“Sleep is a simple yet powerful potion with the ability to enhance learning, boost creativity, fight infection, fuel growth, and balance mood.” says Dr. Helene A. Emsellem, the author of Snooze...or Lose! Middle schools should change their start times to later in the day because more sleep means better academic performance, less sleep deprivation, and would positively affect athletic performance. People argue that a later start time will affect extracurricular sports, and that the bus schedules will conflict with the start times. An argument that there is still plenty of time after before the sun goes down in the fall and the winter to practice, and more sleep improves athletic performance. Schools should change their start time to later in the day because more sleep means better academic performance. As it says in npr.org, ‘Teens who get more sleep do better academically, with better standardized test scores and better quality of life.’ To be exact, students who get more sleep at night get better standardized test scores, and has better health, leisure, income, vitality, and happiness. Similarly, sleep can make students more intelligent, and can help them be more creative. To be precise, it makes it easier for students to solve …show more content…
Teens need 9 ¼ hours of sleep at night on average, but they are not getting that. Most teens are getting between 6 and 7 hours of sleep at night. Less sleep means less people with depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, and bad grades. Also less people with drug use. To be precise, sleep can help teens make better decisions, so they will not do have what I said above. Regular start times can lead to sleep deprivation. To be precise, regular start times can lead to sleep deprivation because with a regular start time. In summary, schools need to change their start times or more kids will have sleep deprivation, with terrible