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.

[gOODpIRATE]

you know what, as crazy as that may sound, i think i totally agree, but this only should apply with high school students. all the points you made are correct. but i think that high school students have way more responisbilites than lets say, a 4th grader. middle schoolers have lots more responibilities than an elementary schooler, but no way even close the the stress of being in high school.

so i agree with you, if we go to school later, and get out later, then we can retain more information because we are fresh, AWAKE [<notice how a typed awake in all caps because falling a sleep in the middle of a lecture isn't all that good when you want to pass the class], and performing at your physical and mental best.