Let’s face it, school starts way too early for students of all ages. It's a struggle for most teens and some teachers included. Whether it's first grade or 11th grade, students hardly enough time to get ready in the morning, let alone have enough for a full night of sleep and be completely awake to function. Like most students, getting ready in the morning and eating breakfast while still making it to school on time can be very difficult. Many children have chores to do in the morning as well, creating another reason to be late in the morning. With school starting so early in the morning, it's hard to make and eat a healthy breakfast without waking up at 3 in the morning. It is the most important meal of the day after all. School starting
Delaying the time that school starts could affect the amount of sleep that students receive. An average teen is supposed to obtain 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep each night. There is a national debate of whether or not to start school at a later time. Students, Parents, teachers, and even bus drivers all need their sleep. Why not start school earlier if teens are struggling to get to bed from after school
Suppose you are getting up out of bed to go to school in the morning. Your mom needs to arrive at work at 8:30, but your school just changed their start time to 9:45 because children at the school were falling asleep in class. You are forced to awaken at the same time you started waking up at, because your mom has to be at work. You have to go with your friend, who has his mother take him everyday. You have your mother take you at the same time as before to drop you off at your friend's house to wait.
“Making teens start school in the morning is cruel” says brain doctor. Mary Carskadon at Brown University has shown that teenagers need about nine hours a night to maintain full alertness and academic performance. Getting up at 6:00 am is totoo early. We should have a later start time because we need more sleep to focus, tTeens need a certain amount of sleep, and we need to stop dozing off in class.
In “High Schools Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens” by Michelle Trudeau and “High Schools Will Keep Starting Too Early.Here’s why.” by Dan Weissman they both have their own perspectives on life about school starting times and the problems they may bring to the students of high schools.In Michelle Trudeau’s story she says that the starting times for high schools has many students still very drowsy and tired most of the time having them nod off during school instruction.She states that in an average high school 20% of students fall asleep in class on a typical day.Therefore, in need to prevent this from happening teens need more sleep as opposed to them not getting enough sleep from either staying up late or period as some experts say.There are many ways to add additional support for teens and their sleep.
Going to bed at 2:00 in the morning and waking up at 6:30 AM to go to school is a nightmare for anyone. Unfortunately, this situation is far too common in today’s schools. But have you ever wondered how insufficient sleep affects your everyday life? Schools must start later. With early start times thwarting students’ health and safety, adolescents needing more sleep in general, and teens having trouble sleeping early, later start times are essential.
Ever wonder if school would be easier to get through if it started Later in the morning? School is already a struggle for some students with depression, anxiety, stuff happening at home, and learning disabilities, so maybe school starting later is a good idea.Although it seems like a good it may not be as great as it sounds. There are many reasons why school shouldn’t start later in the morning but the two most important would be that students wouldn’t get as much sleep as they need and wouldn’t have time to find or even get a decent job.
“Each fall, groggy teenagers resign themselves to another year of fighting their body clocks so they can get to class on time. It’s well known that teens who don’t get at least eight hours of sleep a night face a slew of problems,” -Los Angeles Times. This quote proves expresses how kids feel waking up in the morning, absolute dread. An advantage of starting school later would be that our kids would
To begin, Ben Franklin once said, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” So as long as we sleep earlier, then there will be no need to start schools later, right? Wrong. According to Newsweek, kids our age are biologically programmed to fall asleep at 11. Waking up for school around 6 in the morning, this leaves us with a mere 7 hours of sleep, as opposed to the 9 hours we need. It’s no wonder that even those students who drink gallons of coffee every morning are still exhausted during class.
Do any of you have classes that start earlier than 10 AM? Do you catch yourself yawning or falling asleep throughout the day? Most of you do. Waking up at the crack of dawn for another day of school isn’t fun for anyone: not for the millions of kids who have to be at school before 8:30 AM and certainly not for the parents who have to drag those kids out of bed. Teen students’ need a later school start time for many reasons: it gives teens the opportunity to get much needed sleep; it improves their academic performance; as well as helping them become healthier.
As this school year goes on students will find themselves unable to wake up bright and early for school. Every morning children have the constant struggle of getting ready in time to catch the early morning bus, they usually don’t even have time for a healthy breakfast! That is outrageous, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it gives kids the power they need to get through the day. Also having school so early effects students sleep, health/wellbeing, and the adults around them. All of these problems could be solved with one simple change.
Are you up too late finishing homework, or playing video games late at night? Having a later school start can help students be energetic, safe, and improve in school work. Teenagers nowadays need more sleep than they use to need when they were younger. For these reasons schools should implement a later start time.
School could be a pain, especially forcing yourself to wake up early in the morning just to go to school. We could at least wake up more later than early in the morning if we are going to school. Imagine if you could go to school later than usually. This plan actually help students. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging education policymakers to start middle- and high-school classes later in the morning. The idea is to improve the odds of adolescents getting sufficient sleep so they can thrive both physically and academically. The school day should start more later because student needs enough sleep, students could get excessive sleepiness in adolescents and
One of the reasons that school should be started later is because it does not give growing teens enough time to sleep. Sleep researcher, Wendy Troxel, who spoke on TED, says that high school aged kids’ sleep cycles do no start until 11 p.m and do not end until 8 a.m. This means that whenever students’ alarms go off from anywhere around 5-7:30 a.m, it simply does not
It is often said that the early bird gets the worm, but that is not the case for school start times. Many schools across the country have adolescents wake up in the wee hours of the morning to get ready and go to school. Evidence from complete studies suggests that teenagers are seriously sleep deprived. Waking up so early is not always beneficial, although some people do believe that it is efficient. School start times should be later because it improves adolescents’ health and academic performance, and it can increase the safety of the community.
Do you ever wake up and feel like you haven’t gotten enough sleep? The reason is because in reality you probably haven’t. Studies show that schools should not start any earlier that 8:30 in the morning due to teens suffering from sleep deprivation. There are many negative effects this condition can have on a teens body including a direct effect on one’s physical and mental health, public safety and excelling in the future. In the Ted Talk video, " Why school should start later for teens" by, Wendy Troxel. Ms. Troxel explained why school should start later for teens.. Students are very drowsy in the morning and are usually rushing to get to school on time which limits breakfasts times and healthy food options. Schools should start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. for several reasons but sleep deprivation is the most important. Sleep deprivation can cause a direct effect to a child’s general health and behavior, public safety and potentially future success.