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...
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.
Among adolescents and teenagers lack of sleep has become an epidemic. Teenagers believe that sleep is expendable when, in reality, it is extremely important for teens to receive sufficient sleep. Alexandra Robbins argues in her book, The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids, that teenagers are willing to sacrifice sleep for success and that this way of thinking is harmful to adolescent development. It is because of this way of thinking and the negative effect it has, that the start time of high schools should be pushed back. Through evidence provided by Robbins and an outside source, it can be asserted that the start time of high schools should be pushed back.
Most high school teens and middle school teens don't get enough sleep, you are supposed to have 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep each night. Teachers and other educational people know this but they don't do anything to stop it. It is a scientific fact that teens learn more efficiently when they are well rested. Teenagers won't fall asleep later so they are continually losing sleep. There may be many causes why this is harmful in school relations but it is also dangerous in general, if students are too tired or over powered that can cause some dangerous side effects for example: getting in car accidents, alcohol, and cigarettes just so they can stay up longer.
Should school start later? How would you feel waking up when it is still dark outside? Wouldn't you want to get the recommended hours of sleep to feel well rested, more focused and to be more healthy. In doing this you can show your best abilities at school.
We’ve all woken up tired not wanting to go to school, because we didn’t get enough sleep. Of course when I say we, I mean as in teens who go to school, and possibly yourself when at the time in your life. The schedule for school doesn’t fit in very well with our sleep patterns. Sleep experts from the University of Minnesota, have found that later start times made students have a better health measure and over perform better in school (Hoofman 2). Research being done on this topic mostly specifies that bodies don’t agree with the start time, for various reasons. School start times should be pushed back an hour to benefit teens health, and school performance.
70% of high school students, like you and me, are sleep deprived; this means getting less than 7 hours of sleep. The teenage body needs relevant to 8 to 10 hours of sleep because the body is going through an important stage of growth and development. We get this sleep at delayed hours, like 11 p.m. and 12 a.m., due to chemical imbalance during our teenage years. In behalf of this delayed balance and early rising for school purposes, the body and brain are negatively impacted. The only known solution to this epidemic is schools having a later start time. Schools should start later because it could eliminate mental disorders and improve health, causing classroom grades to exceed.
82% of schools start earlier than the recommended time for starting. Schools for generations have been starting early, but now there is a push to start schools later. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that schools should start at 8:30 or later, but some schools don’t have the money to do it. Schools should start later because students will get more sleep, will improve their grades, and will reduce some risks. One reason schools should start later, is that it will allow students to get more sleep.
Mornings represents one of the things that most teens dread. Waking up early in the morning and required to attend school manifests a big effect on many people's attitude that is influential throughout the day. The only effective solution would require schools to start later in the morning. Many scientists have observed experiments of schools establishing late arrival across the nation that has exhibited a positive effect on the students. The Pottsboro Independent School District needs to grant students late arrival in the morning because it assists a student to retain energy and become ready when school starts.
In a recent survey over 70% of students want school to start at 9:00am or later, helping students by miles. Students who stay up past 1am on average every night start developing psychological and mental health problems. Other students come to school sleep deprived and do poorly on there work. Leading students to substance abuse or higher obesity due to stress. Furthermore students who go to school at a later time never develop psychological and mental health problems unlike students who go to school at early start times.
Do you think school should start later? 90% of high schoolers would say yes to school starting later. The other 10% is probably still asleep. Most students in the morning are usually still half asleep walking around like they just rose from the dead while there are those who look like they chugged a gallon of red bull.
High schools start too early in the morning, causing many students to be tired, and unfocused throughout their school day. This causes problems in how well students can learn, as well as their general health overall. Early school starting times should be moved forward one hour, in order to promote students health, and ability to learn.
It’s 6:00 am and I’ve already been up for 1/2 an hour. Why? Not because my dog is barking, or the sun is blinding; it’s because my school starts in an hour and I have to get driven through the rush-hour traffic that clogs around the school. Even after taking a shower and packing my bag, I’m struggling to fight off the yawns. I only get 7 hours of sleep on a good night because I’m staying up past 10:30 doing homework, and getting up a 5:30 to get to school on time. What can give me more sleep, let me walk to school, or eat breakfast? A later start to school.
Everyone knows it's going to a be a long day when they're running low on sleep. One night of inadequate sleep can be easily overcome, but many teenagers are dealing with tiredness daily. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: the Story of Success, states "Children, we like to believe, should have time to play and dream and sleep" (530). Gladwell presents the idea that adolescents need more time allotted into their schedules for plenty of sleep as well as some fun. However, most teens have an abundance of schoolwork and extracurricular activities making this is impossible. Even though it may not be easy, delaying school start times would be a tremendous step to help America's teens. Today's high school students in the United States are facing exhaustion, low grades, and poor health due to early school start times.
When your alarm clock rings, or your parents yell at you in the morning, do you feel like
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,...