Why can't school be at night?

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Why can't school be at night? Then we wouldn't have to get up early every day and go to class tired and unready to learn.

I was thinking the exact same thing the other week.

It makes so much sense.

Your perception of early is relative to the sleep schedule that you have adjusted to.

If you would like for school to be the last thing that you do in your day, then end your day with school. Go to sleep after school and start your day at whatever time that would cause for you to be waking up at.

For example: If school ends at 3:30p, then be in bed by 4:30p. Now your day can start around 1:00a.

The rest of society isn't like that, I mean for them to actually move school to night.

there are night schools

I mean public schools.

I used to think this, all the way until I graduated from high school. I am a night person, to such an extent that when I had to take really important tests (like the national ones), my Mom would let me stay home until after the test was over and she would write out a note saying I had been sick. That way, I could take the tests as make-up in the afternoons, after school was over. Had I been forced to take those tests when they were originally scheduled, I would have scored far lower than I scored by taking them in the afternoon.

I said I'm a night person and this is true because by nature I am and always have been. However, there was something else that was going on too: both of my parents were alcoholics and sometimes it wasn't safe for me to go to sleep until dawn because I had to protect not only me, but my little sister and (sometimes) my Mom, if it was my Dad who was out of control that night. Once the sky started to lighten outside, both of my parents would have passed out, and I knew that everybody was in no further danger--that day, anyway. So even if I hadn't been a night person, I would only have had maybe an hour of sleep on those nights anyway, so the result would have been the same. After I became an adult I read that children of alcoholics (like Suzanne Somers, the actress) often don't sleep at night because of the same reasons, and so they usually have serious problems with normal school schedules because they never get enough sleep to achieve their academic potentials.

I don't know if it's still true or not, but I read that at one time the public school system in Las Vegas, in some schools, had "regular" night classes for the kids of people who worked in the round-the-clock casinos, etc. So at least at that time, kids could go to a "normal" school at their "normal" hours: at night!

Exactly, it's a great idea but it won't happen because schools don't like change, because they don't have to. Their have no competition.

I'm a night person by nature, as well. I like being the only one in the house who isn't asleep, because then I know that nobody is going to burst into my room (I hate that because the noise of the door slamming open without warning makes my head hurt). There's just peace and silence.

Exactly, when people just burst in at night it scares me. Sometimes my little brother will do that just to be annoying. He's 12. Hasn't done it lately but still.

I wish i could actually attend a night school. I would like it to start at about 10pm during the summer and 7 or 8pm during winter. I hate waking up early and tired and not read to learn to a place I don't want to go to everyday.

I wish there were night schools too, think I would have done a lot better if there was

Does your school district offer any online courses or have any ties to nearby universities or community colleges? The school district my son attends is making a big push to develope online courses and get all high school students to take a college course or two. We are fortunate to live in a city that has two public universities and a good communtiy college that has very strong technical programs. The reason for this is that it drastically reduces the public schools overhead and not all students do well in a traditional environment.

Yep... I only wish I can do everything at night too! My hometown's schools are so rigid, only set everything in the morning! I hate it man.

I'm more awake at night But I would hate if they decided to change it now, but I love having things at the same time all the time.