school an hour later than normal, at 10am. Early results indicate that 'general absence has dropped by 8% and persistent absenteeism by 27%.' Head teacher Paul Kelley supported the idea because he believed that 'it was now medically established that it was better for teenagers to start their school day later in terms of their mental and physical health and how they learn better in the afternoon', and he now claims that the children are becoming 'happier better educated teenagers' as a result of the experiment. The experiment is being overseen by Oxford neuroscience professor Russell Foster. 'He performed memory tests on pupils at the school which suggested the more difficult lessons should take place in the afternoon. He said young people's body clocks may shift as they reach their teenage years — meaning they want to get up later not because they are lazy but because they are biologically programmed to do.'"
What About The Parents? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What About The Parents? (Score:5, Funny)
If you don't trust her with it why don't you take it from her? :p
Re:Monitoring students changes the outcome? (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:What About The Parents? (Score:4, Funny)
They don't get sarcasm? Oh, sorry - I was getting confused with yours.
Re:What About The Parents? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What About The Parents? (Score:5, Funny)
Who supervises them at 2am when the parents are sleeping? Why don't you start installing security cameras in their bedroom while you're at it? Oh, wait. [slashdot.org]
I already do, and the camera in my daughter's bedroom is a nice little earner on the internet.
Re:What About The Parents? (Score:2, Funny)
Daddy?
Re:What About The Parents? (Score:1, Funny)
my parents let me play outdoors
I've never heard of that MMORPG.
Re:What About The Parents? (Score:5, Funny)
And I certainly don't want to know that nun's don't have sex. That's half of my video collection ruined.
Re:Real World (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:2, Funny)
So, uphill both ways to your high school too, huh?
Whatever happened to coal mining? (Score:5, Funny)
Man, back in the good old days, when kids were ten, they went into the mills and the mines. Or on the ships. They were the ones that lit the fuses and ran because they were the smallest. They helped bring back lunch and stuff and they learned how to grow up to be real and hardy men. Now look at us.
Repeal child labor laws before this present moral degradation is too late! I'm building a toy coal mine for my four year old in my backyard! We're going to play Black Lung and Cave In.
Re:What About The Parents? (Score:5, Funny)
So don't delay!
Buy your kid a world of warcraft account today!
Don't forget (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wellington High School already does this (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I can totally understand this (Score:5, Funny)
In my teen and college years I would get up around 14-15 (that's 2-3 PM for you americans) on weekends and it took a lot of effort to go from my teenage 9-10:30 wakeup to getting up at 7 for some lectures in college, the only reason I pulled that off was because unlike HS it was actually subjects I wanted to learn about instead of random classes that someone else had decided I needed to take and which were often watered down to the point where there was little to nothing interesting left, as an example our HS biology class seemed to spend more time learning what the leaves of different trees looked like than anything useful (come on, I don't need to spend several hours in early-morning classes to learn how to identify birch trees, they're all over the place).
I don't normally nit-pick spelling and grammar, but what I quoted above from your post is one sentence. Please be kind to your readers and add proper punctuation! I actually tried to read that all in one breath. It didn't end well. ;-)
Re:I can totally understand this (Score:3, Funny)
I just figured it was because your English classes were in the morning.