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Going a bit off topic here (since my kid is still in elementary), but I wish schools started later for more selfish reasons. Our kid naturally wakes up early but the Mrs. and I are night owls. We've been miserable since our kid started going to school. We've been trying to force ourselves to go to bed earlier than its natural to us, with varying degrees of success, but most weeks are spent half asleep most of the time because waking up at 7am just doesn't work for us. I can't wait for middle school when the kiddo will likely be old enough to wake up on her own, fix herself up and go catch the school bus.

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My parents were night owls, and so was I. Waking up before dawn was a nightmarish hell for me, all through junior high and high school.

I am, and mine is 7 years old. I have noticed a change in his morning routine that seems irreversible.

Previously he woke around 5am, but now it is after 7am every day.

As someone that is definitely not a morning person, I think I am starting to rub off.

Likewise for me. Upon starting college (and getting rid of morning classes), I found I slept better (and longer), had less migraines, and retained information better with less effort.

Same here. I surfed the internet and played computer games until 1 or 2 AM every night, and then spent a lot of time in junior high and high school nodding out in class.

I really learned almost nothing, which isn't the fault of my teachers or anyone else. I would have been better off in a radically less structured educational environment, something as simple as being put in a room alone with some books and an offline computer for 4 hours a day, with long breaks in between to exercise and socialize.

I have a pair of friends who met working third shift at a hospital. They got married and had 2 kids, who are 5 and 7 respectively now. It's still hard for them, one has moved to days out of necessity, but they both still function best as night people.

Kids seem to be normal enough and adapting. If anything, they're a little more independent than most kids that age I've met in the city.

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