Later School Times

In the article, “Early school starts can turn teens into Zombies’”, Stephen Ornes emphasizes how schools that start early can deprive students’ health. One study shows that early school start times can disrupt the consistency o the body’s circadian clock, which can cause health problems such as depression and obesity. Another reason for sleep deprivation is that the body goes through changes that include their sleeping process. The hormone, melatonin, is secreted later in the night, which makes the circadian cycle shift in a later time. These aspects could lead to troublesome symptoms such as lack of attention on the road. However, there are solutions to this problem. Students intake stimulants

To conclude, we can see how not only does more sleep make us prepared and more focused for the school day, but how it also affects our positive sleeping patterns, our ability to learn, and the amount of stress that our bodies receive. We see how many liable resources were used to conclude that sleep truly is one of the most important factors in a student's everyday life and supports the idea that school should begin later for the most positive results. Starting school later will truly minimize bad sleep patterns and habits, increase the amount of learning and lastly, put less stress on our minds and

You're in bed, feeling serene, having the perfect nights' sleep of your life. You wish it could go on eternally. Suddenly ''BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!", your alarm clock goes off and you comprehend that it's time for school, sound familiar? The subject of start times of school has been a very popular topic.  As many people already know, sleep is an exceedingly significant habit. As stated in the previous newscast, "Sleep physical, emotional, and mental health." Furthermore, students struggle with this habit.

If students come to school with their brain’s not fully functioning yet because of the lack of sleep they had gotten, it would be extremely difficult to do any work. This can lead to low test scores and an impact on their grades and scores. In Source A, Nancy Shute states, “We truly believe that our teenagers are getting six to seven hours of sleep a night, and they need eight to 10.” (page 1). Many teens aren’t getting the full sleep that they need. Instead they are losing three to four hours of sleep. This amount of lack of sleep can cause student’s to be tired while they are at school. Although there have been many reports insisting that teens should be getting eight to ten hours of sleep, only 15 percent of high schools have embraced the change and made their school start at 8:30 or later. Even worse the percentage of high schools that are starting before 8 a.m. is 40 percent. Some may argue their point that middle and high schoolers can sleep at an earlier time to gain the sleep they lose, but pediatricians say that as children become teenagers their sleep-wake cycle changes. According to Source A, Nancy Shute states, “As children become teenagers, their sleep-wake cycle shifts two hours late, so it’s

Early school hours prevent many students from getting the doctor’s requirement of 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep per night. “The CDC’s recommendations come a year after the American Academy of Pediatrics urged schools to adjust start times so more kids would get the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours of nightly rest” (Emily Richmond). Because the typical sleep cycle for teens begins around 11 p.m., this causes many

Later High school start times are also linked to teen car accident remarkably dropping. In the article, researchers found that a simple way to reduce car crashes was to “Start the High School Day later”, it was evaluated that in counties where school started early, there were more run-off the road crashes among teens. According to Palus, “They suspect that these might be directly due to sleep deprivation.This reveals that early school start times are a problem and school systems around the country should take a look at the data and consider whether they should delay them. The article also states that “researchers looked at two towns that were pretty much identical-except for the time that teens were expected to arrive at school. In one county,

Research tells us that the natural tendency for teenagers is to stay up late at night and wake up later in the morning. Evidence suggests that teenagers are indeed seriously sleep deprived. A recent poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation found that 60% of children under the age of 18 complained of being tired during the day, according to their parents, and 15% said they fell asleep at school during the year. According to the National Sleep Foundation’s “2002 Sleep in America” poll, 80% of respondents said high schools should start no earlier than 8:00 a.m. each day; nearly one-half of these respondents (47%) said start times should be between 8:00

In addition, one article states that “Regular and restful sleep is essential for good health, sleep helps you feel less stressed and helps you maintain a healthy diet. Students often have very stressful lives with activities such as going to class, working out, etc (“Despite”). Finally, the consequences of sleep deprivation in a student's teen years can be very serious. Teenagers spend most of the day in school, when they have to wake up for school so early, then be there all day, it can lead to them not getting enough healthy sleep. With this lack of sleep they are unable to get the most they can out of school. With little sleep students can not learn as much and could therefore not know important things necessary for life. Teenagers don’t get tired until about 11:00, so they don’t get enough sleep because school starts so early in the morning (“Effects”). Overall, many students do not get as much healthy sleep that they need. Without sleep, they can not learn as much as they could be with a good amount of

What do most kids in school struggle with? Grades of course, but so many students can hardly stay awake during school and this causes school to be so much more stressful and difficult. If students could get more sleep in the morning they could be so much more successful in school. Why is it that students don’t get enough sleep? It is because of how early the school bells are. If students could get at least an extra hour of sleep, they wouldn’t be as tired.

A recent study done by the National Sleep Foundation showed that only 15% of students get the necessary 8 ½ hours of sleep on school nights.Over the years, school’s starting times have been moved earlier in the day, which is affecting students and teachers’ performance . However, moving the times forward is a debated issue among the community. School start times should be moved forward to allow students more time to sleep. Delaying school start times can help students improve in their learning and performance, as well as, making the road safer for the new teen drivers and others on the road. Also, it can help improve the health of students and young teachers.

As a student at Kingsland High School, I have frequently needed to wake up before six in the morning. There are seldom times where I have actually got the amount of sleep that is required for someone my age. The solution to mine and everyone else’s problem is to start the school day later in the day. Scientists have found that adolescents need, on average, nine to nine and a half hours of sleep per night, but two-thirds of teenagers reported sleeping less than seven hours a night. This causes multiple students to be sleep-deprived throughout the school day. This weakens the student's learning, memory, attention capability, and even impairs their health. Studies have shown a link between mental illnesses, a weakened immune system, and higher stress due to sleep-deprivation. Academics also are affected when schools start later in the morning. Teachers in schools that start early have noticed an improvement in the classroom when teenagers are more alert, less moody, and less tired as a result of a great night's sleep. Although there are several benefits of starting the school day later, frequently people disagree with the adjustments.

To gain the right amount of sleep would mean that a teenager would have to go to bed at 9:30 pm. In the words of the American sleep researcher, Mary Carskadon, “we are asking 16-year olds to go to bed before 10pm. Rare is a teenager that will keep such a schedule.” She also goes to mention that with all the after school activities, such as athletics, clubs, employment, that “the ability even to have merely ‘adequate’ rest is lost.” After a student goes many consecutive days without the right amount of sleep, it can easily trigger sleep deprivation. In effect, the student’s ability to be “alert, pay attention, solve problems, cope with stress and retain information.” Losing these attributes in school can lower their decision making which can greatly affect their performance in “everything from academics to athletics.”

Many of high school students are tired of getting up early for school, and there are many reasons behind that. We, the students, feel that being tired slows down our learning process. If school were to start later, every student would get their desired sleep and be ready for the day ahead. Even when the students go to bed early, they’re still too tired, and it’s extremely difficult to learn anything at all, especially if you’re not in the most thrilling of classes. Hanover Research stated that students who get more sleep shown a significant rise from mood and alertness to fewer automobile accidents and engagement in high risk behavior.*

Starting the school day later can benefit the health and safety of many students. Eighty-five percent of teens do not receive the full amount of sleep that their body needs to function properly, resulting in numerous physical and mental health problems. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) states that the lack of needed sleep can result in depression, anxiety, stress, and even obesity. When teenagers wake up too early, their brains are just as asleep as their bodies. Research by the CDC and pediatricians suggests that starting school later will decrease the amount of teen car crashes since teens will be more aware with more sleep (Richmond). An abundance of teens rely on the use of caffeine or drugs to help them wake up which can be extremely

A study at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement showed that adolescents “internal clocks” or hormones that control the sleep schedule are released at different times of the day than those of other age groups. Thus, it is more difficult for a teen to go to bed early in the evening than an adult. In a study, Mary Carskadon, Brown University researcher, studied adolescent sleeping habits and found that 10th-graders who were making the switch to a 7:20 a.m. start time, about an hour earlier than their schedule as ninth-graders. Despite their new schedule, the students went to bed at about the same time as they did the year before: 10:40 p.m. on average. This results in only 5-6 hours of sleep (depending on the time it takes for the student to get ready and travel times), as opposed to the recommend 8.5-9.5. This lack of sleep can cause a decrease in average grades, higher rates of obesity, depression, motor-vehicle accidents among teens and an overall lower quality of life. This depicts the need for high schools to start later in the