...Jenah 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...
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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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...Students wake up very early to go to school, sometimes earlier than their parents. The issue of early start-times for schools may be the reason why students sleep in past their alarm clocks. High schools should start later in the day because then students could get more hours of sleep, students would be safer behind the wheel, and students would actually have an appetite for a nice breakfast and not feel so rushed. To begin with, high school students should receive 8-10 hours of sleep on a regular basis. As far back as 1999, a member of Congress introduced a resolution to make school start times later. Addressing the resolution, representative Zoe Lofgren said, “Over time, sleep deprivation leads to serious consequences for academic achievement, social behavior, and the health and safety of our nation’s youth”. Students who get less than 8 hours of sleep a night were ⅔ likely to get injured than those who do. If you get more sleep, you won’t be drowsy and clumsy. Also, the issue of inadequate sleep for students has been brought to the attention of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They realized that over 40 states had students starting school earlier than 8:30 a.m. There is proven facts that a lack of sleep causes higher rates of obesity and higher rates in motor vehicle...
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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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...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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...internal sleep clocks so that waking up early and going to sleep early are difficult. Should high school classes begin later in the day and end later in the day to accommodate students' natural sleep clocks? Consider some of the benefits and disadvantages to starting school later in the day. I agreed for trouble sleeping, for their sleeping patterns are in the different way by time for to sleep, by going to school are starting the school later in the morning. I actually agree, because students from high school do have problems of their sleeping patterns at night time for sleeping early, or some students are stressed out by staying up late for other things to do like finish their...
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...High school is a very important time in teenager's lives. They have many things going on and important decisions to make. I know this because I'm a teenager. To start an hour later would be great, but at the same time would cause too many problems. That is why I believe high school shouldn't start an hour later. However, starting school at our normal time is harming students. According to sleep experts, "[t]ypical sleep cycles begin around 11 PM for teenagers and continue through 8 AM "(Start School Later, Inc). This means that students only get around six or seven hours of sleep per school night and wakes students up in the middle of deep sleep. In contrast, parents oppose teens to start later. Mary Carskadon, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior stated, "parents are often reluctant to have teens start later, because they rely on having older children at home in the afternoons to take care of their younger siblings "(Richmond). This is because many...
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...practically every high schooler. Early mornings tend to be really hard on a young mind and body, however, this morning routine can be beneficial for high school students. Although some people believe that waking up later is better for high school students, early morning awakenings allow high schoolers to have more time to handle their responsibilities, gets them prepared for the future, and creates less struggles for school system employees. First of all, going to school early allows teens to have more time to get their responsibilities done. Since most high schools currently end around the early afternoon, students have plenty of time to complete other important tasks such as babysitting, homework, after school activities, jobs, and etc. Many of these tasks have strict hours that may be inflexible, which can lead teens to have to quit these activities. With the school day being pushed back, it pushes teens to have a ‘school, homework, and then sleep’ schedule. This can be very tiring and unhealthy on a young, growing body. According to a...
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...Research has shown that teenagers have internal sleep clocks, and have a difficult time going to sleep later and waking up earlier than normal. It has been thought that high school classes should begin and end at a later time. in my opinion, I disagree with this idea for a few reasons including; jobs that teenagers may have in high school, extra curricular activities , and it may also inflict on the pick up and drop off of the students to and from school. Making this change would not be a good idea. Many high school students have part time jobs in high school. Having to go to school later in the day may cut hours at work for the students. Those that have jobs most likely drive a car and have to pay insurance and make car payments...
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...crashes. Two studies correlated sleep to a decrease in crash rates among teen drivers. In one, earlier school start times made it more likely that teens in one Virginia city would be in a car crash rather than teens in a neighboring city. Biologically, teens are wired to stay up later while still needing to get at least nine hours of sleep a night. When the alarm clock goes off earlier, teens awake, sleep deprived just as they are expected to function at a high level as students and as drivers, often with calamitous results.( Teen Driving, 2013, Ellin Holohan). The results from the study show that teens do stay up later by nature, and then they wake up sleep deprived than they're expected to drive a two-ton killing machine. School should start later in the morning there's almost no cons and ton of pros. "Teenagers need over nine hours sleep a night, and it looks like a large number of teens don't get sufficient sleep ... Part of that relates to the time that high schools begin,"( Dr. Robert Vorona, Professor of internal medicine in the Division of Sleep Medicine)....
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...that teenagers in high school classes should begin school later in the day, because of having to wake up early and going to sleep early. Also about how the research shows that classes should begin later in the day, and end later in the day. I am in between about the research because there are good things and bad about starting school later in the day and getting out later on in the day. Why I think that it is a good idea to start classes later in the day, because high school students will get more sleep and be prepared for class. Also students would have more time to eat breakfast in the morning. Another reason why I agree because the students will be able to go to sleep easier, and will not...
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...It was an early school morning and Sally still has not gotten up. Her bus would leave in approximately an hour. Sally has always had a difficult time waking up in the morning; she would always stay up past her bedtime because she had a difficult time falling asleep at night. This particular time, she stayed up and was worked on her group English project; she only had two hours and thirty minutes of sleep and was expected to wake up at five am. During peoples' teenage years, they experience a change in their internal sleep clock. Teenagers should have their high school classes begin later in the day and end later in the day. High school starting later benefits the students in many ways. First, they will be wide awake in class and ready to learn....
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...more hours before having to leave for High School. Sounds like a hallelujah in the darkness! But what if it wasn’t? What if there were too many problems after school gets out? Chesterfield County is considering a time change for High Schools, and I must say that this is a terrible idea. Teens would just stay up later, they cannot take care of their younger siblings, and Specialty Center students or Marching Band students would not get home until five or seven PM. Teens would just have an excuse to stay up even later than they do now. The county may think teens would willingly sleep at the same time they do now, but the majority would just stay up hours later, whether or not they had a choice. Many...
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...Should high school schedules begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m .? People under the age of 16 need at least 10 hours of sleep to function. It also has been scientifically proven that everyone doesn't properly function until 9 o'clock. So getting up at 6 isn't helping anybody, and it just makes students tired, thererfore and they don't concentrate as well. It is not fair on students who are tired. They cannot go to bed earlier because they get about 3-4 hours of homework a day. I think this because 90% of students that wake up at 6a .m or 7a.m are not fully rested, and if you are tired in at school then your brain can not function properly . Doctors say that starting school earlier in the morning prevents children and teenagers from getting a full night’s sleep, which can affect their health, safety and academic performance. Students need enough time to rest since their school day is about 7 hours. Every student sleeps different; most need at least 9-10 hours a night. Let’s say if a student sleeps at 11pm, which most of the students do, he/ or she will wake up at around 5:30 - 6:00, which is not an enough amount of time to sleep for a teen. …...
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...Walking the halls of most American high schools during the morning hours, one might think they are in a zombie apocalypse. Students have bloodshot tired eyes, drinking red bulls and falling asleep in class. Not doing well, especially in first block classes. Over the past two decades The Sleep Foundation has been trying to suggest that high school should switch start times to later (later start times). Teenagers are told they should get around 8 hours of sleep at the minimum but nine to ten hours is ideal (Carroll). Teenagers are going through puberty and require more sleep than the average adult (Troxel). Only one out of ten students are getting the right amount of sleep each night (wake up calls). A typical teen who is sleep deprived are less likely to do well on a quiz or test than a student who is not...
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