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Columbia, Mo., school board announced they were considering moving Rock Bridge High School’s start time from 7:50 a.m. to 7:20 a.m., it was the last straw for sophomore Jilly Dos Santos. “I thought if that happens, I will die. I will drop out of school!” she said.
Jilly set up a Facebook page and a Twitter account to encourage her fellow students to show up at the school board meeting where the vote was taking place. With their help, she made hundreds of posters and flyers. Then, armed with a mountain of scientific research she and her friends had collected, she stood before the board and made the case against an earlier start time. It worked.
The school board abandoned the idea of beginning the day at 7:20 a.m. Jilly was not through, though. The next day, she started campaigning for an even later start time, and her persistence paid off. Eventually, the board voted 6 to 1 to ring the first bell more than an hour later, at 9 a.m.
Why do teenagers find it so hard to wake up early, and why are more and more school districts opting for later high school start times? It turns out the answer can be found in the chemistry of sleep.
Jilly set up a Facebook page and a Twitter account to encourage her fellow students to show up at the school board meeting where the vote was taking place. With their help, she made hundreds of posters and flyers. Then, armed with a mountain of scientific research she and her friends had collected, she stood before the board and made the case against an earlier start time. It worked.
The school board abandoned the idea of beginning the day at 7:20 a.m. Jilly was not through, though. The next day, she started campaigning for an even later start time, and her persistence paid off. Eventually, the board voted 6 to 1 to ring the first bell more than an hour later, at 9 a.m.
Why do teenagers find it so hard to wake up early, and why are more and more school districts opting for later high school start times? It turns out the answer can be found in the chemistry of sleep.
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