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Teenagers are often described as lazy in the morning, but the biology says otherwise. During adolescence the body clock shifts later by one to two 1, so a teenager who goes to bed at ten will often lie awake until midnight. The same shift makes early waking genuinely painful rather than simply unwelcome. Schools, meanwhile, tend to start 2. In many countries the first lesson begins before eight, which means students are learning at the hour their bodies still expect to be 3. Studies of schools that moved the start time later report better attendance, fewer late arrivals, and modest gains in test scores. The change is harder to make than it sounds. School timetables are tied to bus routes, sports fields, and the working hours of parents, so moving the first lesson by an hour moves everything else with it. Some districts that tried it found the cost of extra bus runs difficult to justify. There is also a simpler objection. Critics point out that teenagers will simply go to bed 4 if school starts later. The evidence so far does not support that fear. In the schools studied, bedtimes stayed roughly the same and students 5 close to the full extra hour. Still, the debate continues, because a school day is not designed around sleep alone.