Education News – Grace Smith
“About half of parents who participated in a recent survey think it is a good idea to push back school start times because of the benefits to teen health…At the same time, the logistics of such a change could become a nightmare for transportation and after-school activities…Dr. Matthew Davis…believes that teens have chronic sleep deprivation. Research has found several possible causes for this, from hormonal changes that shift teens’ body clocks about two hours wreak havoc with sleep cycles to social interactions and homework causing teens to go to sleep too late to achieve the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep. If an alignment of adolescent sleep patterns and the start of the school day could be established, physical and mental health could improve.”(more)