Many students have a hard time getting up in the morning, due to the extreme times that school starts at. High school start times do not align with the students’ normal sleep clock, causing students to be severely sleep deprived. Most schools start much before 8:15 am causing students to be substantially sleep deprived (Tonn para. 10). High school start times do not align with students’ normal sleep clock, causing students to be severely sleep deprived.
Many school aged children are forced to go to school earlier than their bodies allow. “In a 2006 report in the journal of Pediatrics, Columbia University School of Nursing researchers found that about fifteen million American school children are affected by inadequate sleep. He or she may fall asleep in school, have difficulty
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In addition to being tired because of the lack of sleep, children are forced to stay up late to complete homework, after extracurricular school activities and sport practices. According to Paul Kelly of Oxford University's Sleep and Cardiac Neuroscience Institution that the “14-24 age group is more sleep-deprived than any other sector of society” (“Work” para. 3). Children stay up later and are more sleep deprived because of the timing of sleep in their bodies, they have a later “internal body clock” that causes them to stay up later than a child and wake up later than normal school days allow them to. “As adolescents hit puberty, their natural sleep-wake cycles begin to shift, and they are unable to fall asleep as early as they did when they were in elementary school” (“Experts” para. 8). Students should be able to sleep in each morning because they are unable to fall asleep early enough to sustain proper amounts of sleep to get through the day. Most kids go to sleep at roughly 10 or 11 o’clock, then get up at about 5:30 or 6, allowing them seven or eight hours of sleep while they need “8.5 to 9.5