Sleeping Time Research Paper

Imagine coming back to school, after three months of vacation, to find that you have a four page essay due in three days. On top of this paper, you have a quiz in two days in another class, and another essay for another class. This is the reality for today's high school students. These students are taking high school classes that are difficult, dish out a lot of homework, on top of taking part in a myriad of extracurriculars to make themselves appear well rounded. These things add up, and make high schoolers lose valuable sleep time because of their busy schedules. Although people may say that teens over exaggerate about their workload, or just have bad time-management skills and do not know when to get their work done. Studies have been executed and show how the teens of today are getting significantly less sleep, and are being worked harder than the highschoolers of the past. Many high school students are over-exerting themselves in order to get ahead in the race of being more successful than their peers.
High School students take part in multiple high-demanding classes to get ahead of their peers. By fitting all these AP, and college classes into their schedule students feel they will look more appealing to colleges, because it shows that that student can take on heavy workloads and get good grades in …show more content…
High school students join extracurricular activities, such as band, football, soccer, and student council to show that they are well rounded. In reality, these extra activities take even more time out of the teens busy schedule. Although extracurricular activities are good, and do make high schoolers more well rounded, these extra activities can drain the fun out of highschool. The reason extracurriculars drain the fun out of highschool is because they take valuable time out of a teens life. As stated before, this time could be used to socialize, or