Get Out of Bed, Teens!
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On the New York Times' Motherlode blog, Lisa Belkin brings up an issue that seems to get play every late August/early September: whether or not high schools should begin later to cater to teens' natural sleep cycles. I say: Get out of bed, adolescent lollygaggers!
Pro-late-starters say that teens are involved in fewer car accidents when school starts later because they get more sleep, and also that they can absorb material better because they are less tired. These are not insignificant benefits. However, the reason a lot of these kids are so exhausted is because they're staying up far too late. I feel like a geezer saying this, but when I was a teen, I was able to wake up at 6:30 every morning, precisely because I went to sleep by 10 or 11 every night. I was really tired by the end of the day, and so didn't stay up 'til all hours dialing up AOL. I also walked 10 miles to school every day on broken glass. But seriously: If teens are going to school later and later, they won't train their bodies to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. Training their bodies is something that will be useful to them in adult life, not just in teen world. Parents out there: prove me wrong—do you wish your adolescents started school later? Or are you happy to shove 'em out the door at 7 a.m.?
Photograph of a sleeping teen by Photodisc/Getty Images.
Jessica Grose is the managing editor of Double X and the co-author of Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home. Click here to follow her on Twitter.
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By: Fabrisse | Fri, 08/28/2009 - 14:03
"High school goes first, then middle school, then elementary school. To get the elementary kids to school around 9 the high school kids have to get to school at 7. "
Elementary school children naturally wake-up earlier and have been shown to be more attentive in the early morning hours. Don't buy three times as many busses, use the busses exactly the same way, just respect what seems to be a natural, ingrained pattern.
My sister and I went through the same things in our teens. Our natural bedtime started getting later even as our school started earlier. As adults, she's a natural early riser, and I'm a natural night owl. We both deal with our work schedules as our bosses require, (She often ends up staying late, and I spend way too much time coming in early for meetings.) However, our sleep cycles as children and teens were exactly the same.
Until you have actually
By: KatieHD | Wed, 08/26/2009 - 12:43
Until you have actually attempted to walk into a classroom full of teens at 7 AM and teach them and engage them and inspire them, zip it.
Teaching is hard enough when you have a classroom full of awake and alert students. I assume that you think that by rousing teens from their beds earlier and hauling them into class before their scientifically studied sleep patterns would naturally allow them that I should then perform miracles like 100% proficiency in each of my students regardless of disability or personal issues.
Teachers have enough on their hands, don't contribute to the problem just because you had to get up early as a teenager!
Sleep schedules don't matter
By: sbzoom | Wed, 08/26/2009 - 08:57
Sleep schedules don't matter enough. It comes down to money and resources. In large school districts there aren't enough busses. Someone has to go to school first. High school goes first, then middle school, then elementary school. To get the elementary kids to school around 9 the high school kids have to get to school at 7. There is no way for a school district to afford 3 times the amount of busses they already have. And, just think of how bad traffic would be if there were 3 times the amount of busses on the road, all of them at 8:30 when you are trying to get to work.
Another afternoon/night person
By: asha | Tue, 08/25/2009 - 22:54
What's with this culture of "well I had to do it, so you have to do it too..." Why can't we recognize that just because (for example) WE had to start school early maybe it would be better for the health of future generations if they were allowed to start school later. My high school started around 8:30am, later than other local high schools, and I don't remember being exhausted in the mornings like I would have been if we'd started earlier. Ten years out of high school, my perfect sleep schedule is still my college schedule: getting up between 8 and 9am and going to bed between 12 and 1am. No amount of training my body to get up before 7:30am has changed that.
Wish it was that easy
By: micromouser | Tue, 08/25/2009 - 22:12
I have a teenage daughter, and unlike many teens, she does not have a computer in her room, nor does she stay up late watching tv. She goes to bed no later than 10 on most nights, but still is often awake at midnight. She tries to sleep, but can't. This is not an occasional thing, but a regular occurrence. I have tried getting her up extra early, but that doesn't help her get to sleep early either.
Early Morning Lessons
By: MrJM | Tue, 08/25/2009 - 22:08
Nothing is more important than coercing teens to ignore the messages from their bodies regarding their sleep needs and to instead force them into a work cycle developed when daily life was based on subsistence agriculture.
Never mind the ill effects on their capacity to learn -- they need to understand that they are cogs in the machinery.
-- MrJM
Thoughts from a high school teacher
By: Not Living on Ramen | Tue, 08/25/2009 - 21:52
I've always been a morning person. By fifth grade, I was setting my alarm for an hour earlier than I had to get up so that I could listen to Morning Edition on NPR before starting my day. (I was a weird kid.) I still find that the quiet hours just before dawn are often my most productive time of day.
However, I'd love it if my school went to a delayed start. The vast majority of the fourteen year olds in my first period are inert lumps at 7:20 a.m. I really don't care whether this is a byproduct of our technological society, a sign of the lack of moral fiber in today's youth, or an inevitable result of their developing brains' shifting biochemistry, the fact remains it is pretty darn difficult to get teenagers to focus on Newton's laws or valence electrons at that hour. I almost cried when I heard that they were considering moving our start time to 6:50 a.m.