...It was an early school morning and Sally still has not gotten up. Her bus would leave in approximately an hour. Sally has always had a difficult time waking up in the morning; she would always stay up past her bedtime because she had a difficult time falling asleep at night. This particular time, she stayed up and was worked on her group English project; she only had two hours and thirty minutes of sleep and was expected to wake up at five am. During peoples' teenage years, they experience a change in their internal sleep clock. Teenagers should have their high school classes begin later in the day and end later in the day. High school starting later benefits the students in many ways. First, they will be wide awake in class and ready to learn....
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...more hours before having to leave for High School. Sounds like a hallelujah in the darkness! But what if it wasn’t? What if there were too many problems after school gets out? Chesterfield County is considering a time change for High Schools, and I must say that this is a terrible idea. Teens would just stay up later, they cannot take care of their younger siblings, and Specialty Center students or Marching Band students would not get home until five or seven PM. Teens would just have an excuse to stay up even later than they do now. The county may think teens would willingly sleep at the same time they do now, but the majority would just stay up hours later, whether or not they had a choice. Many...
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...that teenagers in high school classes should begin school later in the day, because of having to wake up early and going to sleep early. Also about how the research shows that classes should begin later in the day, and end later in the day. I am in between about the research because there are good things and bad about starting school later in the day and getting out later on in the day. Why I think that it is a good idea to start classes later in the day, because high school students will get more sleep and be prepared for class. Also students would have more time to eat breakfast in the morning. Another reason why I agree because the students will be able to go to sleep easier, and will not...
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...Walking the halls of most American high schools during the morning hours, one might think they are in a zombie apocalypse. Students have bloodshot tired eyes, drinking red bulls and falling asleep in class. Not doing well, especially in first block classes. Over the past two decades The Sleep Foundation has been trying to suggest that high school should switch start times to later (later start times). Teenagers are told they should get around 8 hours of sleep at the minimum but nine to ten hours is ideal (Carroll). Teenagers are going through puberty and require more sleep than the average adult (Troxel). Only one out of ten students are getting the right amount of sleep each night (wake up calls). A typical teen who is sleep deprived are less likely to do well on a quiz or test than a student who is not...
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...A survey of U. S districts shows fewer than one and five high schools begin before 8am. High school students go through a mass amount of bullshit on a day to day basisIf there are any changes that should be made about school it would be the school hours, standardized test and classes. Sleep the time our bodies recover; but what if you don't get enough? Your grades, health, and performance suffers. Teens need about 8 hours of sleep each night, but when you have homework, chores, and hours of studying how can you achieve that with adequate amount of sleep in mind. School should start later so students have enough time ti get work done and get an appropriate amount of sleep. We spend hours deciding and choosing our major and career paths but...
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...days a school year? Who likes going to bed super early? Definitely not teenagers. High school classes should begin later in the day and end later in the day, because; students will be more willing to learn, no one would sleep during instruction, and teenagers will have a much better attitude. First, students are more willing to learn the lesson. All teenagers will be eager for class to begin the learning process. Sleeping longer can make the brain function better and more clearly, making it easier to learn. Students will be on time to school, and won't be tardy because of sleeping in the next day. Many students skip school to sleep in more, and that causes them to miss...
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...students gain the most from delayed start times. Making middle and high schoolers start classes before 8:30am threatens children’s health, safety, and academic performance. The start time for middle school students should be later than it is now because it has positive effects on middle school students lives. For one thing, middle and high schoolers need to get more sleep according to npr.org. Making middle and high schoolers start classes before 8:30am threatens their life. With a later start time students can get more sleep, and be more active, and focus better in class. When students get more sleep, their health is better than someone who gets less sleep. If middle and high schoolers get more sleep they would have fewer mood changes, they would also have improved physical health. According...
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...teenagers not getting enough sleep has caused some schools to consider starting later. Teenagers are tired in school and could perform better if they were more awake in their early classes. Although teens don’t get enough sleep, schools should not start later because teens can go to bed earlier, transportation time and costs are reduced by some schools starting earlier, and they need time for after school activities or their grades will be affected. The argument for starting schools later is that teenagers are biologically determined to go to bed late and wake up late and thus don’t get enough sleep. Sixty percent of students under 18 complained about being tired and fifteen percent of students reported falling asleep in...
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...Period 8 English Honors Persuasive Essay Students attend school everyday of the week and stay there for many hours. School should start later on in the morning. It should start later because kids would be more awake and willing to learn, students in Paramus Catholic have to travel far distances every morning, and it allows kids to get a couple more hours of sleep. If school started later, mornings for students and parents would be less stressful because there wouldn’t be as much of a rush. Paramus Catholic starts at 7:45 A.M. That is very early in the morning. Most students are not fully woken up yet when they start learning. How are kids supposed to be asked to complete an algebra or history test that early in the morning when their brains aren’t fully functioning? Students would be more willing to learn because they won’t be in a grumpy mood. They’ll be awake and the teachers can get more accomplished. Paramus Catholic Regional High School consists of students from 120 different towns. Students who live a half hour or even an hour away have to wake up extremely early just to get to school on time. Some student’s have to take the public bus. The students at Paramus Catholic get dismissed very early. Instead of making the students arrive to school so early in the morning, the faculty can make school start later and the students will get dismissed later on in the after noon. Another good reason why getting dismissed later on in the afternoon is because a lot...
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...“I know why the caged bird cannot read” is an essay by Francine Prose that examines the way America’s school system teaches literature to high school students. Her purpose is simple, to teach our children better literature in a more meaningful way. Prose believes that the disgustingly repetitory and plain way novels are being taught to American high school students doesn’t prepare them for college nor challenge their minds to see beyond the obvious. They’re given books and asked the same questions over and over. Instead of learning new styles of writing, high school students are learning how to perfect one specific style, in turn making writing more procedural than creative. In no way does our current school system challenge student’s minds....
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...Innovated Learning Essay A typical Students response to a hated subject in school is “What will I need to know this for in my future?” Creativity is just as important in education as literacy. Opening up your mind to embrace your gifts should be stressed a lot more in the high school curriculum. In today’s society, as you get older, your original sense of your childhood creativity begins to disintegrate. We become unwilling to use our capabilities out of the fear of being wrong. As you get older the basic school subjects of math, science, literature, and history are defined and expanded on in learning then using one’s personal creativity. Most education leaders push students to use their methods in order to become successful in the student’s education. Unfortunately most students miss out on what their creative aspects in which can make them successful down the line. Speaker, Ken Robinson, demonstrates a great speech that indicates that society needs to be stressing creativity just as much as your typical education. “Children are all artist”, says Ken Robinson. We as humans are naturally born with a sense of imagination. When children are first learning how the world works, they will creatively think of reason why it works the way it does. For example when you are first teaching a child about subjects like religion and the weather we may come up with or they come up with things like thunder is God going bowling. These reasons make for a less scary idea, and also provide...
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... A literacy narrative by Russell Baker “On Becoming a Writer. In this narrative the author explains how he always wanted to be a writer from an early age. During earlier school years he did not enjoy English classes and thought they were boring. Because he was not interested in the classes he always waited until the last minute to complete his assignments. In his third year English class he had a teacher that all the students knew for being a boring teacher he was an older gentleman that didn’t relate with the kids and make the class interesting for the students. In the beginning of the year Mr. Baker felt all the stories he had heard about the teacher were true the class was very boring. Late in the year the students were given an assignment to write an essay and as usual he waited until the last minute to start writing his essay. When he picked his topic to write about and started writing he got very interested and wanted to start writing more for himself. Due to the requirements of the assignment Mr. Baker did not feel his paper would get a good grade because of all the added writing so he figured he would write another essay for the class. It took him so long to finish writing the original essay he didn’t have time to write another paper for the class so he turned in his original essay. A few days later after the teacher handed out the graded papers he started to read Mr. Baker’s paper aloud in the class. This made him feel so good about the writing he had done because the...
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...a brilliant young African-American high school student and basketball player, and William Forrester; an author who became reclusive after the death of his alcoholic brother and also his parents. Forrester is an award winning author who wrote only one book four decades ago before the incident that made him start living a reclusive life. On the other hand, Wallace is a high school student whom after getting high scores on his test and also his brilliance on the court gets noticed by an elite Manhattan prep school; Mailor-Callow who offers him a scholarship to study at their school and also play basketball. Wallace has a bad first encounter with Forrester after a challenge by his friends go wrong and he leaves Forrester’s apartment in a hurry out of fear and ends up forgetting his backpack in the apartment. His backpack is later returned to him and he sees that Forrester had put comments and reviewed his write-ups. Wallace decides to go to Forrester’s apartment to apologize and also to ask Forrester to review his works. Initially, Forrester is reluctant to help out the young writer but changes his mind after he tells Wallace to write an essay of five thousand words on “Why he should stay out of his house” and the latter actually writes it. The two quickly develop a bond which is easy because they both share a love for writing and Wallace associates the role of mentor, role model and friend to Forrester. Back in school, Wallace befriends a Caucasian girl...
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...“ All days are not the same. Save for a rainy day. When you don’t work savings will work for you.” -M.K Soni. How does this pertain to seniors in high school and their financial futures? Can saving up now truly benefit you later on? Does saving up a great deal of your money save you later on down the road? What is saving, budgeting, and planning on your financial stability for your future? These are all questions I asked myself that I knew I would use in this essay. Through a set of thorough research, dedication, and thought I came up with one answer that is easy. Saving now will benefit all people, especially seniors in high school. It will help them have no worries on a variety of things, and you won’t have a hassle or worry financially. In this essay I will be giving examples, facts, and prove to you how I am right. Why start saving now, isn’t that what a job is for; providing money for my everyday life? Saving is a systematic plan for the expenditure of a usually fixed resource, such as money or time, during a given period. Imagine if you lost your job, and couldn’t pay your car payment, and/or had no money to buy your everyday needs. You start using a credit card, and end up spending so much that you cannot pay it back on time. What happens to that bill? It builds up interest, and creates an even bigger problem to begin with. Interest is a charge for a loan, usually a percentage of the amount loaned; an excess or bonus beyond what is expected or due. No one wants to...
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...early hours (Roenneberg, 1038). The questions, then, arise: Should adolescents really get up early in the morning? Will getting up early ensure their body health and study efficiency? Although an overwhelming majority of people firmly believe that going to bed early and getting up early is of great benefit, research carried out by Dr. Paul Kelley from Oxford University indicated that getting up later is a healthier and simpler...
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