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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we once were a nation of farmers....those families awoke well before dawn....of course, they didn’t stay up and pose for “selfies” play video games all night..
Mine did too! up hill both ways. He says the daily blizzards where awful on his bare feet!
exactly
Whats wrong with gong to bed earlier ???
Maybe I am beating my head against the wall here but wouldn't it make sense to make the schedule suit those in the middle of the bell curve rather than those at either end?
Let’s see... let’s start school at 4 pm...and let them stay until 4:01 pm...Sorry, our boys are in bed by 9:30 pm and at the kitchen table at 7:30 for school.
One of my baseball players used his time to get a haircut.
Sleep apnea?
Exactly! Our 24 hour days are just relative terms we invented. If we renamed 6am to 10 am, would that help? This is the dumbest article ever!
All this is a way to keep on dumbing them down. Less time in the class room and the less they learn.
Hey, it's just real expensive daycare anyway.
So let them start with a couple of study halls. That way, they can come in whenever they want, and even go back to sleep if they want.
I’m not saying I think you’re wrong, but what makes you think schools are designed to make kids struggle with reading?
Amen!
John Dewey, for one. The purpose of “Look-Say,” “Whole-Word,” and all the other non-phonics approaches to reading have all been INTENDED to make people struggle with reading. The goal was that reading would be a chore, thus discouraging independent reading, independent thought, etc.
I learned about John Dewey a loooong time ago. Long ago for me, anyway, I was only born in 1985. I learned about him in grade school, probably around 1995-96.
Is it a good thing I forgot what I learned about him? The lady that used to run the library in that school worshiped him and the Dewey Decimal System.
How did we ever survive?
Kids are going off to college for the first time. They will be free to regulate their own lives. The number that will fail an “early” 0800 class because they can’t get up will be legion.
They had better get used to it because there will be “early” class for the rest of their lives.
One of our guys is 9 hours ahead of me but he asked me to call when he gets up at 0400. He is entering his FIFTH decade of this schedule.
Why is every standard now being rejected with no change for the better.
My kids went to elementary school in the 60s and 70s.
Half days every Tuesday and Thursday.
Ridiculous.
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I think most do, I certainly do.
So what?
Is school meant to get kids ready for real life or not?
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