Does it feel like school starts too early? Why is it that students always seem too tired to function during the day? If it does, it probably means they may not be getting a sufficient amount of sleep, causing poor intended achievements for both the students and the school. This could be avoided if school start times were pushed back. Schools start around seven-thirty to eight-thirty in the morning and last 7 hours. Many students also have extracurricular activities, which issues those students to come home much later than regularly intended. Many people argue that schools should not start later because the kids wouldn’t be able to have time after school for extracurricular activities or work (Weissmann, par. 6). According to Marie Anderson,
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Starting school early can cause sleep deprivation. “Although a number of factors, including biological changes in sleep associated with puberty, lifestyle choices, and academic demands, negatively affect middle and high school students’ ability to obtain sufficient sleep, the evidence strongly implicates earlier school start times (prior to eight-thirty a.m.) as a key modifiable contributor to insufficient sleep...” (American Academy, par. 1). Around the age of thirteen to fifteen years old, most teens begin to go through puberty. During the adolescent years, a teenager goes through countless biological changes, and at the same time they are experiencing a delay in their biology rhythms. Teens’ hormones make them want to go to bed and wake up later, therefore causing them to feel sleepy around eleven o’clock and don’t go to sleep until twelve in the morning or later (McGlinchey, 0:01). A teenager should normally get eight to ten hours of sleep every night because the shift from childhood to adulthood is vital and requires much more care than adults. Most teens either don’t or just barely get 8 hours of sleep every night. This means that school should not start any earlier than eight to nine in the morning (Simone, par. 2 & 3). Over time, sleep deprivation can result in a accumulation of mood swings, clumsiness, and possibly even …show more content…
Starting school later can improve the potential to focus. To be focused means to have the capability to concentrate and pay particular attention to a situation went presented. The ability to focus eases a person’s skill to learn by eliminating distractions like sleep. When a student gets more sleep, they are more awake during the day and more alert. Sleep also helps with memory, and shut-eye also appears to help reinforce memory. These benefits all work to help a student’s aptitude to learn (Baffour, Boser, & Brown par. 11). Having enhanced memory and improved attention to detail can benefit in all situations, especially in difficult circumstances, like preventing a costly mistake (Psychology Dictionary, par. 1). For example, if a student were to be exhausted the morning he or she comes to school, they wouldn’t be able to concentrate on their work and would constantly be reminded of
Starting school early can cause sleep deprivation. “Although a number of factors, including biological changes in sleep associated with puberty, lifestyle choices, and academic demands, negatively affect middle and high school students’ ability to obtain sufficient sleep, the evidence strongly implicates earlier school start times (prior to eight-thirty a.m.) as a key modifiable contributor to insufficient sleep...” (American Academy, par. 1). Around the age of thirteen to fifteen years old, most teens begin to go through puberty. During the adolescent years, a teenager goes through countless biological changes, and at the same time they are experiencing a delay in their biology rhythms. Teens’ hormones make them want to go to bed and wake up later, therefore causing them to feel sleepy around eleven o’clock and don’t go to sleep until twelve in the morning or later (McGlinchey, 0:01). A teenager should normally get eight to ten hours of sleep every night because the shift from childhood to adulthood is vital and requires much more care than adults. Most teens either don’t or just barely get 8 hours of sleep every night. This means that school should not start any earlier than eight to nine in the morning (Simone, par. 2 & 3). Over time, sleep deprivation can result in a accumulation of mood swings, clumsiness, and possibly even …show more content…
Starting school later can improve the potential to focus. To be focused means to have the capability to concentrate and pay particular attention to a situation went presented. The ability to focus eases a person’s skill to learn by eliminating distractions like sleep. When a student gets more sleep, they are more awake during the day and more alert. Sleep also helps with memory, and shut-eye also appears to help reinforce memory. These benefits all work to help a student’s aptitude to learn (Baffour, Boser, & Brown par. 11). Having enhanced memory and improved attention to detail can benefit in all situations, especially in difficult circumstances, like preventing a costly mistake (Psychology Dictionary, par. 1). For example, if a student were to be exhausted the morning he or she comes to school, they wouldn’t be able to concentrate on their work and would constantly be reminded of