Why We Should Make School Start Later
Everyone and everything needs to sleep, humans and animals alike. It's how our brains store information and recharge, but people (especially Americans) aren't getting enough sleep. Kids and teens need at least 10.5 hours of sleep per night, but in a survey 51% admitted to getting 8 hours or less! This is a problem, and so to give teens and kids more sleep we should make school start later and after-school programs end earlier. One reason kids get little sleep is over scheduling. They have swimming, gymnastics, baseball, or sometimes all three! This forces them to come home later, and stay up even longer to do homework. "Then there's gymnastics on Mondays, and other days when Lauren doesn't get home until 6, after her parents pick her up from
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These distractions include music, phones, social media, and tv. They keep your brain running and energized, which in turn makes it harder to calm down and sleep. "'More children are going to bed with TV's on, and there are more opportunities to stay awake, with more homework, the Internet and the phone,'"(Park). Dr. Mary Carskadon says that kids stay up later doing homework, going on their phone for that text or ding, and watching tv. After a point, your body takes over and you do go to sleep, but missing on those heavily needed hours of sleep seriously hurts you. And you can't make it up on the weekends if you fail to sleep correctly, it takes more than a few extra hours on Saturday and Sunday to make up for many hours lost throughout the week. Kids and teens alike need more sleep than they are currently getting by starting school later and ending after-school programs earlier. Over scheduled students get home late, so they start homework late, and they go to sleep later. School starts way too early, so students doing multiple clubs and programs don't get much sleep when they have to wake up early to make the bus. And with so many distractions, it's hard to not look at a phone or the tv when trying to sleep. Do to give teens and kids more sleep, many things need to
These distractions include music, phones, social media, and tv. They keep your brain running and energized, which in turn makes it harder to calm down and sleep. "'More children are going to bed with TV's on, and there are more opportunities to stay awake, with more homework, the Internet and the phone,'"(Park). Dr. Mary Carskadon says that kids stay up later doing homework, going on their phone for that text or ding, and watching tv. After a point, your body takes over and you do go to sleep, but missing on those heavily needed hours of sleep seriously hurts you. And you can't make it up on the weekends if you fail to sleep correctly, it takes more than a few extra hours on Saturday and Sunday to make up for many hours lost throughout the week. Kids and teens alike need more sleep than they are currently getting by starting school later and ending after-school programs earlier. Over scheduled students get home late, so they start homework late, and they go to sleep later. School starts way too early, so students doing multiple clubs and programs don't get much sleep when they have to wake up early to make the bus. And with so many distractions, it's hard to not look at a phone or the tv when trying to sleep. Do to give teens and kids more sleep, many things need to