Why Teenagers Aren’t Sleeping Enough
Imagine this; you look inside a classroom. You will most likely find a teacher at the front of the class and students sitting at their desk. Yet, look closer, and you might notice a familiar trend: many of these students are not paying attention. Instead, they are dozing off or even completely asleep. At least once a week, more than one- quarter (28 percent) of high school students fall asleep in school, 22 percent fall asleep doing homework, and 14 percent arrive late or miss school because they overslept ("Survey"). Sleep deprivation in teenagers is an epidemic here in the U.S with up to 90 percent of teenagers not getting enough sleep on school nights (Canapari). Why is it so difficult for teens to get …show more content…
Forty percent went to bed after 11 p.m.; 26 percent said they usually got less than 6.5 hours on school night (Glosser). Out of the thirty teenagers I surveyed, fifteen said School/Homework keeps them up at night. I mentioned five possible reasons that I assumed may be the cause. One of the possible reason I mention health issues. Some of the health issues may include; a cold, having insomnia, or having breathing problems at night. The second possible reason I mention was having a job. Sometimes teenagers have jobs where they are required to work late. School/Homework and Pregnancy was easy for them to understand, so I didn’t spend time explaining it to them. The last possible reason I mentioned to them was technology. An example for using technology would be the computer. At times teenagers stay up using the computer for homework, Netflix, social media, or just browsing through the internet. I also mentioned another technology that majority of the teenagers use. I asked them about if they had a cellphone. If they did have one, I asked whether they used the cellphone to stay up texting or to call someone. I also asked approximately how much sleep they got when they are faced with these issues. At the end of the survey, I gathered my results and came to a …show more content…
A poll of public school teachers found that on average, high school students are assigned approximately three hours of homework per weeknight, or more than seventeen hours a week (Klein). Or that’s the teachers’ perspective, anyway. The National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) and the National Education Association endorse the ten minute rule, which states that the maximum amount of homework (all subjects combined) should not exceed ten minutes per grade level per night. That is, a 1st-grader should have no more than ten minutes of homework, a sixth-grader no more than sixty minutes, and a senior in high school no more than two hours
Imagine this; you look inside a classroom. You will most likely find a teacher at the front of the class and students sitting at their desk. Yet, look closer, and you might notice a familiar trend: many of these students are not paying attention. Instead, they are dozing off or even completely asleep. At least once a week, more than one- quarter (28 percent) of high school students fall asleep in school, 22 percent fall asleep doing homework, and 14 percent arrive late or miss school because they overslept ("Survey"). Sleep deprivation in teenagers is an epidemic here in the U.S with up to 90 percent of teenagers not getting enough sleep on school nights (Canapari). Why is it so difficult for teens to get …show more content…
Forty percent went to bed after 11 p.m.; 26 percent said they usually got less than 6.5 hours on school night (Glosser). Out of the thirty teenagers I surveyed, fifteen said School/Homework keeps them up at night. I mentioned five possible reasons that I assumed may be the cause. One of the possible reason I mention health issues. Some of the health issues may include; a cold, having insomnia, or having breathing problems at night. The second possible reason I mention was having a job. Sometimes teenagers have jobs where they are required to work late. School/Homework and Pregnancy was easy for them to understand, so I didn’t spend time explaining it to them. The last possible reason I mentioned to them was technology. An example for using technology would be the computer. At times teenagers stay up using the computer for homework, Netflix, social media, or just browsing through the internet. I also mentioned another technology that majority of the teenagers use. I asked them about if they had a cellphone. If they did have one, I asked whether they used the cellphone to stay up texting or to call someone. I also asked approximately how much sleep they got when they are faced with these issues. At the end of the survey, I gathered my results and came to a …show more content…
A poll of public school teachers found that on average, high school students are assigned approximately three hours of homework per weeknight, or more than seventeen hours a week (Klein). Or that’s the teachers’ perspective, anyway. The National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) and the National Education Association endorse the ten minute rule, which states that the maximum amount of homework (all subjects combined) should not exceed ten minutes per grade level per night. That is, a 1st-grader should have no more than ten minutes of homework, a sixth-grader no more than sixty minutes, and a senior in high school no more than two hours