Adolescents and Sleep-Deprivation: Should High School Classes Start La

Seventeen-year-old Jilly Dos Santos (a student of Rock Bridge senior high School) struggled every morning to be at shallow for 750 a.m. Rushing to put on organizeup, skipping breakfast, and being tardy was common for Jilly. I will dieI will drop out of groom claimed Jilly when she found out that the school board was considering moving the go about of the school day 30 minutes earlier (Hoffman 2). Jilly became a intermission activist because she knew that, biologically, adolescents go to bed and wake up later. Mary Carskadon, considered to be an in force(p) on sleep and circadian rhythms of adolescents, claims that adolescents should receive about 9 hours of sleep a night (Onyper). Many students suffer from sleep-deprivation due to alterations in the rash times of melatonin production, a hormone directly problematic in sleepiness, and ain schedules, which affects the body in various ways (Nathan). For example, sleep-deprivation lowers levels of leptin, which is the main h ormone involved in the regulation of appetite, thus increasing the chance of overeating (Spiegel). It in addition increases the chances of depression and affects the levels of cortisol, a toxic hormone induced by taste (Bergland). I believe that classes for 13-21 year-olds should start later because it would result in adolescents quiescency more, performing better in school, and reduce health risks. Based on evidence that adolescents need more sleep, psychologists are starting to believe that schools start too early. Let us say that a school starts classes at 730a.m. Students would have to wake up around 6 in order to have the time necessary to get dressed, eat breakfast, and make it to school by 730. In order for adolescents to get at least 9 hours of sleep, they would have to go to ... ...014Hoffman, Jan. To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them pile In. New York Times. 13 Mar 2014 n.p. Web. 28 Mar. 2014.Nathan, Nila, and Jamie Zeitzer. A Survey convey Of The Association B etween Mobile Phone Use And Daytime sleepiness In California High School Students. BMC Public Health 13.1 (2013) 1-5. pedantic Search Complete. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.Oynper, Serge. Class Start Times, Sleep, and Academic Performance in College A Path Analysis. Chronobiology International. 15.1 (2012) 318-324. EBSCO. Web. 4th Feb. 2014.Pejovic, Slobodanka, et al. Leptin And Hunger Levels In Young robust Adults After One Night Of Sleep Loss. Journal Of Sleep investigate 19.4 (2010) 552-558. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Apr. 2014.Spiegel, Karine. The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Hormones and Metabolism. Medscape.org. n.p. August 2005. Web. 13 April 2014.