What shocks me is that teachers don’t take into consideration about the students’ wellbeing! I mean, believe it or not, stated by the NHI, National heart, Blood and Lungs Institution, sleep deficiency cause people to be less productive at work AND school! Due to homework overdose, students have stayed up till midnight to finish off teachers’ requests. Only to set an alarm at 6 and have only 6 hours of sleep. Adolescents like us need at least 9 hours of sleep to perform well during the day. And did you guys know that sleep is divided into 5 stages that cycle through the night every 90 minutes. First, there is stage 1 and 2, which is called ‘light sleep’, while stages 3 and 4 are ‘deep sleep’. Though stage 5 is REM (also called Rapid Eye Movement), which is when you dream. Every noticed on the weekend, you always wake up rested and comfortable! You wake up naturally, and always happens during stages 1 or 2, light sleep. Though on school days, you have to set up an alarm and 95% of the time, we wake up in deep sleep, which makes us feel groggy and tempted to his the snooze button. Reference! Nature did not intend for us to wake up during deep sleep.
Offcourse, teachers never have and never will give a damn about a student’s social life. But maybe give a chance and think this over. Stressed people are basically nothing. What that means is that when someone is stressed, their brains are legit blocked. They’re anxious, tensed and don’t function the same way. Education always comes with a side