8th Grade Reading Quiz
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A school district tested "quiet start" mornings to reduce student stress. For one semester, three middle schools began the day with ten minutes of silent reading or journaling. Three similar schools kept their usual schedule. The district's research team compared attendance records and nurse visits. At the quiet-start schools, average tardies dropped from 14 per day to 9 per day. Nurse visits for headaches and stomachaches fell by 18% compared with the previous semester. In interviews, several teachers said the first period felt "less chaotic," but the report stresses that teacher opinions were not the main evidence. The team also noted limits. One quiet-start school already had a strong advisory program, and another had recently changed bus routes, which could have influenced tardies.
Which piece of evidence from the passage most directly supports the claim that quiet-start mornings improved students' physical well-being?
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