Should high school and middle school start later than elementary school?

Introduction

Adults treat sleep as a luxury besides considering it as necessity. After negotiations among extracurricular activities, part-time sports, tasks related to household get a lot of K-12 students in the same way of life. With all these responsibilities in the management, many young people merely do not enough time to be spent on sleeping. One of the ways that various schools react to such problems of lack of sleep students, from the end of this article sleep research review and talk about the causes for the parents, researchers, students and teachers opt to oppose or support the start time of schools.

Delayed sleep syndrome is one of the most common and results in a teen not being able to fall asleep at a decent time and having difficulty walking in the morning. This is due to inconsistent sleep schedules where a teen may stay up later on the weekend, sleep in, and then have trouble getting back to a regular sleep schedule during the week. Daily stress contributes to the late hours and may cause this condition to occur. Stress also brings on insomnia which is simply the inability to fall and stay asleep. Restless leg syndrome is usually an inherited condition that brings on an uncontrollable urge to move legs right before or during sleep. The sensation can be very uncomfortable and is easily resolved by medication. A teen with apnea has trouble breathing at night due to a blocked air passage. Specific treatments along with weight loss are used to reduce the symptoms and allow breathing at night.Sleep needs and Academic performance

Some researchers believe that the later start time may also lead to better performance. Students should begin school at 7:15 or 7:30 in the morning are at the greater risk of developing memory disorder, problems highlighted, and delayed response times reveal depressions signs among than students who study in schools, from a later time. Additionally for the improvement of sleeping habits of adolescents, proponents argue later start time, the new start time and guide to other positive results. From the 1997 to the 98 school years the first central school district to change its start time was Minneapolis Public Schools, which is to cater the sleep requirements of adolescents. Consequently, the average district school now starts at late in the morning that is 8.45 am rather than early morning timings that is 7:15 am. Whereas, high schools start timing has also been shifted to 9:40 am from 7:40 am, while the timings of primary schools have abandoned from 9:40 am and moved back to (7:40 am or 8:40). (Wilson, 67)

Teens are very susceptible to sleep disorders due to their extremely busy days and increased responsibilities such as work and after school activities. School, homework, work, and after school activities take up a pretty big chunk of the day and end up leaving a teen totally worn out. The stress of trying to accomplish all these things and social pressures can prevent a teen ...