Summary Of Our Kids Need More Sleep

The Students Need Sleep In the article entitled “Our Kids Need More Sleep”, by Valerie Erde, the author reports the benefits of changing the start time of school to a later time. Erde believes that to excel in school students need adequate sleep. Multiple studies suggest that students perform better and are more alert when they have had proper rest. Opposingly, when students do not receive enough sleep they tend to not perform as sufficiently and are more likely to be depressed. Through personal experience, from the past and currently, I agree with Valerie Erde that schools should begin at later times so that students can receive ample sleep and succeed more in school. Valerie Erde includes several pieces of evidence in her article that prove that students do perform reasonably better in schools that have changed their start time to later times. In an article from Psychology Today (Feb. 27, 2011) evidence proves that there is a dramatic decrease in the rate of car accidents for sixteen-seventeen year olds. The leading cause of death for teens are car accidents and if helping students get more sleep means that the rate of deaths would drastically change, school times should
“In communities that make the change, or actively try to do so, oft-cited obstacles are: the ‘inconvenience’ of changing the bus schedule, the athletic schedule, or the teachers’ commutes” (Erde). Parents with this claim believe that it is crucial not to change the bus and teachers’ schedules because they are more important than students academic performance. What they do not realize is that in the long wrong the students academic success is more important to worry about because it determines their future. They have a long life ahead of them and should not have to suffer because they were not able to perform well in schools that had the option to help them perform more