ROCHESTER, N.Y. — High school start times vary for districts across the country between 7-9:30 a.m. That’s an early wake-up call for anyone, but teenagers are especially affected.
“I get on the bus at like, 6:40, but I gotta leave at like 6:30 because my bus stops down the street,” said Mason White, a junior at Fairport High School.
He and his sister, Emma White, are waiting to get on the bus before the sun comes up every morning for most of the school year.
“A lot of people I know go to sleep at like 1:30 a.m. and get up four hours later. I just don’t know how to do it,” Mason explained. “Waking up every morning. It’s a grind. Like it’s … I have to almost shine a flashlight on my phone to my face. It’s really, really difficult.”
“Literally every day. I hate waking up. It takes …