Four Day School Week

Teenagers need on average about 9 ¼ hours of sleep every night; instead only about 15% of teenagers get about that much sleep per night. Doctors all across America are recommending that schools across the nation start school after 8 A.M due to the lack of sleep that teenagers are getting. The lack of sleep that teenagers are obtaining is becoming a very serious issue for students because it is affecting their lives in a very negative way. A later start time for Brunswick High School would be extremely beneficial to the students that go through the school. The Brunswick Board of Education should start school at 8:25 A.M., because teenagers are not getting enough sleep and the lack of sleep is severely punishing these students physically, mentally, and academically.

The start time here at Mentor is affecting the student 's grades and overall mental health, however, there are many ways that we can fix this issue. Mentor High School starts at 7:22 A.M. and at that time the sun is still rising so some students have to walk to the bus stop in the dark. With extracurricular activities, sports, and homework most students do not have time to relax and spend time with friends and family. According to the national sleep foundation it is natural that teenagers are not able to fall asleep before 11 P.M. If a student goes to bed at 11 P.M. at the earliest and then wake up at 6 A.M. then that is only 7 hours of sleep. You might think that is enough sleep, however, teenagers need 8-10 hours of sleep to be healthy and some teens go to bed later than 11 pm so they get even less sleep.

Ever since anyone can remember, school has started at around 7:30 am or earlier, and around 80% of schools in America start before 8:00 (Education Degree). Recently many studies have shown that school starting before 8:30 am is actually negatively affecting students. During your teenage years your body is making a lot of changes which causes your melatonin to change and that will cause your body to want to stay up later. When you mix late nights with early school times, students will not get the full 9 hours of sleep and many students end up deprived of the sleep they desperately need. This is causing grades to go down, depression, inactivity in daily life, and it’s even causing students to start drinking, smoking, or doing harmful drugs.

Should schools start at a later time? Do teenagers have a better work performance in later times than in early times? I'm pretty sure most teenagers hate getting up for school. Most teenagers have trouble waking up and leaving their comfortable beds just to wake up early for school. Not getting enough sleep can lead to mad tempers and poor performance in class and here is why.

Furthermore, if year-round school was established, teachers will not be under as much pressure, which could impact the number of days they take off work positively. With year-round school teachers will have to spend less time reviewing and more time teaching lessons required by the government. Teachers need to follow guides and requirements for the classes they teach. They often feel rushed in teaching all the required information in one school year because of the time spent reviewing forgotten information (Priddy). Teachers are also pressured to cover certain lessons and topic for each grade.

Do kids really need to get up before daylight just to get to school on time? The answer is no. School should start later. We need more sleep for our brains to function right,also our circadian rhythm changes as we get older making us go to sleep and wake up later, too. One reason school should start later is that less than 20% of kids get the recommended hours of sleep-9.5 to 8.5 hours- and that causes problems in the classroom and teens who do not sleep enough are moody in the classroom.

Lessons in class are rushed and left unfinished due to the tight time restraints placed upon teachers. They are given an inadequate amount of time to teach the excessive amount of material given to them to cover and, more often than not, they fall behind in their lesson plan, leaving them unable to teach all of the topics in each of their classes. Teachers struggle in reciting the entire lesson within the given time. With the extra fifteen to twenty minutes on their hands they could

Kids are like remote controlled cars because when they are recharging, their batteries gain energy so that the car can move. Although, if it isn 't fully charged, then the car will not go as far as it should be. It is the exact same thing with kids because if they do not get enough sleep then they will not have the energy to work play or what ever they have to do. According to Kid Source, 60% of student say that they where tired in class and 15% of them have fallen asleep in class. This means that 33 million kids in class are normally tired and this is only in the United States and Canada.

Healthy hours). Students are sevearly behind in sleep as they get older and that causes implications as said in the current paragrah as well as I also learned in Health class that chronic sleep loss also contributes to higher depression rates, suicidal ideation, and obesity. Schools starting earlier hurts the children's health. Another reason schools start earlier is because of the bus schedules.

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“Additionally, low-income students can expect to lose two months of grade level reading achievement, while their middle class peers will stay where they were or make modest gains. Over the years, this discrepancy grows wider, and the lengthy summer vacation becomes another way to enforce class differences” (Long Summer Break Leaves Kids Behind”). Many students from advantaged families do go to summer programs or summer camps to help them get ahead, but students from regular families don’t have the same opportunities during summer. That causes those students to stay inside and do not do anything to stimulate their brain, causing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students to grow exponentially. Traditional calendars have 70 full school days without any break.

I think that having a four day school week is a bad idea. I think that having a bad because having a job that won’t have a four day work week. I also think that having a 4 day school week is a bad idea is because the American School system is failing. There are some students that count on these lunches for food and having a four day school week causes them to not to be able to eat as much. I think that having a four day school week is a bad idea because the real life doesn’t work on a four day work week, it is still a five day work week.

Schools around the world and in America are gradually changing to a year-round schedule (having school throughout the year with several three-week breaks) instead of having the traditional fall to spring schedule. People in favor of the year-round schedule support that you can keep previous info in your mind during your breaks and you can take constant breaks to relax. However, supporters of the traditional schedule say that students need to relax their minds to prepare for their next year. From personal experience, I think that students should have a year-round schedule with quarterly or holiday breaks. Experience aside, I think that the logical decision would be the chopped-up schedule.

Teenagers all over the country are struggling with their sleep. They struggle to get out of bed every day. The weekend is their only break. Why is this, schools start too early. School start times should be later.

Schools should begin their daily start times later in the day since the current system affects students negatively, however there is an easily implemented solution that benefits the student. Students daily, everywhere, have to constantly put their bodies to the test waking up every morning earlier than they should. There’s an internal clock that our bodies use to make us go to sleep, it’s called The Circadian System. The circadian system communicates with our body, more importantly the metabolic demands of our sleep cycle (Argenti 29). The circadian system is what makes the body tired at night, and what wakes the minds up in the morning.