High School Research Paper

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I feel that school starts extremely way too early. School starting at 7:30 AM profusely hinders my learning. I feel that if school started at a more reasonable time most students would come on time. Students in high school need lots of sleep. We are growing and our minds are still developing. Most high schoolers are also working part time jobs. I get off of work at 11:00 PM and by the time I am home and ready to do homework or even eat dinner I am half asleep drowsy and nodding off. This causes me to fall behind in class. Also when I don't get sleep the night before school I often find myself asleep in most of my first couple classes of the day.

For students that work jobs after school, having to be at school before 7:30 is tremendously stressful. I know this from personal experience. I start work at 5:00 PM and get off at 11:00 PM and get to sleep by 12:30 or 1 in the morning. Most of the time on the days after I work I wake up late sometimes at 6:45 AM. This means I am at most getting 6 hours of sleep. When I wake up I feel drowsy all day and the cycle just repeats. I have found myself to be way more irritable and angry than i have been in the past before school started and I started working. According to the national sleep foundation they stated “Research shows the typical
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This can drop students grades. When I fall asleep in class I often find it hard to catch up in the class on what I missed. I wake up confused on the subject. With most students we just give up until the next period. I see this happen at least 4 times every period. Most students will just accept that they did bad and missed out on the assignments not knowing there is always a way to catch up on their missed work. According to startschoollater.net they say “starting school at these hours has now been linked not only to widespread sleep deprivation but also to a host of physical, psychological, and educational