time in the world to sit down and do all their homework‚ but in reality‚ we have lives too. Yes‚ schools should get rid of homework because it takes time away that we should be spending with family‚ extracurricular activities and may cause sleep deprivation and stress. To start off‚ when kids get home from school‚ we should not be doing homework‚ but spending important time with our family. Family time is precious and needs to be something that happens every night. Michael Gove says‚ “We are
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Deborah Salerno November 20‚ 2007 SLEEP DEPRIVATION & DRIVING Nothing could prepare me for the news I received six years ago about the unexpected death of my close friend Joey. I will never forget the night he died. How I had been with him just minutes before‚ and how his death was totally unnecessary and preventable. A few weeks before Christmas in 2001‚ Joey‚ myself and a few of my other co-workers were closing down the local restaurant we worked at while attending Umass Lowell. It had
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according to the National Sleep Foundation‚ children aged six to thirteen should get at least nine hours of sleep. But the average child in the United States only gets around seven hours of sleep‚ two hours less than the recommended amount.Schools should delay their start times because there are a handful of advantages that come with it‚ such as
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In “Today’s Exhausted Superkids‚” Frank Bruni discusses how sleep is a key factor in a child’s growth and development. However‚ many teenagers are too stressed to get the proper amount of sleep each night. Bruni mentioned this has only been an issue for the most recent generations. He says the problem used to be oversleeping and being late to class‚ but now the situation is quite the opposite. Teenagers these days are pushed to have the best grades‚ participate in a sport‚ have a job‚ and get into
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School Starts Too Early! Did you know at least 90% of students are sleep deprived from school starting too early (Mozes 2014)? School starting too early is an issue in today’s society because there are often children and teenagers that are sleep deprived from school starting too early. More than 87% of students in the United States get far less than the recommended 8-10 hours of sleep per night (Richter 2015). In addition‚ school starting too early is a serious threat to health‚ behavior‚ and academic
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control their biological sleep patterns‚ sleep deprivation has negative health and behavioral effects‚ and lack of sleep affects academics. First‚ adolescents have a certain biological sleep pattern that is out of their control. For example‚ because sleep “Is a matter of biology‚ not choice‚” teens generally can not fall asleep before 10:45 p.m. and remain asleep until around 8 a.m. (Wahlstrom). Most teens need to get 8 to 9 hours of sleep each night. Getting the right amount of sleep is essential for someone
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boards are responsible for balancing competing priorities in the face of limited resources‚ and should consider return on investment before embarking on such changes. The AAP’s Adolescent Sleep Working Group reviewed studies involving inadequate sleep in teens. Researchers analyzed the harmful effects sleep deprivation—anything less
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reduction theory‚ sleep is a primary drive which is reduced‚ and thus‚ reinforced by the act of sleeping. A behavioural sleep
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opportunities for high school students. The later start times will help reduce the risk of sleep deprivation‚ depression‚ and other health concerns amongst teens. It will also help reduce absences‚ increase their school performance‚ and allow students to get the recommended amount of sleep that their bodies need. My sources include case studies of schools that have tried the later time and research of teenager sleep patterns. As children get older their school time starts earlier every few years
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In “Naptime” by Matt McCarthy‚ he discusses with us the importance of sleep and how sleep affects our everyday lives. McCarthy starts by introducing us to Major League Baseball player Mike Napoli. Napoli has been struggling with Sleep Apnea since his early twenties. Napoli informs us on how he would wake up fifty to one hundred times a night while trying to sleep because of his difficulty with breathing. This began to have an affect on Napoli‚ making him exhausted because he was not able to get a
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