School Start

I never understand why schools start so early. The regular high school starts at 7:50 in the morning. My bus arrives at my house at 7:00 on the dot. Before I was pregnant, and still going to the high school I had to get up at 6:00. Now that I have a kid
I get up at 5:30, even though my school starts an hour and a half later.
I'm gonna be honest with you, my brain doesn't really wake up until about 9:00. So anything said before then, doesn't really matter. I know I'm not the only person who thinks like this either. There have actually been many studies that show that a later start would be better for us to learn. And let's face it, teachers don't want to be at the school that early either, not just the students. So when the teacher doesn't want to be there teaching, they're not going to be giving us the best they can, and when we're already not in a good time to learn, we need the best.

There have also been many studies that show that later starting schools have better average grades than other schools. The alternative school doesn't start until 8:30 for example, and there's not a single student here that has a grade lower than a C or if they do, it doesn't stay that way for long.

A common argument I hear with this, however, is that if we start later in school, then the schools will obviously have to end later. If that's true then extracurriculars will have to be pushed back, making it even later for kids to get home. That may be true but let's face it, it's not like the student would be going to sleep earlier regardless.
For example, let's push everything back an hour. The high school goes from 9-4 now instead of the 8-3 it's currently at. that means it's probably going to be 5:30-6 until kids get home now. instead of 4:30-5. Even though kids aren't getting home until 6, that's not a big deal. It's not like we were going to go to bed at 6 anyway. Most of us aren't going to bed before 10. So that still gives us 4 hours to do homework and chores. If you have to take more than 4 hours to do homework and chores, something needs to change in your schedule. Honestly, homework is ridiculous to me in itself. We go home to be home and do home things. We don't bring home stuff to school and do it. Like you don't see me doing my dishes in the school sink. So why should I do your work in my house? Why don't you time your class better instead of making me do work at home?

But whatever. My point is school needs to start later. I'm not the first to say this and I highly doubt I'll be the last.