Every day, the middle and high schoolers of the Gettysburg area school district receive terrible amounts of sleep. Due to the fact that they are teenagers, studies have shown their sleeping hormones get released further into the night (around 12 or later), which with the early starting hours of 7:25 that most kids end up getting roughly around 6-5 or even less hours of sleep. Just for these reasons, even the state of California banned opening middle schools before 8:00 and high schools before 8:30.

It has been shown time and time again sleep deprivation has a horrible effect on physical and mental health. This is especially dangerous for teens and greatly effects their performance in school too.

Many parents have reached out yet each time they have been ignored by the district. Sign this petition so we can have a stronger and more unified way to change the starting time of the middle and high school so the children can get a healthy amount of sleep!