Consistently hitting the snooze button, procrastinating time to get out of bed, and sometimes missing important parts of morning routines are all conflicts most teenagers face in the morning. Teenagers all across America struggle with sleep deprivation, and are not as advanced as foreign countries in academics. They are negatively impacted because of early school start times and the duration of the school year. These negative impacts on teenagers in America are mental health as a result of sleep, decreased functionability throughout the school day, and being ranked low on a worldwide scale of level of academics.
Maintaining a routine sleep schedule is crucial to mental health. This is especially hard for adolescents and teenagers. Deena …show more content…
They require a certain amount of sleep to be alert throughout the school day. Yellin reports, "Teenagers need at least 9 1/2 hours of sleep nightly, but few get that, [. . .] Working against a full night's sleep is the typical high school schedule, with a large load of homework, tests and after-hours activities, plus social events"(Tired Teens May Get Relief at School). 9 1/2 hours of sleep are required to function at their best, and because only few get that, schools are full of teenagers not functioning at their full potential. For example, Yellin writes about a student named Carlos Polanco, 16, "Between extracurricular activities, homework and waking up at 6 a.m. for school, he gets only six hours of sleep at most"(Tired Teens May Get Relief at School). Students are known to be extremely tired in the mornings on school days, presumably because of such early start times. They are not alert, and certainly not ready to learn new topics and ideas, let alone apply them to situations. Yellin reports that Superintendent Daniel Fishbein says, "If you walk into any high school during the first period of the day, it's a different place. Kids are just waking up"(Tired Teens Get Relief at School). Earlier start times will give students the opportunity to get more sleep, and in return will give schools more alert and ready to learn …show more content…
The president proposed longer school years for students in the United States. Steven Thomma reports that President Barack Obama says, "American children should go to school longer--either stay later in the day or into the summer--if they're going to have any chance of competing for jobs and paycheks against foreign kids"(Obama Urges Longer School Hours, Extended Year). Students in the United States on average spend an exceptional amount of time less in school than foreign countries. While the idea of a longer school year is not a popular proposal, it is an essential one for the future of the students. Thomma reports that Obama says, "Despite resources that are unmatched anywhere in the world, we have let our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short and other nations outspace us. In eighth-grade math, we've fallen to ninth place. Singapore's middle-schoolers outperform ours 3-to-1,"(Obama Urges Longer School Hours, Extended Year). Foreign countries are especially more advanced than the United States, putting students at a disadvantage in the long-run. Thomma also says that Obama remarks, "If they can do that in South Korea, we can do it right here in the United States of America,"(Obama Urges Longer School Hours, Extended Year). The president is confident that he can give the students of the United States fair game against other
Maintaining a routine sleep schedule is crucial to mental health. This is especially hard for adolescents and teenagers. Deena …show more content…
They require a certain amount of sleep to be alert throughout the school day. Yellin reports, "Teenagers need at least 9 1/2 hours of sleep nightly, but few get that, [. . .] Working against a full night's sleep is the typical high school schedule, with a large load of homework, tests and after-hours activities, plus social events"(Tired Teens May Get Relief at School). 9 1/2 hours of sleep are required to function at their best, and because only few get that, schools are full of teenagers not functioning at their full potential. For example, Yellin writes about a student named Carlos Polanco, 16, "Between extracurricular activities, homework and waking up at 6 a.m. for school, he gets only six hours of sleep at most"(Tired Teens May Get Relief at School). Students are known to be extremely tired in the mornings on school days, presumably because of such early start times. They are not alert, and certainly not ready to learn new topics and ideas, let alone apply them to situations. Yellin reports that Superintendent Daniel Fishbein says, "If you walk into any high school during the first period of the day, it's a different place. Kids are just waking up"(Tired Teens Get Relief at School). Earlier start times will give students the opportunity to get more sleep, and in return will give schools more alert and ready to learn …show more content…
The president proposed longer school years for students in the United States. Steven Thomma reports that President Barack Obama says, "American children should go to school longer--either stay later in the day or into the summer--if they're going to have any chance of competing for jobs and paycheks against foreign kids"(Obama Urges Longer School Hours, Extended Year). Students in the United States on average spend an exceptional amount of time less in school than foreign countries. While the idea of a longer school year is not a popular proposal, it is an essential one for the future of the students. Thomma reports that Obama says, "Despite resources that are unmatched anywhere in the world, we have let our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short and other nations outspace us. In eighth-grade math, we've fallen to ninth place. Singapore's middle-schoolers outperform ours 3-to-1,"(Obama Urges Longer School Hours, Extended Year). Foreign countries are especially more advanced than the United States, putting students at a disadvantage in the long-run. Thomma also says that Obama remarks, "If they can do that in South Korea, we can do it right here in the United States of America,"(Obama Urges Longer School Hours, Extended Year). The president is confident that he can give the students of the United States fair game against other