Sleep In High School

A high school student is one of the most hard working and sleep deprived individuals in the education system, especially a student that aims for success. As a student advances in high school, their schedule becomes jam packed with homework, social activities, and managing puberty, so where does sleep fit in? It seems that sleep becomes the insignificant factor in the already busy and hard to manage schedule, but students are not to blame. Instead, the early morning start of many high schools, which can be altered, is to blame. Sleep is nearly impossible to fit into the schedule of a student because it seems the high school regimen does not regard sleep as a necessity to success. Emily Richmond, the public editor for The Atlantic, reports more than 40 of the 50 states begin the school day earlier than 8:30 a.m., which in turn prevents many sleep deprived students with busy schedules from having the chance to obtain the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep needed per
Of course, homework and puberty are unavoidable, and socializing is a necessity to human life, but as each becomes more time consuming along with an early start to school, sleep can only find a spot in the schedule during the late hours of the night. Eventually, after sleep deprivation becomes a chronic pattern, damage to a healthful student is soon to follow. Developing such a chronic pattern threatens the physical health, emotional stability, and academic performance of a student. No student should not have to face such difficulties in order to receive a high school education, so in order to combat this growing problem, the causes and effects of sleep deprivation on high school students must be recognized, consideration should be given to changing the high school schedule to better suit the needs of students, and the process of change must be put