Students Get A Little More Shuteye

Remember the days of waking up and dragging yourself to school, just in time to make the homeroom bell at 7:20a.m.? Sure, you were tired, but by the end of the school year, you got a three-month vacation known as summer. Well, this is when Bostonist gets a little cranky and feels that the world is too easy on these kids nowadays. It seems that the Holyoke school system has decided to give their students a little more sleep and has moved the start time to 8:15 a.m. from 7:15a.m. The principal believes that this will cut down on tardiness and improve learning, since students were deemed as “underperforming” by the state in 2003. The school officials site a recent study stating that adolescents need at least 8 hours of sleep to function and often times, they don’t get that. Bostonist truly believes that one hour of sleep is not going to make that big of a difference; we were once teenagers and we could sleep until 2p.m. So far the Holyoke school system is the only one that jumped aboard this new schedule; Bostonist is curious to see if any other towns will let their teens get their beauty sleep.

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