Monday, September 7, 2015

Stress Behind the Textbook & How It May Prevent Sleep (Blog Four)

   In an article by the Daily Messenger, titled "Our view: Our students need more sleep for health, safety, academics" (Here's that link). The author talks of how the CDC is attempting to convince schools to start school anytime after 8:30am since most students' natural body clocks may prevent them from falling asleep before 11pm the night before, even without a cell phone or any other distraction keeping them up at night. According to our studies in class, adolescents should receive about 11hours of sleep and if their body clocks aren't allowing them to fall asleep before 11pm, and they are waking up on average around 6 or 7 in the morning for classes, that means many of these students are only receiving 7 hours of sleep. Imagine how much better the kids would preform in school given the chance to receive the amount of sleep their brains/bodies actually need.


"Our View: Our Students Need More Sleep for Health, Safety, Academics." Daily Messenger. N.p., 16 Aug. 2015. Web. 7 Sept. 2015.
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 8, 2015 at 5:09 PM

    I think starting public schools a little later would be a great idea to try. I remember struggling to wake up and make it through the day in high school.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 8, 2015 at 8:16 PM

    In a perfect world we would have a nap time during one of our low points, maybe around 2 in the afternoon. I feel like that would have made high school much more enjoyable. But since that will never happen unless I became the president, starting schools at a later time would benefit the students greatly. Because they will stay up to the same time, but get more sleep. But what if they stayed up later because they got up later? Would it still benefit the students? (I think so) what's your opinion?

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  3. UnknownSeptember 14, 2015 at 2:54 PM

    I agree with you completely! Waking up a little later could combat the lack of sleep most kids experience due to homework or other "work". I do wonder the same as Makayla though, would that still make up for it, or would it further harm them?

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