...After reading "High School Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens" and "High School Will Keep Starting Too Early. Here´s Why", I see where both authors are coming from when they wrote the text. The first one talks about Highschool starting later but on the hand, the other talks about high school starting at the same time. "High school starting later for sleepy teens", states that high school students don´t get enough sleep, causing them to sleep in class on a typical day. I can relate to that so personally I comprehend where Michelle Trudeau is going with this. In the text there are some pros located in it about high school starting later like students being less depressed and more alert in class. Along with that the drop out levels went...
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...Starting school at a later time would be better for most students and teacher, school time starts to early. There are facts to prove that school time before 8:30AM are way too early. All high up school corporations recommend that no school time starts before that time. If a student has homework, almost every night, most times it’s in multiple subjects, they’re going to be up late at night. American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended school times start no earlier than 8:30AM. A student who stays up all night to complete their homework is not going to get much sleep, and no sleep means sleep deprived. Sleepiness in a teen is a major public health issue. Short sleep makes children obese, causes them more likely to develop insulin resistance (type two diabetes), causes automobile accidents in the early morning, and sometimes causes depression and anxiety. Students would perform better with more sleep at night. Teens spend a great portion of each day in school. Being sleep deprived has the effect of not being alert, not...
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...because school ends to late? Besides getting a bit more sleep you can miss out on sports and activities. The topic that school should or should not start later has been discussed many times. Many schools have considered to change their start time later, but only some schools have done it. The schools that tried a new school time have found that it benefited the students while other schools don’t recommend to switch the starting time. “Should School Start Later” by Justin O’Neill, “Sleepy Teens: High School Should Start Later in the Morning” by Mark Fischetti and “Teachers overwhelmingly oppose later high school start times in Montgomery” by Julie Zauzmer and Dana Hedgpeth give support that schools shouldn’t start later. Despite the fact people think school starting earlier is good for students but I strongly believe kids should wake up because school will end to late, there will be transportation problems and changing school times can be unbeneficial for students. To begin, school will end to late. School ending to late can cause various problems for the students. Scope states “For one thing, starting school later means dismissing school later, which leaves...
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...groan realizing you did not go to sleep until 1:30 a.m. Why do students have to be to school so early? The school day should start later than it does. Students should not have to be to school early because it decreases tardies and absences, reduces the chance of students falling behind and increases productivity. For a while now the average high school start time around the country is 7:40 a.m. At first, researchers believed that by starting school early, students will perform better in school. But, as time went on and technology developed, scientists saw how disastrous it is to students health. Starting school at a later time has become a trend in a lot of high schools across America. Schools are beginning to change their school start time due to a recent study did...
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...I think high schools should start later in the day and end later in the day, to improve high school students lives. Now that research proves this idea. Many students have a hard time waking up on time and tend to perform poorly in class without the correct amount of sleep. So lets talk about some of the benefits of starting school later on in the day. Firstly and most importantly students will come to class alert and ready to learn. Many teachers struggle with getting students to be active in class and it is not their fault but the school's fault. The reason why students are not being active in class is because school starts too early and causing students to get a lack of sleep making them sleep deprived. If students got a good night...
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...teenagers not getting enough sleep has caused some schools to consider starting later. Teenagers are tired in school and could perform better if they were more awake in their early classes. Although teens don’t get enough sleep, schools should not start later because teens can go to bed earlier, transportation time and costs are reduced by some schools starting earlier, and they need time for after school activities or their grades will be affected. The argument for starting schools later is that teenagers are biologically determined to go to bed late and wake up late and thus don’t get enough sleep. Sixty percent of students under 18 complained about being tired and fifteen percent of students reported falling asleep in...
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...Why do schools start at 8 a.m.? It is because it is more convenient for parents that have children in elementary school. School starts too early for teens; it is natural for elementary children to start at 8 a.m. but not teenagers. Teenagers need more sleep than older adults and young children. Schools should start later because students be more alert and healthier as well as schools will save money. Schools starting later will help students be more alert. The lack of sleep most adolescents get can cause moodiness, lack of attention, memory problems, behavior issues, and the ability to function (kqed). People between 14-24 years old are the most likely to be sleep deprived and it is due to not getting enough sleep during the week (iflscience). Benefits of sleeping include increased memory and learning, better attention span. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), almost 70% of high-school students report sleeping for seven hours or less on a regular basis (time). This proves that the majority of students are sleep...
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...Cooney May 15, 2012 College English/Surinak Senior Research Paper Period 2 Wake Up Later and Your Grades Will Be Greater High school is a part of every teenager’s life whether they like it or not. Although it is not a requirement; most, if not all, teenagers will experience at least one year of high school. With the experience of high school, students will also go through waking up early sometimes at five or six a.m. The starting time of high schools has been highly debated for several years. Those who debate this topic usually dispute on whether or not changing the time would be beneficial. Psychologists estimate that as many as 30% of children may have a sleep disorder at some point during childhood. Sleep disorders have implications both for social-emotional adjustment and for school performance. For this reason it is important for both parents and educators to understand how sleep works and how disruptions in normal sleep patterns can affect children and teenagers. Starting school just a half an hour later would benefit the most families and students, and also to accommodate for teens' sleep needs. One of the main beneficial topics to argue for starting school later is attendance. Schools should start later because it is proven that students will have higher attendance. If students can get more sleep, they are more likely to attend school on a regular basis. Studies have shown that after puberty, teenagers require more sleep, around nine and a half hours, and...
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...Schools across the world have such an early start time and little do they know how it’s affecting their students. In my communities case, it’s waking up around 5 or 6 in the morning and being in class by 7:25. If you take the bus to school you are up before most students. Most students are up until late night or early morning completing school assignments. This also plays a part in the early starting times. School effects when you go to sleep, the number of hours you get when you sleep and when you have to wake up. And no, it’s not procrastination causing these late nights. Students are involved in afterschool activities, work, sports and other events. The first bell at school rings too early and should be pushed to later in the morning. If this happens, students will be getting the amount of sleep they need each night, better grades will appear and they will be much healthier. It’s been proven with science that lack of sleep makes learning difficult. When you don’t get enough sleep your thought process slows down and your memory gets impaired. School can be hard enough for students and the lack of sleep makes it even worse. If we started at a later time students would be able to sleep longer. More sleep means better...
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...brush teeth, eat, catch the bus, go to school. No one wants to get up in the morning and most people would agree. The average start time for high schools in America is 8:03 which is before the recommended start time of 8:30. Why does school start early? The majority of U.S. middle and high schools start their school days too early, not letting young people get enough sleep for development and academic success. One of the reasons schools should start later is that they are not starting at the recommended time set by the American Academy of Pediatrics of 8:30. A new study was published from the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) that states that less than one in five middle and high schools in America starts...
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...Are you in high school and is it hard for you to stay concentrated throughout the whole school day or is it hard for you to get up in the morning? The reason why you can’t concentrate at school is because we may be starting school too early in the morning. Most high schools start at around 8:00 in the morning. Since the start time is 8:00am most of the students would have to get up at around 6:00-6:30am in order to make it on time. They have to get up that early because most of the would probably like to shower, have time to get dressed and make final adjustments. Then you have to eat breakfast because that is the most important meal of the day. With all of that, you are talking about an hour or so to get ready. Finally, you have the time it takes to get to school by either the bus, car, bicycles, or even walking. Everyone has complained about how early they have to get up for school. My siblings do it, my friends do it, I do it, and even my mom does it when she is a substitute teacher for our school. Dawn Wallace, whose 16-year-old daughter attends Polytech High School in Woodside states that "We have to get my daughter up at 5:30 in the morning. It takes a few alarms to get her out of bed. How do they expect children to be alert and ready to learn when they're not getting the proper amount of sleep?” It’s my junior year this year and I couldn’t be more overwhelmed with school. I have test to study for tests, do homework in pretty much every subject and then I have to try...
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...Around six o’clock every morning, teens all across America are awoken by the deafening and annoyingly familiar sound of their alarm ringing, beckoning them to get ready for school. Their response; hitting that well-known snooze button, as their bodies crave another hour of sleep. Most high schools in America start at or earlier than 8:30 AM, which is much too early considering that the students usually fall into a deep sleep sometime after midnight(Wallace). Studies show that 87% of students, or more specifically, teens attending high schools report getting less than the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep on weekdays due to their schools’ early start times(Reddy). Start times at 8:30 AM or earlier in America are negatively impacting teenagers’...
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...Do you love sleep? Most schools in the state start at about 7:30 A.M., which is way too early for an adolescent. I myself being an adolescent, feel that school start times should be pushed back at least an hour. Schools starting later is beneficial to teenagers’ overall health, functioning, and will help to improve academic performance. An adolescent’s body requires over nine hours of sleep; however, according to a survey I conducted with one hundred of my high school peers, none of the students got the required amount of sleep that they needed from the night before. Overtime, this lack of sleep can lead to weight gain, depression, heart disease, and impaired immune systems. When you sleep your body produces bacteria and virus fighting substances, deprivation from sleep disturbs this process from happening. This is what weakens the immune system and causes more teenagers to become sick easily. Also, many high schools in Minneapolis changed the start time to 8:30 A.M., from this experiment, research concluded that depression rates in these students decreased....
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...get ready to drive to school. Teens amble and climb in their car to rush to get to school, so that they aren’t late. Adults make their way to work when a sleepy teen swerve into the other lane and hits another car head on. There was a loud crunching noise as the two cars collide, glass flies everywhere while airbags deploy. All of this could have been avoided if teens could get more sleep. Even though the accident was slightly dramatic, it is only one of the side effects of sleep deprivation that can be caused by schools starting too early. Since a lot of accidents have been caused by teens that haven’t gotten the proper amount of sleep, the school start time should be no earlier than 8:30am. In the event that teens are more prone to accidents due to lack of sleep, it’s dangerous to even think about letting them drive to school early in the morning. “Teen drivers are at the highest risk for drowsy driving; however, and preliminary studies have shown that delaying their school start time has a significant effect in lowering the occurrence of such crashes.” (Eight major obstacles to later school start...
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...GETTING THE RIGHT START WITH EARLY EDUCATION UNIT 6 Project Bill Stout CM107 GETTING THE RIGHT START WITH EARLY EDUCATION I. Introduction a. Early Childhood Education is more important than you think. b. There are programs out there to help everyone. II. The benefits of starting a child’s education properly are more than you think. a. Starting school at the same level as most children. b. A greater chance of not dropping out and finishing throw high school and possibly college. III. How should parents participate in their child’s education? a. Using age-appropriate materials so as they don’t hinder their Education. b. Enrolling their children in programs early so they learn how to Socialize with their peers. IV. Conclusion Other than teacher’s parents play a large role in their child’s early education, knowing what to do and when to do it will benefit your child more than you think. Early Childhood Education is more important than you think; it has been proven that children who started their education at an early age do not begin kindergarten at the same level as other students. Having a successful child is being a successful parent; Start them in the right direction from the beginning. Parents can start this process before the children are you born. Pre-birth impact, if the child is exposed to positive things it will reflect on them after they are born and if exposed to negative things that impact will be the same. A parent would...
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