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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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We have become a tired society. People aren't getting enough sleep in one night.
Schools are doing nothing to help this problem, with schools starting earlier and giving out more homework each night, keeping their students up way too late and forcing them to get up early the next morning. There is a science behind high school students needing more sleep and going to bed later and waking up later, yet high schools continually start earlier than elementary and middle schools, whose students don't need to sleep in an much as high schoolers. Here is the science behind it . High schools should start later because the lifestyle of high schoolers demands it and the science behind it proves that high schoolers need more sleep compared to middle and elementary schoolers.
""http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/hot-topics/backgrounder-later-school-start-times""
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Chef flay, I very much so concur with this statement. Unfortunately there is one aspect you are missing: extra cirriculars. If there is a later start time, then there must be a later end time. This would cut into some serious time into sports and that, in return, would be a big dilemma. However, i do agree that elementary school students do NOT need the extra sleep in. Sure, it eases them in which each level of school starting a bit earlier than the next, but i vaguely remember as young whipper-snapper that i would get up no later than 8:30 on an average day. Now, i feel like i have no time for breakfast or to even get ready in the morning. The only way this can be changed is if there is a proposal for all extra cirriculars to start at a later time after school, or during that early morning in which the high schools are originally supposed to start at.
ReplyDeleteAt this point it has become a fact that with the stage of development that highschool teenagers are in they should be sleeping in much later then they do currently. This is a proven fact. Even though this is proven it Doesn't mean that it should be that way. If this were implemented then work would be during the same time which would leave middle school and elementary school children unattended. Many families would have to start putting their children in daycares or find someone who can watch their children.
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