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Have you ever noticed how tired some kids are in school? Have you noticed that the students can’t focus on their work? Have you noticed that they are up late trying to finish their homework? Well, I have the solution. I think that we should have nap time in school. With naptime, students will be able to function more easily and to a higher standard. As Anton Anderson, a high school teacher from Connecticut said, 20 extra minutes a day isn’t a substitute for 8 to 10 hours of sleep every night, but it does recharge the batteries. If 20 minutes does this much, think about what 40 minutes could do.

What do people think of when they first hear the word nap? Everyday sayings such as snatching a nap, being caught napping, snoozing, or stealing forty winks are all beneficial daily activities we need to add to our busy life. If we do, we will be more awake and capable to reach our full potential as an individual. People don’t realize how important a nap can be. Although popular beliefs suggest that naps are a waste of time, naps actually increase productivity by resting the brain.

After a long day at work and school, a student’s first wish is to sleep. The vast majority of teenage students must stay awake to complete schoolwork, resulting in them becoming sleep deprived. Students live off caffeine and energy drinks in order to stay awake in school, at work, and stay up late to complete their assignments. When they stay up, they get sleep deprived forcing them to continue drinking energy drinks and caffeine. Thus, this vicious cycle repeats. Sleep deprivation is a growing issue around the world; with teenagers, it causesboth physical and mental health issues along with a drop in their grades. To decrease the percentage of sleep deprived teenagers, schools should start at least half an hour later than their original

Many students, teachers, parents, and more throughout the country have a firm stance on the argument that school should start at a later time not only because of our diverse sleep patterns, but also because of the negative stress it puts on our bodies, and it even how it can influence our ability to learn. We hear of students constantly complaining about getting very little sleep every night during the school week. Many teachers, parents, and even other students getting better sleep seem to just blow it off or think that students are overexerting the problem. We are starting to see that there are actual negative effects from students, mainly in high school, losing sleep due to extra curricular activities, homework, and any other activities

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

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

“Even mild sleep deprivation has been associated with significant health and educational concerns: increased risk for accidents and injuries, impaired learning, aggression, memory loss, poor self-esteem, and changes in metabolism," ("Findings from Vanderbilt"). Students would also be more alert and prepared if they got more sleep. “Three studies reported mixed results concerning the association between later school start times and student alertness,” (“Findings from Vanderbilt”). Student alertness would also help with improvements in grades and participation within the classroom. Students would be in a better mood and mindset due to more sleep. "’They are much happier and feel like they are much better prepared coming into school,’ said Thomas Rolston, superintendent at Avonworth,” (“Western Pennsylvania”). Sleep can not only help to improve health, but can also help to improve the social benefits of

Throughout the United States, students are attending school with an insufficient amount of sleep. The early school start times our depriving the students of their much needed sleep. Students that must ride the school bus are forced to wake up even earlier than those who drive or get dropped off at school. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute states,”It is recommended for teenagers get between nine and ten hours of sleep” (qtd. in “The Economic Case for Letting Teenagers Sleep a Little Later”).

Sleep deprivation has become a wide spread issue in the United States. This spans from kids as young as 10 as far up as adults in their 40s and 50s. This causes these people to either be not at the top of their game, which can hinder their performance, and it can also make them start to get addicted to caffeinated beverages such as coffee and energy drinks. This issue could be solved with one thing, napping.

The United states suffers from sleep-deprivation in it's citizens, which can hinder their performance on the job, school, etc. This can be relieved a bit if the said people were allowed to nap sometime during the lunchbreaks they recieve. It would increase their performance and Employer's productivity would inturn increase aswell. According to research done by Robert Stickgold, Students would be able to focus in class much better after having napped midday. Inturn this would make for a better learning experience but also more effective teaching.

Schools that start before 8 a.m. are a major reason students aren’t getting adequate sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation teenagers need on average 8 ½ - 9 ½ hours of sleep a night(Schute, Nancy). Realistically students rarely get that much sleep. When students don’t get adequate sleep it has the ability to affect their attention span, memory, problem-solving ability, and mood(Rosenberg, Russell). Are these students actually expected to pay attention, learn, solve problems, and have an acceptable attitude when they wake up sleep deprived? With a sleep cycle that changes once students hit puberty and an increase in the production of melatonin its nearly impossible for teens to fall asleep before 10:30 p.m.(Edwards, Finley). In my own experience I don’t even get tired until around 11:30 p.m. and barely fall asleep before 12, so it makes it extremely difficult to wake up at 6 a.m. and get ready for the day.

A recent study showed that students do not fully wake up until around 10:30 A.M. proving that schools start way too early for them to absorb all the knowledge given to them. The main goal of a school is to educate their pupils but with the majority of them too tired to focus, the goal cannot be reached. A short while ago, a study was conducted to see if naps really did affect the attention span and focus of students in a classroom. Students who were allowed to

Although technology is to blame,the school and work aspects of peoples lives keep them awake at night with homework or work . These late nights spent working can put stress on a person which ultimately can lead to sleep problems. Naps throughout the day are beneficial to your health in these situations because when you are exhausted and stressed the next day, the quality of your work is going to be very poor.

I think naps are a solution. I think this because they relieve tiredness, improve performance, improves problems-solving skills, and is linked to a lower rate of heart disease. Naps aren't always the solution though. Only forty percent of people are even capable of resting during the day.

Did you know that the September 2011 study from the ‘Journal of Sleep’ states U.S. companies have lost $63 billion in lost productivity majorly due to lack of sleep? (http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/google-uber-and-other-companies-where-you-can-nap-at-the-office.html)This problem could be fixed if people could get more sleep; all workplaces should allow employees to take naps throughout the day. In the article ‘The Most Sleep-Friendly Companies in America’ Annie Hauser and Allison Takeda, senior editors for everydayhealth.com said, “28 percent of workers admitted that daytime sleepiness impacts their daily duties a few times a month, and it can lead to dangerous drowsy driving… and even increased