Personal Reflection/Hypothesis
The social issue I picked for my dissertation is early school times affect on students grades. My personal reflection on this topic is that I think school should start later because from personal experiences almost everyday I wake up for school and i’m still tired, and I know every grown up says “maybe you shouldn’t stay up so late and go to sleep earlier” but that’s the thing we can’t because we have homework, work and sports etc. I understand that if we started school later we would have to be in school later also but I think that wouldn’t be as bad as waking up before our bodies are even ready to wake up.
My hypothesis is that majority of the students that take the survey would like later school start times and will feel that the amount of sleep you get at night affects your focus in school. I also think that the main reasons students don’t get enough sleep will be because of studying, sports, and social media from main reason to least. I believe that on a likert scale of one to five majority of students will pick a three on how likely grades would improve if school started later. Through the research I believe that I will find that waking up as early as …show more content…
She said “Sleep deprivation among American teenagers is an epidemic. Only about one in 10 gets the eight to 10 hours of sleep per night recommended by sleep scientists and pediatricians.” That’s crazy because how do school expect us to perform at our best when we don’t even get the right amount of sleep at night. In an article from The Washington Post Valerie Strauss said that “Recommending that middle and high schools start class no earlier than 8:30 a.m. because adolescents have unique sleep rhythms [...] sleep deprivation can affect academic achievement as well as cause other problems”(Strauss 1). That is what I have been proving with this survey and essay, it just proves my statement
The social issue I picked for my dissertation is early school times affect on students grades. My personal reflection on this topic is that I think school should start later because from personal experiences almost everyday I wake up for school and i’m still tired, and I know every grown up says “maybe you shouldn’t stay up so late and go to sleep earlier” but that’s the thing we can’t because we have homework, work and sports etc. I understand that if we started school later we would have to be in school later also but I think that wouldn’t be as bad as waking up before our bodies are even ready to wake up.
My hypothesis is that majority of the students that take the survey would like later school start times and will feel that the amount of sleep you get at night affects your focus in school. I also think that the main reasons students don’t get enough sleep will be because of studying, sports, and social media from main reason to least. I believe that on a likert scale of one to five majority of students will pick a three on how likely grades would improve if school started later. Through the research I believe that I will find that waking up as early as …show more content…
She said “Sleep deprivation among American teenagers is an epidemic. Only about one in 10 gets the eight to 10 hours of sleep per night recommended by sleep scientists and pediatricians.” That’s crazy because how do school expect us to perform at our best when we don’t even get the right amount of sleep at night. In an article from The Washington Post Valerie Strauss said that “Recommending that middle and high schools start class no earlier than 8:30 a.m. because adolescents have unique sleep rhythms [...] sleep deprivation can affect academic achievement as well as cause other problems”(Strauss 1). That is what I have been proving with this survey and essay, it just proves my statement