These consequences such as depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide coupled with the high school system are keeping the students in a vicious cycle. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the early start times of schools are preventing many adolescents from getting the recommended 8 to 10 hours of sleep. Getting enough sleep is crucial to adolescents’ health, safety, and academic performance. It seems that many high school students today are struggling with sleep deprivation, this may be in relation to 1 in 5 high schools starting earlier than 8:30am. Schools’ demands to start so early seem to cause adolescents to shift their sleep
These consequences such as depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide coupled with the high school system are keeping the students in a vicious cycle. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the early start times of schools are preventing many adolescents from getting the recommended 8 to 10 hours of sleep. Getting enough sleep is crucial to adolescents’ health, safety, and academic performance. It seems that many high school students today are struggling with sleep deprivation, this may be in relation to 1 in 5 high schools starting earlier than 8:30am. Schools’ demands to start so early seem to cause adolescents to shift their sleep