Sleep Deprivation In Teen Students

As a result of a changing body and mind, adolescent sleep cycles have different needs than those of adults or younger children. As a matter of fact, Biologically, sleep patterns shift toward later times for both sleeping and waking during adolescence -- meaning it is natural to not be able to fall asleep before 11:00 pm (“Teens”). In addition to biological change in sleep patterns, teenagers also tend to have eccentric sleep cycles. Obtaining less than healthy hours of sleep during the school week and then catching up on their sleep on the weekends. Most teenagers during the school week, do not get the suggested amount of sleep. In fact, according to a recent poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, 80% of teenagers do not get the suggested amount of sleep of 9 hours on school nights (“School Start”). With changing bodies and minds, along with an increased amount of schoolwork and extracurricular activities, teenagers need more sleep than children of a younger age. Experts believe that moving back the start time of school for high school students will improve grades, test scores, and the overall health and personality of many students.

When someone imagines the ideal high schooler, the social norm seems to always be staying up late, and waking up early. But this trend has taken a toll on the student’s brain. The problem with early start times in schools is that kids are just too tired to think at 7 or 8 o’clock in the morning. This is important because this topic is a common issue right now in schools. Palm Desert High School has a late start on Wednesday’s because it gives teachers the time to have their meetings, but it also gives us high schoolers an extra hour or so of sleep. According to the article “Sleep in Adolescents (Thirteen-Eighteen Years),” the average amount of sleep high schoolers get is between 7 and 7 1/2 hours. High Schoolers should be getting between 9 and 9 1/2 hours but most teenagers need 9 1/2 hours of sleep. Late start values kid’s education and thinking abilities by letting them get more sleep

On average in today’s society most teens don’t like going to school that early in the morning. To have to wake up so early when they only get about seven hours of sleep, to have students be coming into school at 7:30AM or maybe even earlier in some other schools, is not right. Students need to have time at night to get work done, not only schoolwork but also non-schoolwork. Needless to say, the school schedule for high school students needs to be changed and be made where they go in later. That way they get their work done and get enough sleep because without much sleep students will not be getting high grades. A health survey that the University Health Center administered showed them that one in four students say that lack of sleep has

Sleep is very important for everyone. It is especially important for adolescents who are still developing. Brain development and recharging of the body are both things that take place while an adolescent sleeps. Without enough sleep, the body isn’t prepared for the next day. The body needs to get the recommended hours of sleep or it won’t perform to its best ability. In adolescents, this is an issue because scientists are finding teens are getting less and less hours of sleep due to hectic schedules causing their bodies to be worn out. Research is showing that by having schools start later, teens are getting the sleep they need to be awake and alert for the next day. Today, most schools start around 8:00 am or earlier at about 7:30 am. School

Sleep deprivation in teens is a growing concern in America. Teens should be getting eight to twelve hours of sleep a night, yet many are getting seven or less (Orr). This lack of sleep affects their thinking, their driving, their mood, their behavior, and their future health. External and internal factors contribute to insufficient sleep. Suggestions such as enforced bedtimes and less media exposure can only help a little. On the other hand, allowing teens to sleep-in on a daily basis could be a great benefit. Schools in America start early in the morning. In a survey of forty schedules posted on the Internet from high schools across the country, 48% started at 7:30 AM or earlier, whereas only 12% started between 8:15 a.m. and 8:55 a.m. (Millman 1776). Besides robbing teens of four to seven hours of sleep per week, this schedule works against their natural sleep cycle. School start times need to be made later to help teens get the amount of

Many of high school students are tired of getting up early for school, and there are many reasons behind that. We, the students, feel that being tired slows down our learning process. If school were to start later, every student would get their desired sleep and be ready for the day ahead. Even when the students go to bed early, they’re still too tired, and it’s extremely difficult to learn anything at all, especially if you’re not in the most thrilling of classes. Hanover Research stated that students who get more sleep shown a significant rise from mood and alertness to fewer automobile accidents and engagement in high risk behavior.*

Lack of sleep is becoming an increasing concern in adolescents and its effect on their lifestyle. Mainly, their attitudes in school and outcomes in their test scores. Less than half of American children get at least nine hours of sleep each night, and 58 percent of 15- to 17-year-olds regularly sleep fewer than seven hours each night (The Atlantic). In this essay I’m going to explain the problem of lack of sleep, the solution to the problem, discard refutations, give a visualization of a correct sleep schedule, and do my best to convince you of the importance of a correct sleep schedule.

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.

68.9% of High school scholars do not get the recommended amount of sleep on an average school night. High school students remain exhausted of waking up every weekday at 5am just to manage getting ready for school. Student’s can’t concentrate and manage a healthy lifestyle to obtain an education if the scholar is half awake. Personally you can witness when students come into class to put their head down and just go to sleep through the lesson, or you even recognize heavy bags under their eyes when you take a glimpse at the student’s face. High School students should start school later in the morning, considering that scientific studies show that the young teens academic levels are fatally decreasing. Students decide to fall asleep in class,

Today the average Circadian rhythm for adolescents is to begin sleeping at 11pm and to wake up at 8am. About ⅔ of high school students get less than the recommended eight hours of sleep per night and ⅖ students claim they get 6 hours or less of sleep. “Since the 1990s, sleep researchers and other health professionals have been telling us that these early school hours are harming children. It's not just the numbers of hours of sleep, but also the timing of sleep that is required for optimal health.” (National Sleep Foundation) The lack of sleep can give way to health problems such as weight gain, cardiovascular problems, mood swings and even can affect brain development. Some school districts have begun to have a later start and many of them have seen an increase in graduation rates, attendance and a lower accident rate on their

Teenagers are often viewed as unmotivated and lazy, but little thought goes into the contributing factors of this mindset. The article “The Science of Sleepy Teenagers” by Russell Foster proves how school early start times are not conducive to learning, and in fact, prove to be the opposite. Sleep deprivation in teenagers can lead to the neglect of their biological needs, social impairment and an increase in health concerns. As a result of this, teens are suffering.

Most teenagers need at least 9 hours of sleep per night in order to stay focused. Yet the period of this 9 hours shifts as a person grow older. After puberty, the body’s internal clock changes so that it is difficult for teens to fall asleep before 11pm. So even if a student go to sleep at 11, they would need to sleep until at least 8am to get a full night's sleep. Considering the time at which most high schools in this country begin, those nine hours are clearly being cut short. Few high schools starts after 8am. However, there are schools that have paid attention to this research and pushed forward the start of their school day. In 2015 Fairfax county High Schools changes its morning schedule and pushed forward an hour for students to get

With so much going on for the youth in this era, sleep is not a priority for teenagers. Instead, staying up past midnight to finish an essay (such as this one), waking up at 4:30 in the morning to work out before school begins, and having no time to snooze in the afternoon due to after school activities and homework all have a piece contributing with sleep deprivation that turns millions of American teens into zombies living off of Monsters. The truth is, when the opportunity for sleep is presented to teenagers, many would rather do a leisure activity instead of catching up on their loss of endless hours of sleep. Even if the school hours were changed to a later start, many teenagers would still rather stay up doing leisure activities, they

May 30, 2015, marked the end of my high school career, and as I walked the graduation line, two things kept ringing in my head, “No more waking at 5:00am, and I no longer have to catch the bus at 6:17am,” which made me really happy. Imagine how many high school students across the United States feel the same after high school or during twelfth grade. Over the years, early school start times has been attributed to some of the reasons why students have been unable to perform well because they have been deprived of sleep. Sleep is an essential part of our daily lives and without it, we will be unable to function, as it is known that sleep is needed for optimum performance. It is one of the factors that determines how much effort we put into our daily activities, and it has several health benefits on our minds asides from the obvious ones known to people; moreover, one might conclude that it determines a whole lot of things pertaining to our daily lives. Despite the fact that we are aware of the many effects and benefits of sleep, most students in the United States are denied these benefits through early school start times, and this has several adverse effects on students academically and mentally. Schools should start later in the morning as early school start times impairs the performance of students greatly, affects students’ cognitive abilities, and denies students an adequate amount of sleep. (Finley).

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