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Let's be real. Asking our teenagers to be at their best at 7am is just not going to happen, even if they go to bed at 10pm. Their body clocks just aren't set for that schedule. Of course they will need to adapt, but they will be more able to do this as they enter adulthood and have more adult-like body clocks. In the meantime, I think it's a reasonable step to move the start of the academic day to 8 am.
 It may not seem like much, but it would certainly help a lot of teens.[/quote]

What time do you think these pre-adults got up in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century?  Who worked the farms in the agrarian era?  Let's get real, the phenomenon of teenagers getting up past 8 am is a recent phenomenon of the idle rich.  They represent a very small aliquot of the billions upon billions of adolescent who work jobs before ... and after returning from school.

Your recommendation may apply for listless, lazy and idle adolescent who have nothing to do but enjoy school and wonderful extracurricular activities.  It does not seem to apply to the majority of adolescents around the globe.

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