Teens have a internal clock that causes you to feel more alert at night and wake up later in the morning. This makes it difficult to go to bed at a decent time and wake up feeling refreshed. Dr. Mindell the director of the Graduate Program in Psychology at Saint Joseph’s University says “sending students to school without enough sleep is like sending them to school with breakfast. Sleep serves not only a restorative function for adolescent’s bodies and brains, but it is also a key time when they process what they’ve learned during the day.” It is also important for teens to have a consistent sleep schedule throughout the week. Surveys show that teens rely on naps to make them more refreshed.
When you were a teenager, how often did you find yourself sleepy during school? How often did you fall asleep during class? Research probes that if schools had later start times kids would be more alert during the day, grades would improve, behavior would improve, and there will be less tardiness. Lets face it, most teenagers usually go to bed late, meaning they wake up late for school, and then result in tardiness. Constantly being for the same class, students begin to fail, and who wouldn't be upset from that?
However stuffing information into your brain takes time, which is taken up by being in school and other activities. By staying up late studying, we compensate for those lost hours and get a leg up on the students who didn’t stay up. Or so we think… In a study done by Pilcher and Walters, 44 college students were placed into either a sleep deprived, or non-sleep deprived group and allowed to sleep and wake up at certain time during the three-day experiment. After the three days were up, each group took a series of tests and questionnaires. When asked how they thought they did, the sleep deprived group reported to have had a higher level of concentration and an increased level of effort.
By the age of 6 months a circadian rhythm is established and by the age of 1 year infants are usually sleeping mainly at night, with 1 or 2 naps during the day. The periods of deep sleep lengthen and there is a reduction in the amounts of active/REM sleep. Sleep patterns change during childhood and by the age of 5, children have EEG patterns that look like those of an adult but they are still sleeping more (around 12 hours a day) and having more REM activity (about 30% of total sleep time). Boys are also found to sleep slightly more than girls. As childhood progresses, the need for sleep decreases, but in adolescence it increases slightly, to around 9 or 10 hours a night.
Later School Start Times Most students that go to school in the morning look like they just rolled out of bed and can appear to still be in a state of sleep. As the day continues, some students will remain just as drowsy and others report bouts of sleepiness occurring randomly throughout the day. The question lies, however, in whether or not this tiredness is due to the early start time that the majority of schools enforce. Considering biological explanations and adolescent sleep patterns combined with the general pulls and demands of society on a daily basis, it can be argued that schools should start at later times. The studies that have been conducted have provided promising results that show the positive outcomes resulting from altered
It also sounds like they are running down the hall throughout the night and slamming the door leading to the stairs loudly. It is totally understandable that freshman are new to college and are excited to be on their own but they have to keep the noise to a minimum. The noise is very disturbing. When students have 8:00 a.m. classes every day. They are very tired and are preparing for class the next day and they should not have to deal with the noise all night and this causes them to
http://youtu.be/YFW4zO17FrE http://youtu.be/BKXKBI8IZ24 ~How to Stop Sleep Debt Television/Electronics We all love to watch TV but at bed time should it be on? It has been researched that the noise that comes from the television keeps kids up at night! The noise isn’t the only problem… the light is too! All the flashing and bright colors distract kids and make them stay up later then they should be. Computers, cellphones, and video games are also very distracting kids stay up all night on social websites on their phone or laptop and talk to friends or post pictures….then they wait, wait for other kids to comment or like it and that keeps them up all night long!
A lot of kids use it as their only means of communication some dont socialize outside of their phones Sleeping late because you decided to stay up texting can have consequences.Texting during a class leads to, on average, a 27% loss of information. Students text for a lot of reasons like being bored in class, trying to stay awake or just trying to reply back to a text. Some teens are becoming seriously sleep
Back to High School Means Less Sleep for Students As bad as it is, the new school year is just starting up and students are already sleep deprived. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has declared the frequent sleep-iness of our nation’s teenagers to be a chronic public health crisis of the nation. The series of cases involving busy students, forced to stay up late at night in order to finish their home-work, need to do so if they plan to be successful. These teens are involved in a variety of activities and have so much to do, from editing the school newspaper and playing second base on the softball team to working at the local deli to earn money to pay for a car, and don’t usually start working on their homework until late after when “normal” citizens retire to sleep. The AAP called on schools to start later so students could get additional sleep.
Most families turn to technology to keep their children occupied without realizing that excessive consumption may harm their health. For example, when kids spend late night hours sitting in front of the TV screen, they get an inadequate amount of sleep which leads to obesity overtime. Childhood Obesity & Technology – What’s the Connection,