31-01-2020 21:51 via sltrib.com

This Utah district will let high schoolers start class at 9 a.m.

This fall, Jordan School District will launch a first-of-its-kind program giving some high school students the choice to sleep in.Bethany Alston, a teacher at Riverton High who helped push for the initiative, joked that it can’t come soon enough. When she’s teaching first period biology, she’ll notice a student using a textbook as a pillow or a kid nodding off while she’s trying to explain osmosis.“They’re just too tired to learn in the morning,” Alston
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