First of all, kids having to get up between 6:30 and 7:00 five out of seven days of the week is completely unacceptable! According to the article “Wake Up Call”, research shows that sleep affects health, happiness, and cognitive functioning- especially among teens.” This shows that the more sleep teens get the happier and more productive they will become. Teachers would also appreciate their students to be well slept for their class because the more rested students are the better…
“42 states reported that most (75%-100%) public schools started before 8:30 a.m” (“Schools Start Too Early”). Most schools start before 8:30. A decent amount of schools start around 7:20. Schools start early in the day and release later in the afternoon. This has become routine, but studies show that students who start early in the day perform worse in school compared to those who start later in the day. Schools should implement a later start time for higher schoolers since high schoolers would get around the recommended amount of sleep, preventing sleeping in school and high schoolers academics and safety will increase, since they will get enough sleep to study before school and prevent drowsiness.…
“Go to bed earlier if you’re tired,” said every parent in this world. Teenagers circadian sleep rhythm is they won’t fall asleep before 11 PM. Schools’ early start times cause students many issues, therefore schools should move their starting time to a later time. Many issues come upon starting school early such as sleep deprivation and the health and safety of the teenagers. To fix these issues the solution is to move schools’ start times to a later time no earlier than 8:30 AM.…
The majority of Students stay up late even on school nights, if students had a hour later to get ready they wouldn't be as tired and failing classes and not wanting to do anything while they're at school. In the article Backgrounder by the national sleep foundation, “Later school start times” It states “research shows that adolescents require as much sleep as they did as a children generally, 8 1/2 to 9 ¼”(1). This shows that adolescents aren't getting enough sleep as they should be to have to wake up early and go to school. Even if we had a hour later to start school students wouldn't be as tired as they are now.…
School start times need to be changed to a later time: students need more sleep to be more focused in school, teenagers attitudes and incidents worsen when woken up too early, and students grades increase in percent when getting more sleep. Will changing school times help kids be more focused? No one can argue that getting up for school is a hassle and very tiring. “The American Academy of Pediatrics supports pushing back start times for older kids, particularly…
Starting School Later A big topic in the news right now is students, especially athletes, not getting enough sleep due to a combination of athletic practices and events, homework, and family activities. Having to get up at six o’clock is already extremely challenging, but it becomes even more difficult when students have enormous day ahead of them, including school, practices, homework, and anything else needed to be done. Starting school later would be the perfect solution to this, and would give all students a chance to sleep later each day. Sleep is necessary for proper brain function, and is needed, especially for high school students, to maintain proper health.…
Delaying high school schedule, even if only by an hour or just a half hour, would be beneficial to the sleep needs of teenagers. "Studies have show that after puberty, teenagers require more sleep (about nine and half-hours) but get less sleep (about seven and half-hours)" (Silver). After puberty, teens' shift into a delayed phase. Circadian rhythms (sleep patterns) all start and end later in the day than when they had prior puberty (Silver). Due to a teenager's change in sleep patterns, it would be better for them to begin school later than they do now.…
Did you know that the average student lacks about two hours of sleep every night? During the teenage years, a human body undergoes a significant developmental phase which requires a great amount of rest. However, since most students begin learning early, they lack essential bedtime. A solution to this issue would be to start school later. This would be greatly benefiting to the students because it puts less stress on them, it also decreases the amount of students missing their bus, and lastly gives teenagers the rest they need.…
Sleep deprivation is taking over the younger generation. It’s stealing away their creative minds and their energetic personalities. We can better this issue by letting our teenage students sleep in and come to school at later times. Our students may not get out of sport practices until later, or have enough time after sports to finish their homework, but the multitude of pros will surely make up for the inconveniences of the situation. Starting school at a later time will make students more alert and awake.…
Many students across the U.S. are complaining because they need more sleep. There is an easy answer to this and a harder answer that would cost more money. The easy answer is go to sleep earlier. The harder answer would be to change school start times. I believe that we should just go to sleep earlier. This is because we would not have to change schedules, Students aren´t guaranteed to go to sleep at the same time , and after school activities would not have to go into the night.…
Students should be getting up to ten hours of sleep to be able to be and stay healthy. If students are not healthy they are not able to focus and learn well in school. A student get roughly 8 or less hours of sleep due to everything they have to do such as homework, socialize, time for themselves, and their family. Students deserve the right to start school later since they spend practically their entire day in school. In most areas, school is started as early as 7 a.m. That means some students have to wake up at 5 in the morning to get ready for school and to be able to get school on time. Some may say students should sleep earlier but what they don’t think about is of the other things a students has to do such as any outside of school activities, sport, socializing, and family. That takes up the rest of the student’s causing them to have to sleep late and get less than the necessary hours of sleep needed to stay healthy and prepared for…
When students have to get up early it affects their physical needs. First, the amount of sleep teens get affects their melatonin levels. For example, a problem for many teens is that their melatonin levels rise later at night than in most children and adults, causing them to go to bed-- and want to get up-- at later times. (Source 2) Since, many teens do not feel sleepy until late at night, school should be started later. Second, teens are not getting the amount of sleep they need. For instance, teens need 10 to 12 hours of sleep but they are getting far less than that.(Source 2) Since teens don’t get sleepy until about 11:00, they get less sleep because of their early school start time. Last, teens cannot get sufficient sleep…
For example, "Lack of sleep can lead to a cascade of health issues like higher body weight, lower academic performance and a greater likelihood for substance abuse, medical experts say" (Sifferlin). This quote proves that teens without sleep could be affected by health issues. Students may also have weight problems, not able to stay awake during school, and sometimes low grades. For some kids it's hard to sleep early, so this is making it hard for them to want to get up. While some people believe that schools should start early instead of later in the morning. The reality is some teens can't sleep at night making it hard for them to wake up at six am to get ready for the bus at seven am. Some teens can't focus in school without nine hours of proper…
Rough Draft: Argumentative Essay In theory as time passes just about everything on Earth will change with its surrounding environment. Considering school is a part of almost every individual’s life, one would think that it has continued to evolve as those going through it age and have children of their own. Even though society has evolved with the passing of time, the school system has not reached its potential with the introduction of knowledge and technology around today.…
High school is stressful as it is and when we don’t get to sleep well at night it’s even more stressful. Then wake up early the next day it’s hard for someone to focus completely. Having hours of homework, doing chores, and just spending time with family after school can’t be done .When you have to go to bed early and wake up at six o’clock the next day. If students would be able to get at least one more hour of sleep it would decrease many health issues, attendances issues ,accidents and maybe even help in a way that it could increase students grades.…