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Area High School Adopts Late Start To Let The Kids Sleep In

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Classes will start 25 minutes later next year at one northern Illinois school. That’s so students have more time to sleep.

The Stevenson High School board approved the change, and it will take effect in August 2016. The Lincolnshire school's day will begin at 8:30 a.m. instead of 8:05 a.m.

Classes and passing periods will be shortened, because the school day will still end at 3:25 p.m.

Principal Troy Gobble cited an American Academy of Pediatrics study that warns against starting classes before 8:30 a.m. He also said a survey showed most Stevenson students don't go to bed until after 11 p.m. on weeknights.

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