sleep Options

[smile4me]

whee i just did a presentation on this...

should schools start and end at a later time so teens can get more sleep?

consider
-lack of sleep among teens
-how the time to go to school becomes earlier as we move up from elementary to junior high to high school. (at least it is in my case)
-too much homework/studying

my school starts at 7:45, but the bus picks us up at 6:45. we get to school around 7:15 and then we just do w/e we need to do before school starts (homework, make up a test/quiz, music stuff, etc).
its not mandatory to get to school this early, though.
i think that school should start later because it's been proven that teens biological clocks "wake up" at a later time. which means that if we go to school later, we learn better.

[heyyfrankie]

my school starts at a different time than yours...mine starts at 8:30!
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but i think that school shoule start between 7:30 and 8:30 because even though teens have lack of sleep, 90 percent of the time they don't get enough sleep is because they are out partying. the other 10 percent is due to studies or other valid reasons.
and since we are getting older, we should be able to wake up earlier and start school earlier because it is getting us prepared for the real world.
on this next point, i am talking from my point of view...
i think that if teens/kids would actually pay attention, not talk, do their homework in school than there would not be so much homework. now, at my school, we get between 10 - 15 minutes to work on it before we have to go to next period. so even if you don't get any time before class to work on your homework, if you are paying attention during class and actually know the material, homework time and studying time would dramatically reduced.