Have you ever been sleep deprived from staying up late trying to study or finish major assignments for multiple classes? When you get to school you try to stay awake and keep your eyes open, but sitting in eight classes for fifty minutes straight does not help. Not only do you dread sitting eight hours in school, but if you participate in any extracurricular activities, like sports, you also have practices to go to afterschool. Your schedule is filled to the max, you are tired from practice, you might have chores to do, and that is not even including the time you take to do your homework. As a result, you must stay up late trying to finish your work, and every day the cycle repeats: stay up late doing work, sit in class and try to stay awake, go to …show more content…
Because these kids have so much work that needs to be done, they have no time to relax and take a break. Yes, you can say that that is their fault for choosing those classes that gives a lot of homework and expects a lot from them, but these kids want to have a better life for themselves. These kids want to go to college and have an amazing job that they love. They want to be able to say that they reached their goals, and they want to be an inspiration to many and show them that nothing is impossible. However, people need to understand that a student, who by the way is still a child with a developing brain, can only take so much. Students should not be developing mental illnesses at young ages, they should be having fun and making memories. “As this negative stress goes on and becomes chronic, it begins to take its toll on the body and cause physical, mental and emotional problems” (“Coping with stress at school”). One major mental illness found among high school teenagers was depression. Depression, as we all know, can lead to a drastic or even deadly event like suicide. The number of suicide cases has increase exponentially over the years, and most deaths coming from the teen age group.
On average, high school students receive about 3.5 hours of homework each night and elementary school students are getting about three times the amount that is recommended, which is ten minutes per grade, so 10 minutes for 1st grade and 50 minutes for 5th grade. Homework takes time to do after school and extracurriculars. If a student goes to school at 9:00 and gets out at 4:00, then goes to an after-school activity from 4:00 to 6:00, they will come home and have dinner from about 6:30 to 7:15, which means that they will probably start homework at around 7:30. This means that high school student would be up until about 11:00 finishing their homework, that’s without factoring in how much time the students will waste. This leaves students with less than the recommended 9 hours of sleep. Students that have to stay up that late for homework will be tired in the morning, even if their schools do start later.
This school should not require 100 hours of community service as a graduation requirement because of the busy lives of teenagers, the pressure of graduation, and loss of enthusiasm for community service. Schools should encourage community service but this is not the way to do it.
How many times has this happened to you; it’s six thirty on a Tuesday morning, your alarm has already gone off twice, your still laying in bed and your bus comes in twenty minutes. This is an everyday occurrence at my house. It is a proven statistic that the average high school student does not get enough sleep. While some experts like Dr. Lee Yanku say “It is not the schools starting time that is the problem as to why students don’t get enough sleep, it is because of facebook, myspace and cell phones” The truth behind it is that we can’t budget sports, homework and extracurricular activities into one day and still get nine hours of sleep. This is hurting student’s academic averages and needs to change. Changing the school time will help boost academic averages among students, and isn’t th...
For some high school students, sleep is not considered a necessity – but rather, a luxury. Sports, extra-curricular activities, and Fine Arts programs play an important role in students’ lives and require a significant amount of commitment and dedication. Social life aside, some students have taken the additional endeavors of acquiring jobs, participating in volunteer activities, and taking extra Advanced Placement classes. With too many tasks to fulfill in a twenty-four hour day, high school students are forced to substitute for the most essential condition of all: sleep.
Some might say that students attending specialized high schools were selected for a reason, as if students ask for this amount of work and lack of relaxation time. Many believe that they should learn to manage their time better and learn how to handle things, however this is untrue. Teens are prone to stress and anxiety due to the changing in hormones and such. Adding all of this unnecessary stress to them will just cause them to become overwhelmed and shut down. Yes, students need to learn how to manage their time wisely, but the solution to balancing your time equally is not getting bombarded with hours of school work after a long school day and commute home.
Adolescents all around the world stay up playing video games, playing on their phones, playing around with their friends, or cramming in an assignment that’s due the next day due to their procrastination. With all these contributing factors, sleep is the last thing on any teen’s mind. School work has a big effect on teens while trying to do it and do it right and get a good night’s sleep every night. The more and more sleep you get each night, the easier it is to get better grades in school, understand things better, and progress easier and faster. Lack of sleep can cause teens to not care thus making their effort poor on their work while their drive and motivation to learn is
“Sleep deprivation is epidemic among adolescents, with potentially serious impacts on mental and physical health, safety, and learning. Most teenagers undergo a biological shift to a later sleep-wake up cycle, which can make early school start times particularly challenging.” says Boergers.
Have you ever felt so tired in the middle of class? A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that 70% percent of teens aren't getting enough sleep. Most people are blaming this on school times. For many students, school starts way too early and are ruining their sleep schedules and themselves in particular.
When children make the transition from primary school to middle school or high school, it affects them a lot when the changing of their own sleep cycle affects the way they actually learn. Dr. Judith Owens, who is the director of the Sleep Medicine Clinic at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., says "adolescents are programmed to fall asleep later,” (2013). She wants to change school start times to later because "we are asking [teens] to be awake and alert at the time in their 24-hour clock when their alertness level is at its very lowest,” (2013). She also says that most teens can’t usually fall asleep until 11 p.m. Sleep expert Amy Wolfson of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., says that children should try to get eight and a half to nine and a half hours of sleep a night. Waking up at six a.m. leads to bad sleep patterns creating sleep deprivation.
Fifty six percent of students report being tired throughout the school day, which can lead to missed information and confusion (Wysong). According to this statistic, over half the students in class are not going to achieve their maximum learning potential in school. In order to avoid this problem, a teenager's brain typically needs to sleep from 11:00 pm to 8:00 am (“High schools starting later to help sleepy teens”). However, most high schools require students to be in class as early as 7:15 or 7:30 am. As a result, many adolescents simply do not have the opportunity to get enough rest. Changing the traditional school time to start later in the day will benefit adolescent sleep cycles, promote learning, and prevent disease by regulating the body. Ideally,...
Many people are included with after school activities and barely have time to go home and do homework. And after they come back from their after school activity they might be really tired and just ready to go to bed.
Many Things that teens do in their daily lives prevent them from getting sleep. To start off, the majority of teens use their phones during late hours. Their phones give off blue light, which sends signals to the brain that it is still daytime, and delays the sleep process. Added to that, they get a lot of homework to do, along with many extra-curricular activities. When this occurs, they don’t even begin trying to sleep until later into the night. Staying up later could be better if you could compensate your sleeping time by waking up later, but with schools starting earlier and earlier as time goes by, that is impossible. With school and activities making it difficult, it is no surprise that students are lacking sleep.
Sleep deprivation is prevalent throughout a college students’ career. The difference between a student that gets an “A” over a “B” can be the amount of sleep they receive. In other cases, we can jeopardize ourselves from sleep deprivation without realizing it. Even instances where some students may stay up to complete an assignment or play video games, only to succumb to sleepiness the following morning. Sleepiness is the inadequate amount of sleep which can cause drowsiness. It is prominent in fifty percent of college students, while it is only predominant in thirty-five percent of adults and adolescents (Hershner & Chervin 73). In other words, people exhibit symptoms from sleep deprivation, which in turn affects them in college. The symptoms
If teachers really care about making sure that a student is getting the proper education and learning what they need to learn, they would never say that or even have that mentality. They fail to realize that by putting less interest in helping the youths will only hold them back from moving forward to the next step. Also, the system suspends many kids out of the school because it is in the disciplinary code. Students that get kicked out of school for a long period of time start to miss out on school work and eventually start to fall behind and fail. When things like this start to happen, it only leads to the youth dropping out of school. It also leads them into a depressant mode. And depressant mode only leads to one thing and that is committing suicide. At this point in life, we cannot afford to allow the youth to stay away from school. In order for any youth to find a job they need their education and staying away from school cannot help that. There is punishment for every wrong action that a student may do, but keeping them away from school for a long period of time does not fix the situation because they end up missing work. Some students do not take the full advantage of public education. Maybe because of the simple fact that it is free they feel as if they can fool around with it. According to Gatto, "We have been taught (that is, schooled)
Are the new standards and expectations the world has for teenagers really creating monsters? The amount of stress that is put on students these days between trying to balance school, homework, extra curricular activities, social lives, sleep and a healthy lifestyle is being considered a health epidemic (Palmer, 2005). Students are obsessing over getting the grades that are expected of them to please those that push them, and in return, lose sleep and give up other aspects of their lives that are important to them, such as time with friends and family, as well as activities that they enjoy. The stress that they endure from the pressures of parents, teachers, colleges, and peers has many physical as well as mental effects on every student, some more harmful than others. The extreme pressure on students to get perfect grades so that they will be accepted into a college has diminished the concept of actually learning and has left the art of “financing the system” in order to succeed in its place (Palmer, 2005).