Correlation Between Sleep And School Habits

Students need a good amount of sleep to be able to focus and get through the school day. Students ability to function during school is impacted by the quantity, regularity, and quality if their sleep (Wolfson 1). The quality of sleep is not only important for the students but it is also important for the teachers. The quality of sleep affects the way students and teachers act throughout the day. Daytime sleepiness and poor sleep quality on school days in students and teachers may comprise school and work performance (De Souza 5). Since students and teachers stay up so late at night, they tend to be very tired during the day. It is important to get sleep but it is more important to get a good sleep. There is not really a point in sleeping or trying to get sleep when it is not a good sleep because no matter what students will be tired during the day. While the quality of sleep is important, so is the amount of sleep a student or teacher is getting on school nights.

Sleep affects grades in more ways than one or two or even three. It affect how people feel, think, and act (Gruber,2013). This states that people that have less sleep behave differently than people that get the recommended amount of sleep for their age.They may be more likely to have mistakes in a class or job. They might even act different than they usually do. Sleep also has an affect of no motivation or effort in the work they do (Gruber,2013). This is important because this tells that the person that does not get enough sleep does not have much motivation or effort they put in to the work they perform.People with motivation tend to do things better than people that have none.

Many high school students wander into school each day shuffling around and trying not to pass out in their classes. In order to cut back on sleep-deprived teens, we must follow through with this solution; it would give students enough time to go to bed early and wake up at an appropriate time. According to Sleep Foundation, teenagers require eight to ten hours of sleep and are not getting that with the current schedule. Many teenagers have discombobulated biological clocks and need the opportunity to adjust their sleeping schedule as they see fit. If this plan were to be put into practice, more positive attitudes would emerge from schools all over America due to their fulfilled need of sleep, which would give teachers, students, principals, counselors, and even parents a more productive start to each day. On the other hand, I realize that the opposing side of this intelligent solution may proclaim that some teenagers would abuse this and go to bed even later, but people must also realize that a large amount of teenagers who wish to succeed academically would gladly not abuse this and respect this privilege; although there would be some teenagers to mistreat this, it is up to the maturity level of the student, and they choose whether they want to succeed or

Many researches inform that sleep affects learning because people organize and absorb information during the REM (rapid-eye- movement) sleep. With an extensive amount of sleep time, students could absorb information more successfully. The effect of delay school start times on academics is obvious. In Finley Edwards’s research, the Wake County School District changed the first bell to an hour later, and this resulted in a three percent increase in both the math and reading standardized test scores. This change affects teenagers, who are most likely to begin puberty, the most. With the data given, teenagers' test grade have the most significant improvement. Also, Edwards finds out that with delayed start time, students use less time on watching television and more time on homework. Being able to sleep-in more improves students’ behaviors. Students are less likely to zone out or fall asleep in class. Absences and tardies decrease too (Edwards). This prevents students from missing information, and they would be able to learn all the knowledge they need in school. In a way, this could affect the world. With more education received, students would become more creative and view the world differently due to a tremendous amount of knowledge gained. They are the world’s future rising stars, and they are the ones that develop more solutions for global issues and improvements on the environment in the future. Students are the next generation of pillars for this country. The more information exposes to them, the brighter the future of this nation. Starting schools later means fewer tardies and absences, which can guarantee that they will absorb a massive amount of knowledge and

When students do receive enough sleep they have enhanced performance physically, mentally and academically. A study from the NSF (national sleep foundation) found that students who had a school day starting 1 hour later

Another reason is that teens would show significant improvements in school performance.They get more sleep to stay up and pay attention during class.Students who reported higher grades had more sleep time and earlier bedtimes on school nights than those with lower grades.Furthermore, students with lower grades also went to bed on average 2.3 hours later on the weekends than on school nights, compared to A/B students, who went to bed 1.8

Studies have shown that an hour more of sleep gave the students a 2.32 percent difference in test scores. That may not sound like much but in though that can bring a B+ to an A. “A recent poll conducted by the National sleep foundation found that 60% of children under the age of 18 complained of being tired during the day, according to their parents, and 15% said they can’t focus as well with less sleep,” said sleepfoundation.org. Students can’t focus with less sleep because their brain isn’t fully awake to let them pay attention in class. If students are not getting the sleep they need then they can ruin their chance at a high paying college or career.

The American education system is diverse and unique, and one aspect that varies wildly across the country is school start times. Deciding the start times for schools is dependent on many factors including bus schedules (Edwards, 2012), biological development (Borlase, Gander, & Gibson, 2013; Perkinson-Gloor, Lemola, & Grob, 2013), and parental preference (Edwards, 2012; Perkinson-Gloor et al., 2013). School start times are considered one aspect that can affect sleep duration, since they affect wake time. Adequate, high quality sleep is extremely important for adolescents and inadequate sleep can lead to a number of negative outcomes including poorer physical and mental health, as well as poorer academic performance (Borlase et al., 2013; Edwards, 2012; Keller, Smith, Gilbert, Bi, Haak, & Buckhalt, 2015; Paksarian, Rudolph, Jian-Ping, & Merikangas, 2015; Perkinson-Gloor, et al., 2013). Therefore, school start times are important to the field of education, because start times affect sleep and sleep, or lack thereof, can affect cognitive ability and performance. We are always looking to improve our schools and better educate our children, and the adjustment of the start time is a small change that may have a big impact.

Some people may argue that if the pupil goes to sleep earlier they won’t fall asleep in class, however many kids have after school clubs and activities, as well as homework that controls what time they go to bed at. “What Jilly found is that teens need at least 8.5 hours of sleep a night. But getting that much snooze time can be a challenge. Homework, after-school jobs, and extracurricular activities keep teens up late.” (O’Neill 20). This shows that many elements of a teen’s afternoon could

As a student at Kingsland High School, I have frequently needed to wake up before six in the morning. There are seldom times where I have actually got the amount of sleep that is required for someone my age. The solution to mine and everyone else’s problem is to start the school day later in the day. Scientists have found that adolescents need, on average, nine to nine and a half hours of sleep per night, but two-thirds of teenagers reported sleeping less than seven hours a night. This causes multiple students to be sleep-deprived throughout the school day. This weakens the student's learning, memory, attention capability, and even impairs their health. Studies have shown a link between mental illnesses, a weakened immune system, and higher stress due to sleep-deprivation. Academics also are affected when schools start later in the morning. Teachers in schools that start early have noticed an improvement in the classroom when teenagers are more alert, less moody, and less tired as a result of a great night's sleep. Although there are several benefits of starting the school day later, frequently people disagree with the adjustments.

Sleep is very important for someone to function properly throughout their daily lives. The longer you stay awake, the more you will feel tired, because of your internal biological clock, the circadian rhythm. Sleep helps us to regenerate our bodies from the previous day, helping us recuperate. It also helps to restore and rebuild our memories of our experiences of the day. A good amount of sleep also helps creative thinking and supports growth and muscle development. For my survey, I was wondering if sleep would affect the average high school student’s grades (or GPA).

One of the main reasons that teenagers are experiencing sleep deprivation is due to "hectic schedules with after school activities and jobs, homework hours and family obligations ; and a clash between societal demands, such as early school start times, and biological changes that put most teens on a later sleep-wake clock" (National Sleep Foundation, 2015). According to studies done by the National Sleep Foundation (2015) higher test scores are a beneficiary result that comes along with students that get more sleep. The developing brains are rested and as an outcome students were concentrated and achieved higher levels of knowledge. Letting students decide whether they want to attend school at later times will allow them to not only get the required amount of sleep hours, but to be responsible for raising their

Almost every day high school students are waking up around six o’clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier than that. Nearly every morning students are waking up without adequate sleep. If sleep is one of the most essential needs of the body in order to grow and develop, shouldn’t we be more aware of how much it affects students everyday performance? The ways in which students are affected by sleep-deprivation is precisely why school needs to start later.

Adolescents don’t choose to stay up late; they do know the consequences of being tired the next day. “The starting time of school puts limits on the time available for sleep, this is a nonnegotiable limit established largely without concern

Getting the adequate amount of sleep, can allow teens to be more prepared and focused in school. Schools have said that starting school at a later time has boosted standardized test scores. According to “A National Sleep Foundation poll found 59 percent of 6th through 8th graders and 87 percent of high school students in the U.S. were getting less than the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep on school nights.” (American Academy of Pediatrics). Many of the schools that have implemented a later start time have seen a positive change among the students. Teachers have noticed absences and tardiness decrease. As well as grade point averages increase in the student's first class of the day.