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How a student helped Grants Pass High School decide to start classes later
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:14:32
Publish Date: 2023-06-14 17:29:52
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California law requires high schools outside of rural areas to start classes no earlier than 8:30 AM. No such law exists in Oregon, but human biology does not recognize state lines; teens can still be very sleepy early in the morning.

So Grants Pass High School has already decided to embrace the 8:30 start time for the next school year, giving students another 40 minutes to get awake and get to class. The major instigator is a student, Anika LaFrance-Hernandez, who researched the same studies California used to justify later start times.

We get the story of the process of changing from Aniko and GPHS Principal Ryan Thompson.

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