Thursday, February 01, 2007
Need More Sleep?
Channel One reported a story this morning about starting school one hour later in order for teens to get more sleep. The report cited experts who claim that one more hour of sleep may make a difference in student performance. What do you think? Would you be in favor of starting school one hour later? Or having the option of coming in at 7:00 and others coming in at 8:00? Do you think a different time schedule could improve student performance? Share your thoughts!
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I think that it is a good idea to start school later then it does now. If students have more sleep they will do better in class. There are many students that have trouble staying a wake during school.
I don't think it would improve at all. Kids would just go to bed an hour later, and we'd get out of school an hour later and have no time to go outside and play. I actually think it should start 1 hour early. It wouldn't really cause a difference in performance, and we'd get out an hour earlier, that way we could play outside longer, and have more fun.
I think it would be so cool if school started at 10 and ended at 5, when you're tired you can't think of anything but sleeping and don't focus on schoolwork. If we had a little more sleep, we would make better grades.
I would like to come to school one hour later. I think I would be more alert and would learn more.
Personally I like getting out of school early because it gives me more time in the afternoon to do whatever I want to after Dance practice. It might improve performance a little bit, but I think going to school an hour later will give us less time in the afternoon to play and less daylight.
I've heard this before. It does seem a little appealing but i dont see a diffrence cause im still tired when i get up at 11 on weekends :) But I guess it would probabley help some. I think it would not help performance either.
i think that we should get one more hour of sleep,and start the day later,when students et t oschool they are tired,and cant think as well,getting and extra hour of sleep would make grades in the earlier classes go up.
I think that they should start school an hour later because I think it would improve student's performance in the earlier classes of the day. When I am in the earliest classes of the day I am usually tired and not really awake. I don't think they should let students come in at different times because students could get more work done than others.
I think that an hour of extra sleep would be great. This would give many kids that extra energy that many average school kids lose halfway through the day. I also think that there should be an option of coming in erlier or later. Some kids might want to sleep in one day or not on another day. I think in the future our school should have this option.
I do think that we should get to start school one hour later. In the morning I am always really tired and I have some morning classes. I am never awake when it is time for those classes and I feel I could do better if I got more sleep. Lots of people also have a lot of homework and extra curicularr activities which can cause them to stay up late and not get enough sleep. I think starting school would be better foor a lot of people.
I do not think that we should start schools one hour later because that would have to stay until four and that would affect many other out of school activities. I think that i might improve student preformance but then again they might just stay up another hour and then it wouldn't help at all. I am not in favor of staring school one hour later and I have told you why above.
I think it will make a difference because they get one more hour of sleep which will help them rest better and be more awake when they come to school. Yes, I think a different time schedule will improce student performance because if they get more rest and aren't tired when they go to school then they could make better grades on tests and focus more in class when the teacher is talking.
I think if all students could come to school an hour later it would make a difference in their work performance. Everyone would pay more attention because they are actually awake. There are some people that like to wake up earlier in the morning and go to school, but it won't kill them to get another hour of sleep.
I am not really sure if it would be better to start school later or not. If we started school at 9:00, then that would mean we would get out of school at 4:00. If you had an after- school practice, it would most likely end at 6:00, and I would get tired after awhile. I am not in favor of starting school one hour later. I think our problem is that we go to bed at 11:00 to around 1:00 in the morning. (Some people, not all of us.)I think it would be a good idea for us to have a particular day that we can come in school one hour later, and end school at our regular time, or one hour later.
I think that the time school starts should stay the same. Students should go to bed earlier.
I do not think that starting schol later would affect student preformance. I think that students are trying hard enough already. I belive that starting school an hour later would be bad because school would get out even later.
YES!!!!! I think that our schedule should Start 2 hours later. but should end at the same as it is right now. We might lose 2 hours of learning time, but who's complaining?
I think we should have one more hour of sleep, but we still get out at 3 o' clock. We should cut something like an elective. Because if we do get an extra hour most of our scheduals will not bend around getting out at 4. That only leaves you with about 5 to 6 hours of time at home to do homework, a sport, or an after school activity which still is a pretty good amount of time.
I think school should start one hour later. Everyone needs more sleep. Teens are growing and also need sleep. I do think it would improve grades and how students act in class. Students sleep in class all the time. It may be because they went to bed to late, but also they could just be tired from getting up to early. Buses also come to early. Some buses have to stop by the high school first then go to the middle school, so students have to get up alot earlier.
I think that i would really give students more energy in the mornig adn it would prabably make some students have better grades I do a gree about letting students coming to school an hour later.I now that I would help me casue im so tired at school!
I think that we shouldn't go to school an hour later because I already stay up to late doing homework and the afterschool actives that I end at about at 7:00 P.M. I like the schedule that we have here just fine. I think starting school later will help some people, but not everyone.
I think they shouldn't change the time. We have more time to do stuff after school if we let out at 3:00. At 4:00 people have to eat dinner and do homework. Our performance would be better if some of us wen to sleep earlier. There is a lot of kids at our school that stay up till 12:00 at nigt. I know I am guilty of that every once in a while.
I think that idea is a great thing to do. I in fact need more sleep and theres alot of people like that. Some can't stay awake during class but they try so hard to.
I think we should start school one hour late but not leave at four. I think if we had one more hours of sleep wae would make better grades and not fall asleep in class.But I think we should end school at the same time. If we ended at four it would be harder to finish your homework and study for your test. Also if you had after school activities you would get home late.
No I do not think that coming in later would improve our thinking and would not make any differrence in how we do things cause its just one our any ways so we dont get that much sleep if they did move the time.
I think that starting school an hour late would be good for students because I know that I would like an extra hour of sleep. I also think it would improve student work because lots of people get tired durring the day so they make more mistakes. I think the option of comming to school at either 7:00 or 8:00 woul;d be good for two reasons; one is because kids could come early to study or do homework, and two because some students could get more rest before school.
I think that we should start an hour earlier because I would rather get out of school later because I would have more time to get my homework done, and then do what I wanted with my extra time. If the School Board started an hour later, it really wouldnt help because I know that I personally wouldnt change my sleep habits just because of what the School Board did with my school hours.
I think that school should start a little bit later. We could wake up and have more time to get ready not having to rush.I think it could and couldn't just depends.
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