How Early is Too Early to Head to Class?

In October, Terra Snider posted an opinion piece on Severna Park Patch asking her neighbors to sign a petition to push back the time that students had to start school.

Citing information from National Sleep Foundation about adolescents, sleep and health, asking the Obama Administration to “promote legislation to prevent public schools from starting earlier than 8 a.m.” 

Snider emailed Ellicott City Patch because, she said, she received signatures from parents in this area. She has since started a new petition, and wanted to share the information with our readers.

Her original article appears  find an updated article, with a link to her most recent petition, .