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Teenage Brain Satires

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Hailey Cimenski
Mrs. Meek
Health 9 - Hour 4
2 January 2018
Sleep and the Teenage brain
Have you ever been a teenager? Well I’m one right now and let me you, It sucks! All of the things our minds juggle. Friends, homework, school, reading, and our worst enemy, sleep. There is never any time for sleep. In the daytime we are the living walking dead. By the night time we are texting friends, finishing school projects and homework, getting our reading in, and struggling to sleep. Coffee is our Best Friend! School. Everyone hates school. If you don’t hate school you need your head checked out. It’s early. It’s long. It’s boring. Coffee isn’t allowed. It’s torcher! We are slaving over homework at night and it’s cutting into our sleep.Research shows that kids that have problems with misbehaving are more tired during the day. School should start later in the day, for the health of the students. …show more content…

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