Most people think that the number of hours you need to sleep as you get older shrinks. You would be right but most people think that adolescents need six to seven hours of sleep since that’s what the average high schooler gets. You could not be more wrong a adolescent need nine to ten hours of sleep every day. This number can be disrupted by any number of things. For instance, homework causes many kids to stay up late finishing it for the following day. If kids are staying up until 12:00 pm. doing homework and wake up at 6:30 to get to school on time, that kid has gotten six and a half hours of sleep no where close to the sleep they need. Some people might think that this isn’t a major problem but twenty percent Americans reported that
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He said that schools start when the do for a number of reasons. One of the top reasons is tradition. We have been starting school at this time for hundreds of years. Also, depending on school schedules busses are not able to make their rounds at later hour because of rush hour and parents that drive their kids to school are going to experience the same problem. When schools start later in the day classes are cut and school years are extended and teachers would not want to do that. Not only would teachers have to stay in school longer into the summer a new curriculum would have to be made to accommodate the extra time that was added on and taken away from classes. For some teachers it is hard to add extra to the curriculum so after the usual end of the school year it could switch to just the classes whose time got cut short to make sure the entire curriculum is tought. One of the major problems that arises from stay extra time into the summer is summer programs or trips that families have planned. The school would experience a severe backlash if families could not go on their summer vacation for an extra month. The principal wants to start later in the day and go further into the summer or even have a year round school year (see figure 3) it would not be able to do much without the entire township changing with them (Palcer,
He said that schools start when the do for a number of reasons. One of the top reasons is tradition. We have been starting school at this time for hundreds of years. Also, depending on school schedules busses are not able to make their rounds at later hour because of rush hour and parents that drive their kids to school are going to experience the same problem. When schools start later in the day classes are cut and school years are extended and teachers would not want to do that. Not only would teachers have to stay in school longer into the summer a new curriculum would have to be made to accommodate the extra time that was added on and taken away from classes. For some teachers it is hard to add extra to the curriculum so after the usual end of the school year it could switch to just the classes whose time got cut short to make sure the entire curriculum is tought. One of the major problems that arises from stay extra time into the summer is summer programs or trips that families have planned. The school would experience a severe backlash if families could not go on their summer vacation for an extra month. The principal wants to start later in the day and go further into the summer or even have a year round school year (see figure 3) it would not be able to do much without the entire township changing with them (Palcer,