Changing School Starting Times: Better Sleep for Everyone Sleep and education are both very important to people everywhere‚ but today a dilemma occurs that has a significant amount of students fighting to maintain both. As adolescents enter and endure high school‚ their bodies begin to undergo changes that affect the way they sleep‚ needing longer sleep at later times of the night. The problem with this is that adolescents’ sleep needs clash with their need for education‚ because high school begins
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Starting high school later in the day would be beneficial for high school students. One positive example for a later start time is‚ “Nauset Regional High School on Cape Cod‚ which pushed its start time to 8:35 am four years ago. They saw tardiness fall by 35 percent and the number of D’s and F’s drop by half" (Vaznis). That is a notable difference. There are many other beneficial reasons to start high school at 8-8:30. Benefits include an increase of sleep‚ which leads to better overall student
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English 11 28 February 2017 High School Late Start Time Many high school students are feeling that they are not getting enough sleep. This has caused many people to question the early start times‚ because “For the first time‚ the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is trying to get schools to have a later start time” (Richmond). Many doctors have confirmed that not getting enough sleep at night can lead to big problems such as slowed reaction time and even as far as weight gain
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Group Dynamics Assignment 2 April 14th 2011 Roel van Beek 776541 Maarten Cuypers 304976 Lisa Schoone 980947 Danique Seggelinck 597728 From the moment people live in groups‚ leaders exist. Although groups can function without‚ the leader role is usually the first to emerge. Especially large groups are in need for one to make rules clear‚ keep members informed‚ and make group decisions (Forsyth‚ 2006). Leadership is does not necessarily mean power
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uncooperative‚ and irresponsible. Adults tend to complain about their children never waking up on time‚ but little do they know that their adolescent children have different sleeping patterns that enables them to stay up late‚ and arise late. High school students experience enough stress considering their homework load‚ and they also suffer the hardships of waking up remarkably early in the morning for school. Be that as it may‚ adolescents still have to discern how to wake up early to be prepared for
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1020 12 October 2011 High-School Starting Time Is waking up an hour later really worth it in high school? In the article High-School Starting Time‚ Jeff Varley‚ the author is trying to convince his audience of the troubles that high school students are going through by being forced to wake up early every morning for school. Varley wrote this essay his freshman year in college. The writer hopes to convince people that the best choice for high school students is for school to open later. In my opinion
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“BrrrrriinnnnnnnnngBrrriinnnnnnnnnnnnngg!!” goes the morning alarm clock‚ it is time for school. The average high school student’s start time is 7:59 a.m.‚ which health experts say is not an ideal time for a for the beginning of a high school student’s school day. That early in the day most students are not alert nor focused on what they are doing. Being focused during class is crucial in high school. Teachers are learning to let the students have more freedom‚ which means the notes do not simply
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87 percent of high school teens are not getting the sleep that is recommended for a healthy lifestyle. Because school starts at an early time the time for sleep is compressed to a point where their minds and bodies are not ready to be awake ( Richter‚ Ruthann). Due to having a cell phones teens are staying up later after doing homework to check their social media account‚ talk to family members‚ and to catch up on the new they missed out on in school With the academic stress that is put on to teenagers
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and are expected to achieve high academic standards. According to a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study‚ data from the US Department of Education displayed that in 2011 and 2012‚ around 1 in 5 schools began at 8:30 ("Schools Start Too Early"). These early start times endanger students sleeping schedules‚ as reported by The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that middle schools and high school students should receive about 8.5-9.5 hours of sleep each night ("Schools Start Too Early"). In a study
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doing drugs ‚ and not going to school Instead of enjoying their teenage life the right way and going to school to have a successful life. Madison county has a lot to do with this problem and should actually be very ashamed about it ‚ as being in high school i hear a lot from older generations that school & anderson are’nt the same that school is’nt fun like it use to be and that anderson use to have a lot of fun things to do . Anderson expects kids to come to school 8 hours a day‚ 5 days out of
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