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.

[sadolakced acid]

everyone's sleep patterns are based off of sunlight, when there is sunlight.

in teenagers this bumps back 2-3 hours.

so teenagers sleep 2-3 hours later than adults (at night) and wake up even later.

this is the natural rythm of sleep for a teen.

[pandamonium]

everyone's sleep patterns are based off of sunlight, when there is sunlight.

in teenagers this bumps back 2-3 hours.

so teenagers sleep  2-3 hours later than adults (at night) and wake up even later.

this is the natural rythm of sleep for a teen.

thats not 100 percent true. other factors include a persons schedule. what if someone has work at night or someone starts school later.

a research studied showed a woman who was locked in a room for 3 months with nothing to do but read and it showed that in the next 3 months her average day for being awake was 44 hours. so if she didnt have a schedule her sleep wouldnt have been affected.

[sadolakced acid]

thats not 100 percent true. other factors include a persons schedule. what if someone has work at night or someone starts school later.

a research studied showed a woman who was locked in a room for 3 months with nothing to do but read and it showed that in the next 3 months her average day for being awake was 44 hours. so if she didnt have a schedule her sleep wouldnt have been affected.

that's without sunlight.

actually, any light will do.

when the body senses it's getting dark, it starts releasing a hormone that makes you tired.

and when it gets bright, it stops the hormone.

in teenagers, this hormone takes longer to have effect.

also, people can ignore the hormone. but it's still produced in relation to light.