Tuesday. While most high schoolers around the nation have to drag themselves out of bed at the usual time on this fateful day of the week, MV students are left with a small slice of paradise that is that one extra hour of sleep.

Now imagine that we had access to this opportunity every single day of the week. Fantastic, right? Maybe at first glance, but a peek under the covers finds many more potential problems than most of us would initially think of.

Don’t get me wrong, of course there could be potential benefits. Many students believe that they would be more well-rested if given the chance to sleep in a few extra hours each day. Some procrastinators note that this policy would allow more time for homework to be completed in that sunrise rush the day it’s due.

Unfortunately, this would likely bring much more trouble than benefits to our nation’s schools.

According to the National Sleep Foundation, American teenagers require about 9 and ¼ hours of sleep a night, yet only 8 percent of them are getting it. This sleep-deprived generation would only worsen as homework time would be pushed back further into the night. Granted, while for most high schoolers this number is a bit unrealistic, forcing homework time to go later would only exacerbate the problem.

Sophomore Jay Patel feels that he wouldn’t benefit at all from a later start, as he feels that Monte Vista already starts late enough.

“When i went to my old high school, I had to wake up at 5:00 am every day for school,” Patel said. “Also, this would create issues such as kids blowing off school, and procrastinating.”

Knowing that they have extra time in the morning would fool teens into thinking that they could get away with staying up a few extra hours, which is completely defeating the purpose of the proposed idea.

In addition, after school activities would get pushed back later into the night, causing potential problems for sports teams and other outdoor activities that would have to compete with the setting sun.

Each student dreams of a long night sleep, but the reality is that if given the opportunity for a later school day, students would eventually fall right back into the same pattern they’re stuck in now, only with a few extra hours of daylight gone to waste.