► Dr. Maida Chen, director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center at Seattle Children’s
► Manuela Slye, co-vice president, Seattle Council PTSA
► Chetan Soni, junior, Lincoln High School
What is the ideal time to start school each day?
► MC: I think from a scientific and a medical standpoint, the decisions that were implemented in 2017, to push high schools back and elementary schools earlier, were based on a fair amount of robust science—more than one study and actually fairly big policies put out by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Sleep Medicine and the CDC that all recommended secondary school start after 8:30.
But what is a little less clear: There is a paucity of data
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