Will School Start Later?

Your alarm rings. You stretch, turn over, and hit the snooze button. Five minutes later, your alarm starts blaring again. You groan and cover your head with your pillow. What you would give for another half hour of sleep? This is a typical morning for many students at Day Creek and throughout the state of California. As students arrive at school, they are exhausted and could easily fall asleep before...

In a prior article, the Day Creek Howl investigated Senate Bill 328 regarding school beginning no earlier than 8:30am. However, the bill has been put on hold because there were not enough votes in the State Assembly. The California Teachers Association (C.T.A) published a recent mailer standing against this bill, arguing that the extension of time should be left up to each local school district. Seth B...

In this trilogy of articles, the possibility of school times beginning no later than 8:30 is looking pretty unlikely. Both the California Teachers Association (CTA) and the California School Board Association (CSBA) are strongly against Senate Bill 328. “The bill was a good idea. It’s not a good approach [because] state level doesn’t work. [It should be at the] local level instead [of] Sacrame...