Dr. Michael Grandner

My colleague, Wendy Troxell, she has a fantastic Ted talk on this on school start times.

It's just, it's wherever you look, you know, when you delay school start times, you improve everything, not just academics.

Why do you think kids are so sleepy?

Why do you think teenagers are falling asleep?

You know,

All these ADHD diagnoses, how many of them are just sleep deprivation?

You know, mental health problems, depression and anxiety.

How much of it is just insufficient sleep and circadian phase shifting?

So like you can actually improve these outcomes by getting kids at a time that actually works for them.

So there's that.

So yes.

Part of this is we live in a world mostly designed by old people who make all the rules.

You know, if you look at who's in, who's in Congress, who's making all this legislation, it's not 20 year olds.

And they weigh, they're like, I wake up at five, six in the morning, just fine.

You know?

So what's your problem?

You're just lazy.

You know, like, I'm not saying they say that.

I'm just that we live in the society of like what early to bed early to rise.

Well, it's nice if you're 60.