Zacky Sungkar
HUM 101
Professor Arnowitz
12 October 2014
Research Paper Proposal What is the equitable time of day to be sending our children to school? The topic of school beginning too early has slowly been rising to question whether or not it would be beneficial to the learning process of adolescents for school to start later. Studies show that the brain of an adolescent isn't fully functional to retain memory until 10am; therefore, students would benefit from starting school at a later time than the usual 7-8am schedule. Additionally, it is evident that more sleep and a higher quality of sleep would be healthier for adolescents; thus, improving their education overall. Through my research I will find biological and psychological evidence
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However, the early bird gets the worm, as the saying states. Recently, on the other hand, that may not convey the impression of the case. According to Professor Russell Foster, “forcing teenagers to turn up to school in the morning could result in more errors, poor memory, reduced motivation and depression.” He goes on to state, “The time at which children become fully awake gets progressively later as they get older. The pattern continues until the age of 20, when it begins to reverse, making adults more alert in the mornings.” Of course, this begs the question: What other effects does starting school, or the day in general, have on adolescents? The answer, according to the AAP (American Academy of Pediatricians) is that it can contribute to health issues such as obesity, diabetes, mood changes and behavior problems when there is a lack of sleep from waking up too early in the morning. In fact, there has been admonishing for pushing back start times for older kids, particularly teens, because it's better for their mental and physical
Waking up early at 6:00 A.M in the morning isn’t the funniest thing to do. The times on when school starts should be changed to a later time. Schools should change start times to later there is even factual evidence that this is true. In the article ‘The Teen Who Woke Up Her School’ by Jane Bianchi wrote about a teen named Jilly Dos Santos who put hard work into petitions and powerpoints to show how more sleep can better not only her but other people on school work and sports. People need more sleep to function and get through the day and to be more alert about things around them.Evidence from scientist and from teens show that people work better when they have more energy and got a good night's rest and when students don’t they sometimes start
Why Schools Should Continue Starting at Eight Despite popular opinion, to be beneficial, schools should continue on their current schedules, and not start later. Starting schools later can have a variety of positive and negative consequences on students. Schools currently are at a time that gives students enough lesson time to learn subjects, but still have time to relax and take part in other activities after school. Many families depend on the time school starts to have easy transportation to school and work. Starting schools later will take away students time to do activities of their choice such as spend time with their families, socialize with others, and participate in extracurricular activities.
Allowing students to sleep more by starting school later would benefit them in a multitude of ways and keep them from feeling enervated. According to the online article, A Wake-Up Call on High-School Starting Times, “...troubled kids often get caught up in a distress cycle in which too little sleep causes them to experience anxiety and inner turmoil, which, in turn, cause them to lose more sleep. In the worst
Later school start times are scientifically proven to help teens in many beneficial ways. Teenagers and adolescents have sleep patterns. According to the article,¨ Teens and Sleep¨ Teens bodies naturally
Based on the article on The National Sleep Foundation, when it's time for school the average teen body still thinks it's the middle of the night.
Throughout the United States, students tend to complain about how early school starts in the morning. A few schools in the U.S. are beginning to move their start times later in the morning. However, not everyone is on the same side of these decisions. Some say that later school start times will have benefits on student performance and student health. Others say that later school start times would have negative affects on what time school will end and the schedules of the community. What times schools start is a very controversial topic.
If school started later, kids wouldn’t be so tired in the morning. School starting later is very beneficial because kids wouldn’t sleep so much in class. Students need a total of 8-10 hours of sleep on school days to be awake in the morning. 33% of teens report falling asleep in class every day. 73% of high school students get fewer than 8 hours of sleep on school nights, with 46% of middle school students getting barely 7 hours of sleep.
Researchers have proven that teenager’s brains don’t start working until ten in the morning, also that an average teenager is supposed to get eight to nine hours of sleep each night. These are a few reasons that school starting times are negatively affecting students learning abilities at school. I believe that schools should have later starting times. An average teenager is supposed to get eight to nine hours of sleep each night, however in reality most teens only get about seven hours. A lack of sleep is causing students to do worse on homework and tests. Our school starts at seven twenty-five, if it started two hours later, then students would be getting the exact amount of sleep that they need each night. A study shows that the brain doesn’t
Starting school later also has a lot of health and academical benefits. Even if the school day starts 30 minutes later, It has proven to show great benefits for teenagers. In the pass Up For Debate: Should School Start Later It says “As a result, students were showing up to school alert and ready to learn and are focused and engaged in lessons.” Some people believe that starting earlier is better because a later start results in a later end to the day. But changing it to a later time will still give kids enough time to sleep and get their work
“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.
In Dr. Michael Breus’ blog post, “Teens Need More Sleep Than You Think,” he states that teenagers are “wolves” or the chronotype that centers around going to sleep late. A chronotype is the time a person’s internal clock is set to at a given time in their life. Teenagers are a part of the chronotype that goes to bed later and wakes up later. Teenagers naturally go to bed at around 11:00 pm and need between eight and ten hours of sleep every night because of their chronotype. This means that going to school as early as 7:00, and waking up at 5:30, could lead to getting up to two and a half fewer hours of sleep than needed. This can have many harmful side effects. Also, it is simply hard to accomplish simple tasks early in the morning for both sleep deprived people, but also the wolf chronotype. Tasks that can be harder earlier in the morning can be as simple as speaking to other people or getting dressed, not to mention doing school work or driving. In fact, according to Dr. Robert Daniel Vorona from the Eastern Virginia Medical School, starting highs schools earlier can lead to an increase in driving related accidents. Dr. Vorona analyzed two cities, Chesterfield, Virginia, which had a 7:20 am start time, and Henrico County, which had an 8:45 am start time. He found that for every 1,000 drivers with licenses from the ages of 16 to 18 in Chesterfield there were 49
Sleep deprivation for students in school can affect mood, health, ability to pay attention, deal with stress, and retain information, but that's not even everything that is affected. Students are not getting enough sleep to sustain them. As a result of waking up too early for school, students do not function properly. Due to students being tired in the morning, they would learn more in classrooms if school started later.
Sleep is extremely important to all of us, but students and teens aren't getting enough of it and it’s a problem. When teenage students are tired, that increases obesity, illness, anxiety, and depression. No parent or teacher wants their kids to have those qualifications so that's one of the reasons why school should start later.
Richmond references research done by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement. The University found that going to school later in the morning increased attendance, test scores, and grade averages. The University also found that there was a decrease in tardiness, substance abuse, depression, and teen car accidents (Richmond). A reader would notice that these compelling consequences are subsequently caused by going to school later and very beneficial to the students’ lives. The compelling consequences
If you notice your child’s grades not doing so good they have came up with a solution. If you could help improve your child’s grades would you? The school board has found out that a lot of kids grades has decreased in the last little while so they found out what was wrong. The students are not getting enough sleep so they fall asleep in class.