Sleep Deprivation
Before the sun is even shining through your bedroom window, the blaring radio kicks on, the time is 5:45 am, and it is time to start another school day. After an eventful day yesterday, and a late bedtime, you find it terribly hard to roll yourself out of bed. Quite disconnected, you pull your heaping covers back over your head, and within seconds, you drift back off inside your paralyzed body. Suddenly the adrenaline shoots through your body as you realize you have over-slept, too late to let it heat up, you quickly rush to jump into an ice cold shower. Does this scenario sound familiar to anyone? For me, this is how the majority of my weekdays begin. Sleep deprivation among teens is a widely debated topic in our society today. According to Thomas Dixie, Baton Rouge Medical Study Center, *Quote* “This is a no-brainer: teens need more sleep” *End Quote* Have you ever wondered why you are constantly tired in class? Have you ever wondered how dangerous it actually is to not get your rest? Have you ever wondered why we are even at school at 7:45 every morning? The lack of sleep caused by a 7:45 am school start time can lead to a decline in a teens’ physical, mental, and emotional well being.
A later school commencement time would do wonders for teenagers’ mental clarity. According to the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement,*Quote* “Teen drivers are involved in more sleep-related accidents than any other segment of the population.”*End Quote* Molly Melamed, 17, a high school Junior in Farmington Hills, Michigan, did not realize how dangerous sleep deprivation was until a friend fell asleep at the wheel and was killed in a car crash. At school, we discuss the hazards of drinking and driving, but never driving while drowsy. Molly Stated, *Quote* “Until he died no one understood how dangerous it was not to get your sleep.”*End Quote* Molly had to encounter this situation first hand, but we can avoid more occurances such as this by pushing back the first bell of the day by only an hour or two. According to Mary Carskadon of EP Bradley Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island, *Quote* “When teens get enough sl! eep they feel an incredible mental clarity.”*End Quote* This tends to ring true, I know when I study for two hours for a test, but don’t get much sleep, I still do poorly, and am more forgetful. But when I study for those same two hours, but I get even one more hour of sleep my test score is increased! 7:40 am causes a decline in the physical well being of a growing teens’ life. According to the National Sleep Foundation, *Quote* “60% of
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