🍺 PUB TEST: Should The School Start Time Be Pushed Back?

Does pushing back the school start time pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Down to the Jenesy demand of arms to the pub test.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Pushing back school smart start time does it pass the
pub test?

Speaker 4 (00:10):
This has been a four year study in the UK.
They pushed the start time for thirteen to sixteen year
olds from eight fifty to ten am and in that
time they saw a dramatic drop in student absences due
to illness of a fifty percent fewer sick days. And
they said that children or kids did better in exams
and were able to focus better. When they went back
to the old start time, the results went back to

(00:33):
where they had been because they said, during these hours
there's a natural shift in the teenager's brain that makes
it half for them to go to sleep early and
half for them to wake up. So they're adjusting to
how that teen brain is working. So what do you
think pushing back school start times does it pass the
pub test?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'd say no, it doesn't because people have to get
to work, so I would rather stay at their normal
time of nine o'clock.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Now I don't pass the pub test. When I was
showing up, you stat at eight point thirty in high
school ninety seen year primary and we come home, we
had a great hot chocolate. So therefore as children who'd
actually enjoy ourself. Yes, because it gives you a chance
to spend more time because of the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well it would if we had buses that are do
the right thing. Our bustupis the ones that make out
still start the time they start. So some of us
start at eight, some of a start at nine. It's
all stewards the buses.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, it doesn't pass the pub test, unfortunately, because s's
an expectation that for anyone that wants to move forward
in life, we're just going to adapt to what they
want to do, opposed to what society is dictated, which
is what we should be running by. Yeah, right on,
We're going to take on the Turk at seven seven hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh no, no, I'm going to wait ten.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
But wouldn't you rather if we were Brendan and your
analogy taking on the Turk, that you were alert and
focused and at your best.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, understood, understood, We stay up a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Why would you do that? Why would you try and
stir me up on a Monday.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's just fun.