My seventh grade self was terrified of getting in trouble just for sticking up for someone who otherwise would not have helped themselves, which is exactly what I was doing. Anyone passing could feel the raging tension as the school counselor escorted me and two others down the hallway because he thought a fight was going to break out. Walking into the manly decorated counselor's office, Mr. Thorpe sat on the right side of me with the other two students, Maddie and Brooke, facing us. We were having…
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What if school started at 10 in the morning? Well, that would actually be worse than starting around 7:30. That would mess with teenager’s internal clocks and their performance. School schedules should not be changed and continue to start early in the morning for many reasons. First of all, starting school early leaves more time for afternoon events. High schoolers have more time for jobs. Kids who walk home have more daylight for safety. Sports will have more daylight to practice. However, people…
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Why High School Needs To Start Later How many of you feel like you are not getting enough sleep during school days? Personally, ever since my high school experience begun, I have fallen asleep in class countless times, and it has only been getting worse. The reason is obvious: the start time of high school is just simply too early, and students are not receiving the sleep their bodies require - that needs to be changed. High school must start at a later time in order to fulfill student’s need for…
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shown that teenagers experience a change in their internal sleep clocks so that waking up early and going to sleep early are difficult should high school classes begin later in the day accommodate students natural sleep clocks? consider some disadvantages to starting school later in the day. I believe students should have classes later in the day because some kids don't get enough sleep at night. And some be staying up late at night with that being said, that would give them enough time to do classwork…
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says Jonathan Adkins. Just by waking up early for school can have a major or even deadly effect on your life. Changing school start times will have a majorly substantial effect on students.Start times need to be delayed to benefit the students. Along with the drowsy crashes a number of other consequences come with schools early start times. Over 50% of children under the age of eighteen complain about being tired during the school day. Because of having to wake up so early kids don't get enough…
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Breakfast is the Most Important Meal Waking up every day starts out with a slight feeling of refreshment before the unbearable wave of fatigue sweeps in to take ahold of our bodies which have remained weary from the week’s never-ending line-up of activities (1). Fighting back the tears of exhaustion, we struggle to get ready for school while still held under the powerful spell of sleep. Not only is our drowsiness present, but it has also been encouraged by the exemption of the sole meal meant…
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Many students go to bed late doing their homework, wake up earlier than their parents, go through a whole school day as well as their sports practices, go home, and repeat their whole schedule every day. Students who have such busy plans need an adequate amount of sleep each night to give them energy throughout the day. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that students who are thirteen to eighteen years old should get eight to ten hours of sleep regularly (Hicks). Unfortunately, according…
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For the Students Students in middle school and high schools enter their school day extremely tired and deprived from sleep. Many adolescence dislike getting up at 6:00am just to get ready for school that starts at 7:10am. This is because of their school schedule and their sleep cycle do not have a common ground with each other. During middle school, the students are entering the beginning these changes is the sleep cycle that they experience. Instead of sleeping early and getting like their younger…
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A later start to the school day always seems like a brilliant idea. Students will get an extra hour of sleep and won’t have to worry about waking up at 6 or 7 in the morning. However, what if this trend was constant? What if every day was a late start? This trend would have many positive effects, however; negative effects would follow. This trend would create a domino effect. So should high schools start an hour later? No, because it would have disastrous effects! High schools should not start an…
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blankets. Her laughter and voice is so sweet. I’m so lost but I pick her up and soothe her. She starts to get excited as she hears my boyfriend’s voice. I turn and see no one. It’s so blurry and I look in my hands and the baby is gone! I start to look but can’t see. I call for the baby and my boyfriend, nothing. That’s when I wake up, feeling so uncomfortable and overwhelm by my dream. I’ve always had this dream since high school, but at the time I didn’t have a boyfriend, in my dream I would “smell”…
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