editorial post ...4?

so..this weeks post comes (yet again) form the Washington POst online. this week it was kind enough to recognize little ol' Fairfax county and the radical movement to open school times a little later. According to the article, the group SLEEP has been, for the last five years, petitioning the schools to open one hour later, to save the poor children from their O SO GREULING SCHEDULES. well, other than the fact that the kids can get the hell over it and stop being babies, the group is finally getting somewhere. the county's schools are seriously reconsidering the school start time, and moving it in the high schools from 7:20 to 8:30. they cite the average teenager's need to have a good 7-8 hours of sleep each night for a variety of health reasons. the down side to this, that no one seems to be considering is that, while MAYBE getting people more sleep, it will RUIN THEIR LIVES. there will be no more swimming. internships will end. and the arts programs will be severly cut back. by starting schools later, all the county will be doing is cutting hours out of the day for kids to participate in after-school activities, usually the only part of school anyone actually enjoys. kids will get one more hour of sleep, or procrastination, or whatever (but most will still wake up at 3 am to finish papers like i have done every year since 7th grade) and just have one less hour in the day to get work done.
Parents will also suffer trying to adjust their work schedules to fit the new school schedules, something they probably can't afford to do right now, because they are too busy trying to keep their jobs in the current economy. THE END