Anyone who has lived with teenagers knows their prodigious capacity for slumber.
Those hours in a deep sleep help adolescents contend with the many changes their bodies and minds are undergoing, and some have argued for years that early school starts put them at a deficit when the day begins and set them up for struggles longer term.
That’s why we are glad to see the East Baton Rouge Parish School system expanding later start times for middle and high schools in a bid to reduce absenteeism, truancy and low scores…