Tons of studies show that later school starts are better for teen health.
“This is a public health issue,” Lisa S. Lewis, author of the booktold the. “As of now, California is the only one, but we are often a bellwether for other states.” Currently, New York and New Jersey are considering similar legislation, which has also shown positive results in smaller pilot programs around the country.
The extra time to catch some z’s is something that will also help teens in the long-run, experts say. “The effects of that one hour is something they will be feeling as 40-year-old adults,” Dr. Sumit Bhargava, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University, told. “When you give them the gift of increased sleep time, it is the biggest bang for the buck that you can think about.
This is why California’s codification of a later start time in public schools is a promising one. And hopefully one that more states will follow, given the mountains of evidence that show that teens who get 8-10 hours of sleep on the regular perform better in
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