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Starting school later may improve teenagers' performance

  • 10-10-2014 4:04am
    #1
    Tom Dunne
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    It's all over the UK press this week about a school that pushed the daily start time out to 10:00am with impressive results.

    There is now a plan to trial it in over 100 schools. So, what do you think? Could it work in Ireland?


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  • #2
    RealJohn
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    I've heard about it. There might be some merit to it. If it becomes widespread across the water some Irish government will probably adopt it eventually and claim that everyone in Finland and/or Singapore does it ... PISA ... best international practice ...

    The unions will object but not actually fight it.


  • #3
    Inspector Coptoor
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    It would benefit teenagers as they're body clocks are different.

    It would really affect the teachers.

    I've become a real morning person the last couple of years, up at 6am and in bed by 10.


  • #4
    evolving_doors
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    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    It's all over the UK press this week about a school that pushed the daily start time out to 10:00am with impressive results.

    There is now a plan to trial it in over 100 schools. So, what do you think? Could it work in Ireland?

    Who's gonna whoosh them out the door if both parents are gone to work?
    might work for some schools with good transport options...

    presume teachers will still have to be in the same time to complete the fulfil the incoming paperwork culture.


  • #5
    doc_17
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    We used to start at 9.45 due to local factors. We switched to 9am a few years ago. Our leaving cert results have improve dramatically. This survey strikes me as one of those things that changes/improves just because someone is watching it.


  • #6
    evolving_doors
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    doc_17 wrote: »
    We used to start at 9.45 due to local factors. We switched to 9am a few years ago. Our leaving cert results have improve dramatically. This survey strikes me as one of those things that changes/improves just because someone is watching it.

    true indeed, same as the omega3 study done in schools in the UK (see Ben Goldacre analysis )... also I think there was a similar study on sipping water/improved concentration for students in schools...
    might be something in it... then again there might be something in getting students to balance phones on their ear for 10mins a day to improve grades.


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  • #7
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Inspector Coptoor wrote: »
    It would really affect the teachers.

    I've become a real morning person the last couple of years, up at 6am and in bed by 10.

    That's one of the first things that came to my mind when I read about this.
    Armelodie wrote: »
    true indeed, same as the omega3 study done in schools in the UK (see Ben Goldacre analysis )... also I think there was a similar study on sipping water/improved concentration for students in schools...
    might be something in it... then again there might be something in getting students to balance phones on their ear for 10mins a day to improve grades.

    If the research is done in a properly controlled manner, with clearly defined experimental parameters, issues such as those you outline above can be eliminated.


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