Sleep Deprivation In High School

Sleep deprivation in the condition in which the body does not get enough sleep, which created a lackadaisical attitude toward school and the work assigned.. Close to all high school students are currently not getting the recommended eight hours of sleep every night. Due to early high school start times, many teens are currently sleep deprived.

Teenagers need over nine hours of sleep every night. Most teens do not get nearly the right amount of sleep and therefore are sleep deprived.Teens are not getting enough sleep due to earlier high school start times. Teens are "biologically programmed" to get sleepy and wake up later than adults (Holohan 2). When teens skimp out on sleep are more likely to be overweight or depressed and are more likely to suffer academically and

Adolescents who don't get enough sleep often suffer physical and mental-health problems, an increased risk of automobile accidents, and a decline in academic performance. Shifting school times often causes conflicts with carefully crafted family schedules and the timing of afterschool activities and sport (Blad 1). About 40 percent of U.S. public high schools open before 8 a.m., according to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, with just 15 percent starting 8:30 a.m. or later (School 5). Later school start times have been touted as a way to increase student performance. There has not, however, been much empirical evidence supporting this claim or calculating how large an effect later start times might have. My results indicate that delaying the start times of middle schools that currently open at 7:30 by one hour would increase math and reading scores by 2 to 3 percentile points, an impact that persists into at least the 10th grade (Edwards 4). Telling a young person to go to bed at 9 or 9:30 at night, they simply cannot do