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KIMBERLY FORNEK AND "It gives them time to JENNIFER JOHNSON connect with their teachers, Pioneer Press connect with their friends or see people in student serv- Claire Buckley's day ices if need be," Bowen said. started before dawn. "They have time tot some Each morning, she would extra sleep. We are starring dress, gather her gear and to see some of the positive leave her Barrington home impact" to catch a6a.m. bus to her Many school districts, in- destination - not to a job in eluding officials with Him- downtown Chicago, but as a dale High School District86, freshman in high school. are assembling community "These days we're asking groups to study stress levels of our teens what very few among students. adults are required to do,' Hinsdale High School said Claire's mother, Melissa District86Superintendent Buckley. Bruce Law said parents and After watching her nor- students have been reaching mally guod-natured daugh- out to him about the issue ter return home from school telling him their academic each day exhausted, Melissa anxiety is having a negative Buckley joined a Barrington STACEY WESCOTr/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS impact High School advisory corn- Claire Buckley,16,a junior at Barrington High School, believes later start times have reduced her stress. "It clearly has struck a mittee that proposed a later nerve," Law said. start time for students. After Structural dents homework or projects Law cited national data nearly two years of tweak- during several schoolfrom the Yale Center for inthe school board ap- changes breaks,including home-Emotional Intelligence, in- proved the change last year, In addition to later startcoming weekend and theeluding a2015online survey and it took effect in August limes debuting this year atThanksgiving break,offi- of22,000high school sta- This school year, Claire is schoolsinArlington cials said.