The Teen Who Woke Up Her School Summary

Ring Ring! Nobody likes the sound of their alarm clock when they’re trying to get some sleep. The article entitled “The Teen Who Woke Up Her School” by Jane Bianchi, the video named “Should Students Start Later in the Morning?” by ABC News, and the infographic called “Wake Up Call” by Sarah McKibben, all talk about the efforts that students are trying to make to change the school starting time. Allowing students to be able to sleep more would be very beneficial to attendance, academic scores, and the student’s energy!
Firstly, in the first article, a girl named Jilly Dos Santos stands up to the school and makes the school starting time later, by leading many students to help change the starting time. It also talks about how even students reading the article can step up and show their opinion to their school district about school starting times! in the article it states,” Your body isn't just on a later schedule though— your brain also needs more total hours of sleep (about 9.25 a night) to function at its best. Sadly, most teens are able to squeeze in only about 7.1 hours, on average.” This shows that if people don’t change the school starting times, most teenagers are losing around 2 hours of needing rest! in conclusion, if people like Jilly Dos Santos step up to change school times, teenagers may finally be able to get the

amount of sleep that they need!
Secondly, in the second video, a news reporter gets an interview on what a girl named Amelia experiences with her school’s early start times!

She says things like they would miss school if they get an extra five minutes of sleep, or that they wake up around 5:30 am. In the vid;eo at (0:46), Amelia says, ”I usually wake up when it’s dark, and waking up at 5:45 just barely gives me enough time to go to school.” This shows the reader that some people have to wake up really early, because their school starts early! in conclusion, many kids feel the same as Amelia does, since they have to get up really early, just so they could make it to

school!
Finally, in the last infographic, it shows how much sleep a student should get, and how much students from getting, when schools start. If you look at this graph, you can see how many teenagers are struggling to get enough sleep. In the infographic, it states,” ⅔ of all school students get less than 7 hours of sleep.” This shows that more than half of all students are lacking 2 hours of very needed sleep. To sum up, if schools start earlier, it would be helping more than 60% of all students to get a sufficient amount of sleep!
However, many people may argue that making the school starting time later would take away from time that you could use for extracurricular activities, such as sports or learning and instrument! This is not the case, because how can you do an after school activity if you too sleepy to even do it? It’s been scientifically proven that most kids tend to play sports better after getting a good rest, than kids who didn’t. For example, would you want to play more after sleeping and getting you energy back, or without sleeping, or rest? Most people would say they would like some rest, as it gives them some energy.
In the end, if students could sleep more before school, they would be better in their studies, they would be less tardy and absent, and they would have more energy to do other things. The article entitled “The Teen Who Woke Up Her School” by Jane Bianchi, the video named “Should Students Start Later in the Morning?” by ABC News, and the infographic called “Wake Up Call” by Sarah McKibben all explained how students are doing better with more sleep, and making efforts to change school starting times. It’s your turn to act now and speak to your district about this matter, you whole school is counting on it!