Sleep More

Sleep More

Are you tired? I bet that is a yes if you are a teenager in high school. Almost every student at Kennedy High School would answer this question saying yes. Found on the website (National Sleep Foundation) one study found that only 15% of teens are getting 8 ½ hours of sleep on school nights. Teens should be getting 9 to 8 ½ hours each night. Not getting enough sleep will lead to less focus in school which will then lead to poor grades. This is why every student should go to sleep at a decent time.

From being a teen and a student in high school, I would say it is difficult to sleep 8 ½ to 9 hours each night. Being in sports and having homework each night makes it challenging to be in bed at a decent hour. Sometimes after a practice I just want to go to sleep and forget the homework but I know that is probably not a good idea.

For students who are not in sports and that don’t have a busy life, have no excuse. They should be able to finish their homework and get into bed at a decent hour.

Teens lacking sleep has been a problem not just recently but for a long time. I have one reason why this could be; all of the different social networks. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat have become very popular within this past year. Facebook has always been a popular network but the other three have really increased in usage.

All of these different types of social networks make teens loose their focus everywhere else, such as school. They pay more attention to their phones on these social networks causing them to stay up later to finish homework. This leads to less sleep for teens over the night.

If students don’t mind not receiving enough sleep then I guess it doesn’t matter, but when people complain there is a problem. Hopefully someday everyone will be able to get enough sleep, which will lead to more successful lives.  

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Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break

Thank goodness there was a break from school. I believe every hard working student deserves a break from school. This past week we had a week off from the place we all don’t want to be; school. When you have been in school for three months, it is nice to have a time to relax without any homework to accomplish.

When students don’t receive a break, I feel like they become lazy towards their school work. More students would have started to slack off if we didn’t have a thanksgiving break. These breaks provide a lot of relaxing and time with your family.

                There are schools that don’t give their students a thanksgiving break like the one we receive. They just get the day before thanksgiving off instead of the whole week like we do. I mean at least they are getting a couple days off. But if they were only to have Thanksgiving Day off then you would see a raise of lazy work ethics in students.

                The only thing that I hate about breaks is that out of the three breaks that we receive a year, two of them are within the same month. After we get back from thanksgiving break, there are only twenty school days till Christmas break. This is a good and a bad thing. It is good because we don’t have to be at school for that long within the two months of November and December. It is bad because the breaks aren’t spread out. After Christmas, we have two more months until the next week break.

                If administrators and teachers want their students to be productive in school, then they need to provide them with a week break. They will see more out of students by giving them time to relax. That is why I believe our administrators expect more out of us. We work hard, so they provide us with breaks. I know that isn’t exactly why we have them but we should still be rewarded for doing hard work.

                If more and more schools provide breaks then they will see a raise in their work ethics. Maybe they should try it to see if anything happens in their students’ ability to learn and work hard.

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