Posted on 08/26/2014 7:01:54 PM PDT by SMGFan
American teenagers don't get enough sleep, often because their "biological sleep rhythms" clash with the wake-up times required by their schools' early starts -- and that's a problem says the American Academy of Pediatrics. The physicians group this week recommended that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.
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Yes!
How about they just get their butts to bed earlier?!?!
NO. BAD precedent.
Why not just send the teachers to their homes and let the kids stay in bed all day. These so called “pediatricians” have been spewing this garbage for years. Morons.
Back in the colonial days ... heck, back in the neolithic age, kids used to sleep in until their alarm clocks woke them at 9:00 AM or so. Then they would walk to school, uphill, through the snow.
Whatever happened to ‘early to bed, early to rise’?
There’s a joking second part to it that says “makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
Not that I have any kind of good circadian rhythm...
I guess the teachers’ unions want even shorter workdays...
my grandfather used to walk to and FROM school Uphill....
Got on the bus @ 7:00
I did just fine.
They won’t have to get up at the crack of dawn for their lunch shifts at McDonald’s when they graduate...
It is more coddling of the most coddled generation.
I thought biological sleep rhythms were a result of sun rise, sun set not the age of the person. If you go to bed early, getting up early and staying awake should not be a problem.
I was raised on a dairy farm, we were in bed by 8 and up at 4:30 or so and I never had a problem with falling asleep during school.
Most teens today stay up all hours of the night watching TV, texting and surfing the web, no wonder they fall asleep during school. If they change the hours of school to start later the kids will just stay up later.
I used ride my bicycle to school against the south wind. Then when school was over the wind had changed direction and I had to ride home against the north wind. AND that is a true story!
That I believe, I still ride a bike btw
I don’t know,,, I kinda agree,,, When I lived in the dorm in high school. it really wasn’t much of a problem, although I was pretty lethargic in that first class of the day. In college, I had trouble with 8 o’clock classes.
IMO one of the purposes of being a teen is to prepare oneself for the adult world. Up early, have breakfast, get yourself out the door and to school at the same time working adults arrive at the job site. Student’s job is to go to school. Parents need to stand firm on no TV or video games during the school week, check to make sure homework is completed and have an early bedtime for all their kiddos. Tough duty but part of the responsibility of raising children.
Unfortunately too many parents pay little attention to their teens and left to their own resources, kids will stay in bed until half the day is over.
Then again,,,, I have a serious sleep disorder, which complicates many things!
I was the first stop for the bus in the morning at 6:37... being first off the bus in the afternoon was nice... too bad I had football and after school stuff..m the “late bus” had a different route... and my stop getting off was the last stop...
I have students arriving late to classes that start at 12 noon, saying, “I just got up, that’s why I’m late.” This is because they stay up half through the night playing video games, getting high, getting drunk, and wasting time in other ways.
With more than half of the country on welfare, maybe it makes sense for kids to start learning the (lazy) lifestyle early.
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