Science says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later?

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I've only seen it the other way around, though. Elementary starts first around 7:30 am, middle school at 8 and high school 8:30.

Good God! 7.30!

9am start here for more or less everything, give or take 10 minutes (Ireland).

My preschooler is 9.30.

We had four high schools in our city that used the school buses.

One started at 7, two started around 7:30ish, the fourth started around 8:30.

I was in the 8:30 school. We didn't like it because we didn't get out until 3:30, so all of the other high schools had been out for over an hour at that point. It was a point of rivalry contention between schools.