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Start School Later for Better Sleep

The document discusses the problem of high school start times being too early for adolescents, preventing them from getting enough sleep. Research shows shifting start times later allows for more sleep, which benefits students' health, safety, academic performance with higher attendance, test scores, and lower rates of tardiness, substance abuse and depression. However, some teachers believe students perform better in the morning. The researchers will study sleep disorders and academic performance of students at Movers Academy to identify the truth behind these issues.

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Start School Later for Better Sleep

The document discusses the problem of high school start times being too early for adolescents, preventing them from getting enough sleep. Research shows shifting start times later allows for more sleep, which benefits students' health, safety, academic performance with higher attendance, test scores, and lower rates of tardiness, substance abuse and depression. However, some teachers believe students perform better in the morning. The researchers will study sleep disorders and academic performance of students at Movers Academy to identify the truth behind these issues.

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Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM

Background of the Study

High school life can be stressful but most memorable experience in everyone’s life. At

this stage, a person starts to develop from childishness to early adolescence. They become easily

distracted, vulnerable to temptations and several changes. But people around them are expecting

them to excel academically more than they do when they were younger.

Except that the policymakers should start high school classes later in the morning so that

the adolescents can get sufficient sleep in order to thrive both physically and academically.

Significant risks that come with lack of sleep includes higher rate of obesity and depression,

involvement to motor accidents as well as low quality of life.

School hours start too early preventing the students from getting the rest they need.

Having enough sleep is important for their health, safety, and academic performance as

according to a research done at High schools Minnesota, Colorado at Wyoming, “Shifting the

school day later in the morning results a boost in attendance, test scores and grades in Math,

English, Science, and Social Studies.” They also saw decrease in tardiness, substance abuse, and

symptoms of depression.

Morning classes are valuable if you are a rare breed of a high school student… an early

bird! But let’s face the fact that morning classes aren’t for everyone. Most students prefer to get

up at noon. Professor Russell Foster, Head of Circadian neuroscience in Oxford University said,

“Forcing teenagers to turn up to school in the morning could result in more errors, fewer
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memory, reduced motivation and depression.” However, some teachers believe that students

performed better in the morning.

Nonetheless, to be clarified, the researchers will conduct this study to know the possible

effects of sleep disorders on academic performance of selected students in Movers Academy in

order to find answers and identify the truth behind the said speculations.

People should be open in anything which throws new light on the way of helping young

people develop their creative faculties.

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