Nick Spehar
Mrs. Gordienko
World Literatures Honors
29 October 2014
The Unseen Damage Done to High School Students According to Benjamin Franklin, "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," (School Start Time and Sleep). This isn’t so true for teenagers. Studies show that most school bells ring as early as seven o’clock in the morning (School Start Time and Sleep). When students don’t get to bed until eleven or twelve o’clock at night, the kids can get a maximum of seven or six hours of sleep. With the less sleep each night, students will have a much harder time doing anything. Due to the schools starting time being so early students are prone to being drowsy in class causing them to not remember the information, …show more content…
This is due to how early school starts and how late students get to sleep. Teenagers usually require nine and a half hours of sleep. These students need so much sleep because during sleep, important body and brain functions occur. When teenagers don’t get the optimum hours of sleep, the young adults will often get moody, look bad, and not perform to the best of their abilities. This will greatly affect student test scores and the way the students will perform in sports or activities after school. When a teenager’s brain is sleep deprived, the brain will get the sleep it needs. This is why about fifteen percent of high school students admit to falling asleep in class (Teens and Sleep). When a student falls asleep in class, they doesn’t get the information they needs causing them to do even worse in the class than they already are. All of this is due to the school day starting too early and not allowing students to the optimum nine and a half hours of sleep needed for their body and brain to perform at the maximum …show more content…
With school starting a whole two hours later, students can stay up two hours later. Also since school will start later, school will also end later making it just as hard as it does when it started early. However, since school starts later the students can get up earlier and do some to most of their homework in the morning. Students can get up at seven o’clock in the morning and do an hour to an hour and a half of homework before they get ready for school. So, they can go to bed that much early and get up a little bit before school and then go to school. This would allow the students to get their nine and a half hours of sleep required for teenager bodies and brains to function
Mrs. Gordienko
World Literatures Honors
29 October 2014
The Unseen Damage Done to High School Students According to Benjamin Franklin, "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," (School Start Time and Sleep). This isn’t so true for teenagers. Studies show that most school bells ring as early as seven o’clock in the morning (School Start Time and Sleep). When students don’t get to bed until eleven or twelve o’clock at night, the kids can get a maximum of seven or six hours of sleep. With the less sleep each night, students will have a much harder time doing anything. Due to the schools starting time being so early students are prone to being drowsy in class causing them to not remember the information, …show more content…
This is due to how early school starts and how late students get to sleep. Teenagers usually require nine and a half hours of sleep. These students need so much sleep because during sleep, important body and brain functions occur. When teenagers don’t get the optimum hours of sleep, the young adults will often get moody, look bad, and not perform to the best of their abilities. This will greatly affect student test scores and the way the students will perform in sports or activities after school. When a teenager’s brain is sleep deprived, the brain will get the sleep it needs. This is why about fifteen percent of high school students admit to falling asleep in class (Teens and Sleep). When a student falls asleep in class, they doesn’t get the information they needs causing them to do even worse in the class than they already are. All of this is due to the school day starting too early and not allowing students to the optimum nine and a half hours of sleep needed for their body and brain to perform at the maximum …show more content…
With school starting a whole two hours later, students can stay up two hours later. Also since school will start later, school will also end later making it just as hard as it does when it started early. However, since school starts later the students can get up earlier and do some to most of their homework in the morning. Students can get up at seven o’clock in the morning and do an hour to an hour and a half of homework before they get ready for school. So, they can go to bed that much early and get up a little bit before school and then go to school. This would allow the students to get their nine and a half hours of sleep required for teenager bodies and brains to function