i once looked at my math and history teachers time table he might have had lessons until like 5-6 pm but damn that dude had like 3-5 lessons a day , rarely started early and always had 1 hour gaps between them he never had more than 2 lessons back to back
@@lukedetering4490 then never EVER for git and stand up for YOUR KIDS rughts and dont listen to the dam school on WHAT YOU SHOULD AND SHOLD NOT be doing in your own home.
@@tobyjenny7622 It's a crime to skip school, it's called truancy, your parents could be fined if you are caught. It's not what they can and can't do, it's that we have to get up at 6am (like 4am for adults) and go to the hellscape that is school until 2am, then we have 1-3 hours of afterschool programs and 1-2 hours of homework. Then to get at least 8hrs of sleep, we go to bed at 8pm. Worst case scenario we get 1.5hrs of leisure and family time a day, at it's best it's like 2hrs. So maybe be mad at the school districts instead of the parents.
As a teen, I experienced the difference between having to wake up at 8 something and 7 AM to go to school. The difference is obvious. Great presentation.
Similar situation. In highschool school started at 7am and because I'm a night owl and was a teen, I simply wasn't productive as I wanted to be. Then college came and I had 8am and 9am classes. They are so much more tolerable
I had to change from waking up at 7:00 for middle school and 5:30 for high school. I'm pretty responsible when it comes to going to bed, as I am normally in my bed by 10:00 ( I have extracurriculars Tuesday-Friday that END between 9:00 and 10:00 (one of which is band which is a school-mandated activity), so I'm not home until 9:30) yet I still get horrible headaches from fatigue. People saying that teenagers are lazy and should just change their schedules clearly don't understand marching band/soccer or any other extracurricular.
@@Krivbeknih29303 _Goodness!_ 😮 Why did you have to wake up that early starting in the beginning during (your childhood and adolescence years) primary school at such a young age?? Reasons: Transportation issues and/or road traffic, school early schedule, after school activities, or staying up late without choice in your sleep pattern?
She is not saying that at 11pm every teenager in the world releases melatonin. Melatonin release is related to natural or artificial light stimulation. Teenagers are more sensitive to light stimulation which delays the release of the hormone. This is an evolutionary mechanism related to our circadian rhythm. Creating an environment of artificial darkness earlier in the evening will allow for an earlier release of melatonin, but it takes time for the body to adjust. Still a far better solution than changing the start times of every school. If we went with the 11pm concept, then school shouldn't start until at least 10AM. Can you imaging?
Not only do our bodies not let us sleep before 11pm but extracurricular activities likes clubs and sports make you come back home at 7:30pm and then you need to eat dinner and get situated so it's now 8:30pm, and now time to start 3 hours of homework, and finally fall asleep at midnight on a good day...wake up at 6:30am...AND REPEAT Everyday at school i feel like im dead or dying, like she said "feeling like a zombie." So how does anyone expect you can learn in a state like that? Trying to learn with sleep derivation is the equivalent of trying to learn when you're starving yourself...it hardly works and has terrible effects on our growth. Since this is when we grow, we will suffer the consequences for the rest of our lives. F0K SCHOOL people have to stop acting like it's fine and fix it up already At least make highschool schedules more like college where its RARE to have an 8am class when most start at 9 or even 11am.
Exactly. Everyone can benefit from minimizing bright light sources during the late evening, so your body settles down and gets ready for sleep, ie. turn off tv/computers/phone 1-2 hours before you go to bed. On the flip side, an alarm-clock with wake-up-light will make it easier to get up, because your are woken from deep sleep by the light gradually turning on.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Talk to the people that have the power to make these decisions, show them evidence, if that doesn't work, get more people to support your idea. Eventually, if enough people want a thing, who will be able to oppose them?
That's actually the American way. In Scandinavian countries they actually pay attention to studies like these and adjust things in their societies to live happier lives. I'm not sure why the American way is to keep things unchanged, but it is.
Its because you guys don't live here, in Brazil, the people here don't even care anymore to the corruption, cause its already generalizated on the country, fucking Republicans
We started at 8:00 and fot out about3:00but it wold usuly be 4: 30 or 5:00 before I wd git home caus gow slow tbe buss wold run ,but it wold tacke 30 minuets to git to school and that was what I thought was strang when i wold git lucky enough to catch a ride home it was 15 minuets to git to school or home so you tell me whay .😕😕😕😕😕
As a teenager I remember I stayed up late, partly because of the sweet solitude after the rest of the family were sleeping. I really appreciated that little extra time for myself and my teenage angst. As long as my parents wouldn't start work equally late in the morning, I don't think I would stay up much later if school started later.
I'm using this as a source in a comparative analysis essay for the final semester grade in my freshman year of college English. The true extent of this issue is incredibly widespread.
They are not being misdiagnosed, they have these sympthoms because of the lack of sleep. So the diagnosis is right, but the cause is different and preventable.
She didn't mention adrenal exhaustion, and the sugar addictions just to have a LITTLE more energy. The stories like the 12 y.o. 6dy/wk girl who's up at 6a competitively swims till 7pm that nearly drowned during practice, ending up in the ER from total body shutdown exhaustion. The meds kids are on that turn your whole system inside out, let alone sleep patterns. The kids who come home, fall asleep, and wake in the middle of the night to study--ending up hospitalized with severe delusional episodes that took months to normalize. I hear you guys 1st hand - driven by pressure, competitiveness, even fear. I tell the parent who's kid trains 7 dys/wk in tennis he needs a day off and the parent says, "He slept last night for a few hours, didn't he"? Some don't get much of a summer off to recuperate either. It's a really big health problem and it must be changed. Sleep well!
I agree SO much. My school starts at 7:30 and I am a natural night owl. I have to wake up at 6:30. On a good night, I'm in bed by 12:45am. Sometimes when I'm on an overload of homework I can stay up as late as 2am. And this isn't irresponsibility or procrastination. I have been working on my procrastination and have went from starting my work at 8pm to starting as soon as I get home - but I still am doing homework all night and I cannot get to bed earlier. I find when I get more sleep I am happier. I think some of the depression I have been feeling lately can be attributed to the minuscule amount of sleep I get. I have a friend who normally goes to bed at 9:30pm but school has made her bedtime around 1am. I have a friend who goes to bed at 3am EVERY NIGHT and wakes up at 6am. This is a REAL THING and it needs to be fixed. Why are so many schools and governments ignoring this?
@@twovoa2151 Quite a lot. Especially because I'm also taking art and graphics for IGCSE, so I'll need to spend more time on drawing, making animations, writing analysis, etc. At the same time, I gotta write essays for my English and Chinese HW and do calculations for maths and physics.... or other science subjects
Same here. I cant sleep past 5 o clock if i go to bed before 0 to 1 o clock. I wouldnt want school to start later though because i come home at 5 o clock so if i start even later i come home at like 6 or 7.
yeah! we have to be military men, just look outside, you have to be a military men to surive, all this wild animals, all the dangers in the outside world...
Schools should start later. Summers should be shorter, with more days off throughout the school year. Teachers should have the power to kick students out of their classes with no credit for continually being disrespectful or disrupting class. Every student should have an internet-connected device (with filters to block unsafe and inappropriate websites as well as ad-blocking software) and access to digital resources instead of having to still use physical textbooks, notes, and papers. Students who fail shouldn't be pushed forward, but they should get new teachers when they repeat a grade or a class. Teacher pay should increase, and they should be guaranteed daily planning time. Staff meetings should be limited to once per month maximum.
RogerWazup007 Judging by your last point, I'm guessing your or someone you know is in the education field! How do you feel about the curriculum given to students?
I teach Spanish, so I'm not entirely familiar with how it is in other fields beyond general information that I use to integrate content. I do feel that students should be taught life and work skills, such as customer service, budgeting, public speaking, management, civics (including when, where, and how to vote), evaluation of credibility and bias in sources, finance, digital safety, learning their rights (especially related to police, work, situations such as being robbed, scams, etc.), cooking, and nutrition. To make time for the above, there needs to be more schooling and/or less time in other areas. I propose cutting time from less important things, such as poetry, cursive writing, old English literature, and repeated history material. However, one thing that has bothered me since I was a student was how students often aren't responsible for what they learn after a semester ends, resulting in everyone forgetting what they learn and teachers reteaching it over and over again (also caused by long summer breaks). It would be great to have material be referenced in following years with higher-level thinking and/or integrated approaches instead of teaching WWII multiple times from scratch. As for returning subjects, I think that one class in all major science fields should be required in high school: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and psychology. Math should be taught such that students know when, why, and how to use it in the real world instead of only knowing how to solve problems that are right in front of them, usually based on the current section. PE should teach more independence to the point where students can design their own workout routines instead of class consisting of only doing what the teacher says. English should include codeswitching to modern professional English with tasks that students will see in college and at work, such as writing emails, writing academic essays and research papers, and giving formal presentations. History should include historical method, writings from the times and places discussed, and a neutral perspective rather than one that's filtered to be pro-American. Finland's approach sounds very effective: combining subjects rather than keeping them separate. I like the idea of learning about a topic from all different angles. This would be a big change to make, probably requiring teachers to specialize in a specific grade level, where they would teach English, math, science, social studies, and the others in context within units that tie everything together. Regardless of whether or not the above would be beneficial or work in the US, I think it's important that students not be pushed along who aren't ready. An atmosphere where students feel safe and where learning isn't constantly interrupted is very important, which is why I feel that there should be very low tolerance for students who are constantly disruptive or disrespectful. Smaller class sizes would probably improve behavior. Lastly, I do think that electives are important. Here, students could learn trades, study academic subjects in more depth (such as old English literature), learn a second language more than what's required or an additional language, and otherwise explore different jobs (robotics, engineering, architecture, ROTC, farming, programming, business, IT, construction, nursing, etc.). I like the idea of a career exploration class where students learn about, observe, and actually get to try a variety of jobs. The hard part is probably deciding which classes should be required, which should be optional, and how to organize everything.
I've been thinking about this concept for a while. What if through elementary school students are given bare essentials/basics of everything? Basically we teach them what they could do if they learn that and we show them what they could be in the future. Make them interested in the future itself. BUT do not force them to follow when they suddenly change their choice. I think, this is a very important lesson to teach that it's okay if we choose something wrong. I feel that the current system put too much emphasis for being right. Exams only have right or wrong answer and wrong answer is only met with critics that rarely help build confidence. This is probably the hard challenge, because this means the teacher must understand the psychology of child and personally get close to them. Then in middle school they are given choice of few essential lessons and more optional lesson that they have to take. They have to take at least 2 different classes for a semester or a year after that they may choose to continue the lesson or pick another optional class. This system is meant to let the students feel another activity which in my country rarely happen because the school and the parents choose to only focus on class like math, chemistry etc. I believe teenager should experience a lot of thing even just a little. After all a passion is born from spark of interest and spark can only appear when someone doing something. In high school period, they are required to take some classes (math, finance, tax, psychology and any stuff that everyone will face in adulthood). They also have to take optional classes like in middle school. teacher can also encourage student to combine what they learn. using math in programming is normal but what if they used math principle in sports? it could be just a simple math like what is a better angle to trhow a ball? My other idea is also what if the optional class have a special building. So, every optional class have a place where students who wish to learn that class can gather together. Like for example, there's a football stadium that can be used by students in a city regardless of their school. Students from every school in the city/province will use the stadium if they take the football optional class. I think this will encourage interaction and a better relationship because they are here with the same hobby or choice. this will also teach them how to interact with stranger as well as finding people with same interest. This idea is probably the hardest one to implement because it will affect city structure and the way people live.
@@myrrhder8964 i thnk half a say is sufficient that way the older teen can fi work till about 5:00 if thay sont own a famly farm and the yunger kid can vurn off some of that engery ,learn a usful trade or just plan rest,oh yeah and i think there shold be laws agenst moms working out of the home there is plenty of jobs and trades that thay can do in the home.
JRoc. And you’ll still end up indoctrinated and praised for conformity and bulimia. Most of what you learn in school is absolute garbage. It’s just a government babysitting service. It’s easier to control an indoctrinated, uncreative, sleep deprived and depressed population than it is to control a non-indoctrinated, creative, energized and happy population. It’s all to get Students adjusted to the workforce of tomorrow, while it should be preparing them for the future of today. But nope, the Government just wants corporate little slaves who can’t question, and who can’t voice or have basic human rights. Most Teachers to a fair few even having liberal views, and assignments that pushes left agendas are getting to the desks of children. I remember an acquaintance of mine who was given an assignment like that. He was told to write a Paper on how Gun violence can be resolved by changing gun laws, and give evidence, support it, and source it if it came from a Website. Instead, he wrote how Guns are NOT the problem, only the people who obtain them. And how by funding Health care, people with psychosis or another form of Mental illness can get the help they need, at even lower costs! But he got a Fat F, and was berated by his Teacher for not being “anti gun”, and how she was disgusted by his short minded response. He brought it up with his parents. and the parents were appalled. They took it up to the school, and even the board. (Mind you it’s a Private School), the parents couldn’t really do anything, but the School would end up training their Teachers better and checking the assignments students get very closely. Sadly, it’s probably still the same.
Brandon Cordoop With an adjustment of class length and which classes would be taken, it can be possible. We just need to overcome our bias of school days needing to be 8 hours long.
TheRoomcleaner in all honesty. my cousin goes to private skl, his classess are 30min each, i go to a grammar skl and mine r 50min. he often has triple periods etc so he gets rougly the same as a double at my skl. indeed smaller classes are better and more free periods for self study is needed
If school would start later I'd go to bed later. That's what happens when I have lessons at 8:50. If you want teenager to have more time to sleep then stop giving us so much damn homework. The problem is that you go to school for 6-8 hours and then go back home spend 2-3h doing the homework. How do I sleep more if I don't have all that much time to eat and do stuff that's important to me? I know that homework is usually there to help you learn but it's too much and it's not always helping at all. Wendy you don't understand that we are busy people and it's not because of the work times that we don't get to sleep enough but because we are too busy of people. We will sleep the same amount of time, but sure - we'd feel better if we wake up at later hours, but I don't think that's enough to help fix the problem. This is my experience as 17yr old sleeping 4-6h between each day Monday through Friday, sleeping 10-11h between Friday and Saturday, 8-9h Saturday to Sunday. I agree that the school starting at 8:30 would be good but this is not a solution to sleep deprivation, this is only a band-aid. I have lessons at either 8:00 or 8:50 in my school and as you can see by my schedule, wake-up time is not a problem. I also wake up naturally most of the time because I'm so used to these waking hours. It does make it easier to stand up from the bed when the sun is higher up, if that makes any sense to you. A lot of work is not the only thing that makes us sleep less, because we could just use our free time to sleep less. However, you may sometimes get so nervous due to the amount of information overload that you may have trouble sleeping while in bed due to stress from upcoming tests and difficulties learning something (because you can't just simply learn everything especially with 5-6 different subjects each day).
Right on. Not only do our bodies not let us sleep before 11pm but extracurricular activities likes clubs and sports make you come back home at 7:30pm and then you need to eat dinner and get situated so it's now 8:30pm, and now time to start 3 hours of homework, and finally fall asleep at midnight on a good day...wake up at 6:30am...AND REPEAT Everyday at school i feel like im dead or dying, like she said "feeling like a zombie." So how does anyone expect you can learn in a state like that? Trying to learn with sleep derivation is the equivalent of trying to learn when you're starving yourself...it hardly works and has terrible effects on our growth. Since this is when we grow, we will suffer the consequences for the rest of our lives. F0K SCHOOL people have to stop acting like it's fine and fix it up already At least make highschool schedules more like college where its RARE to have an 8am class when most start at 9 or even 11am.
Comand94 I think this is a great point you made. Homework (and the very methods used to "teach" students) is a very big problem that causes stress, but I believe there should be a balance. Start school at a later time and create a curriculum that allows students to do schoolwork over homework, with the option to take home smaller assignments or simple things to help a child study. The way the school system and labor/jobs systems are set up (in America at least) are not optimal to allowing students and employees time to explore themselves, their communities, and the world at large. American school systems don't even teach students critical thinking skills to form their own opinions - all of it is about regurgitating information to become a model employee in the work force. And don't get me started on that!!
2-3 hours of homework? U lucky bastards. ))) I remember the times when we had to stay up till midnight at middle school, because of homework. A very few teachers really cared about balancing that out, so you could get MASSIVE hometasks on a whole bunch of subjects in a single day. So when we got about 14 years old, most of us preferred to ditch homework almost completely and compensate our grades with ones we got in class. Btw, even now most schools in Russia don't have lockers, so you also have to carry ALL your books and other stuff with you every day.
*Wakes up at 6:30 "Time to go to school for 8 hours just to sit in a classroom and not learn anything because this education system is a joke!" The problem isn't with school starting early. The problem is more that a lot of time is wasted in the classroom that could be used for studying the stuff yourself and learning at over twice the pace.
Wow, this makes so much sense! As a teen I remember not even being tired until later, and having a hard time waking up around 6:30. As an adult I'm already tired around 8 and I wake up on my own at 6:30. The research backs up the way I feel and that's super neat!
for the 'we need to toughen them up for the real world', I can say that my parents sleep more than I do, my mom starts work at 10, my dad starts at 8, and I start at 7.15 so urm- also my mom always make me sleep early but i always still have hw so i end up waking at 4am to do hw so idt thats any better lmao
@Kamil Klepacki But she is right. Didn’t you listen to what she said. In puberty, our biological clocks are delayed. You wanna blame teenagers for something they can’t control????
@Kamil Klepacki because she is. It’s a real hormone. Lmaooo ttheres research and hundreds of evidence into this. Are you even a student or just a school staff member or sumn because your acting sis.
As a sixth grader I had depression, anxiety, and ADHD to begin with, but the fact that I had to get up at 5:30 am made it much worse. It makes me sick that what I had to go through could have been much less difficult if only my school system had paid attention to science.
I am a teenager and my sleep deprivation got so severe during the school term that my body learnt to sleep through 45 minutes of my alarm clock ringing next to my head. I was so desperate for sleep that I skipped school once in a few weeks to get some sleep at home. I also learnt to tutor myself at home to make up for that lost time. Unfortunately, many of my peers don't have my privilege and most simply fall asleep during classes. They are not lazy or disrespectful, they simply can't help but fall asleep. This situation needs to change.
She brings up a great point, and honestly in my experience I used to ditch a lot, but when I did I just wanted more sleep. Now with this ditching habit I woke up, and felt like Hey why not go to school? I honestly didn't consciously didn't know this was a legitimate factor that played in all factors of my psychological understanding to even my biological functions. In all honesty this video brings up a great point, being in the US California our schools had to get up early, and what sucks is my father had to smack me with a 1 by 2 piece of wood that Linda hurt to get me up. Wow like wow literally wow this is just observed. I honestly can't thank you enough for being this valuable, and unnoticed information that has a huge impact on the future generations. This video is amazing, and honestly I would push districts to move the starting set, but for now I'm going to go back to bed night lol.
see now im glad she said some valid points about this issue but take a look and see how nothings change schools still start at dawn. she stated this is an epidemic (a sleep specialist )but its still ignored and no matter what i say about the fact or what she said about this issue nothings going to change
My high school started at 730am, my bus picked me at 630am, and i got to get ready at 530am. I typically did't go to sleep until maybe 1130 or midnight. I usually spent the schoolday fighting to stay awake.
School were created to train people to work at factories during the industrial revolution. And they haven’t changed that much seeing we are forced to follow schedules instead of learning how to make decisions.
Same thing. Go to school, stress out, go to college, stress out, student debt, then a normal paying job or 9 to 5 job. School is designed as "you either succeed or fail"
I can attest to the dreaming bit. Since summer started, I've been getting a good 8-9 hours of sleep rather than my 6 hour average during the school year, and I've actually been dreaming. I can't remember dreaming while in school.
YES ME TOO. lockdown school's been starting at 8:45-9:10 every day and it's been fantastic because you can wake up like, ten minutes before you even have to start. too bad most of us (myself included) are going back this week.
My school district changed from starting at 7:30am to 8:30am and I can definitely say I felt so much better, less tired, and more open to learning at school after that change. It's like suddenly, I didn't dread school so much.
Us teachers want what's best for our students, and sleep is one of the first things we ask students, "are you sleepy, I'm sorry you didn't get enough sleep."
@@tabithadiver6052 if they were actually sorry they would care enough to make school hours better for students. Obviously they don't care that much cuz were still waking up at 5 am .
Finally someone talking about it! As a teen (and as a child as well), I suffered greatly because of having to get up so early. I was never a morning person. I slept through the first lectures at uni, and I never worked at a job that required showing up early in the morning (save for maybe a month, and that was horrific). And here I am again at 37, having to go through that nightmare again because my son has reached school age. And yes, he's no morning lark either.
Watching this like 😍😀😍 even though I’m 32! I said to myself: finally someone rationalized why my whole life got destroyed as a teenager. Nowadays I sleep better, I can read and understand complicated books and subjects. Not to mention: I recently realized that I have a natural aptitude for math and logic that I was always bad at it in school. Probably because of lack of sleep and when I was 9 and was in third grade, my math teacher slapped me right on my left ear and caused a lot of damage and long lasting effect on my hearing. I was terrified at every math teacher and math itself. I remember once we visited a relative with my aunt, I saw my math teacher that she lived next to the house of that lady we visited, I immediately pied in my pants and my aunt got angry and hit me, because I was old enough not to pie in my pants. I didn’t dare uttering a single word! I also hated school because the very first day, the very first day I went to school when I was still 5, the headmaster hit both my hands with a wood stick with a nail on the top end of it that severely injured both my hands and I still have the scars on my both hands. I didn’t even dare to tell my widowed busy mom who mothered 8 other children. And my father died before my birth. Even though he wouldn’t do much about it. Because back in those days there was a stupid famous erroneous quote that parents lived by it, I guess it is attributed to Stalin, families usually told the school headmaster and teachers when they sent their children to school, that stupid quote was “I hand you my child, his flesh is yours, his bones are mine!” Which means just don’t break his bones, otherwise his flesh is totally yours! So naturally they took every advantage of tenderizing our flesh.
You know what's ironic? This video was given to me for a school project. We have to look at what's persuasive about her and this video. Before hand we hand to list reasons class should start at 10:00am instead of 9:00am. Of course they're not going to change anything though; they already have a system going with the school and we wouldn't want to stuff up the school time table for our well being would we? It's also ironic that I didn't get to eat my breakfast because we had a Zoom meeting at 9:00am. I had to eat cold toast and marmalade.
my classes started at 7am when I was in High School. I was tired everyday, and because of it I drunk too much coffee, and its gave me only anxiety and stomachaches 🤒
My son has epilepsy and had several seizures as a direct result of being sleep deprived. Other days he was exhausted and walking into a seizure, so I had to keep him home. When I felt the brunt of those missed days, when his grades suffered when it should not have been a problem, I suggested the school start later and was told the sports program would suffer. I got mad at the school for not caring as much about my son as they did about their sports program. Screw football. His mind was worth more than that.
camerrill Wow, you expect the entire school to be centered around the needs of just your kid? Maybe consider hiring a private instructor if your kid can't get up at a normal time instead of trying to screw every kid in the school out of after-school activities just to cater to your needs.
Same, but at the moment when a teacher asks for a note, I'm just like *shiz*. My mom cares more about my grades than about my health. She got a letter telling her I was failing a class and was like "When your dad comes home, he's removing the lock from your bedroom door! WHY AREN'T YOU STUDYING? STOP BEING SO LAZY AND WORK ON YOUR SCHOOL WORK! YOU CAN'T JUST LOCK YOUR DOOR NOW! THAT WONT HELP YOU!" like seriously, she scares me more than horror games. My heart was beating so freakin fast. Yay on destroying my health:D can't wait to die an early death and be gone. If my mom wasn't so crazy, I'd be ditching more.
@@twovoa2151 My brother and mom are abusive and my sister always reminds me that I'm a failure, that's why. I keep my sanity and a bruise-free body with the door locked otherwise they welcome themselves in 24/7 and drive me mad. The only people who have their doors left open are the ones who trust the people around them.
Last year when i was in high school, it started at 7am. Now in college, my earliest class is 10am and there has been a noticeable increase in my mental health.
If only the government took a care towards it's people.. if only the education system managers cared to improve education. on the contrary, we have leaders who try to dumb us down, to tire us, to fail us. the dumber the population is, the better it is for those in power.
Thank you very much. It was a very informative video. We just remember that a sleep affects our growth, our studies, and especially things like memory✋
No wonder why i felt so MISERABLE everyday of my life. It RUINED me now that i really think of it. I remember being tired everyday. Bed time was at 10pm and i remember never feeling tired around that time. I am so glad i came across this. This tells me so much about my teens.
When I was in high school, i was going through existential crisis, ulcerative colitis and depression. Waking up at 5:30 (~6-7 hrs of sleep) every morning only made me want to kill myself more
I don't know how it works in the US or other countries, but where I come from, by 6am most of us (students, and therefore, a lot of parents and teacher) are already in our way to school, or sometimes even already there. If waking up at 6am is troubling for a teenager, imagine the whole family (teenagers, parents and in sometimes even small children) having to wake up at 4:30 am to catch the bus, or so you don't get stuck in traffic and arrive late to school. So yes, this is a HUGE problem that definitely needs to get solved all over the world, despite how hard it may seem. I think it's ultimately worth it.
I know most people on this video already have their mind set on needing a change but let me, a current Junior in high school present a case. I am a student who does cross country, multiple AP classes, clubs, and early morning church seminary before school. To me, this type of change will only make things worse for me. My school currently starts at 7:30 and seminary starts at 6:00 for me. The reason I won't get any extra sleep is right after school I go straight to practice, then I get home at around 5:00. Then, once home I can eat dinner and start working on homework. because of my AP classes, this takes me all night to finish my homework, and when I have a club or church thing to go to I find myself staying up till midnight most nights. Now imagine if school was pushed back by an hour. Where would all my other things going on have to go? they have to be pushed to later in the day forcing me to stay up even later, making zero difference. Also, since I do cross country right after school, I would start that an hour later at 4:00 and since every day we are running on the sidewalks next to the major streets for 10+ miles, there is a chance at some points we would have to run in the dark which is much more dangerous. Also, club events and such always take place when daylight is out so that would mean there would be conflicts with my running way more often. This would mean I couldn't do as many clubs, possibly decreasing my chance of getting into a competitive college. And all those problems for what... pushing back my schedule where I get up later and go to sleep later as well? It is nothing but an inconvenience to me. A person from my school actually did a TEDx youth talk about this topic and why the time shouldn't change. I will link the video of it if you would like to see more. ua-cam.com/video/NFU7QwHvpB8/v-deo.html
I go to a high school in Georgia, US. Classes start at 07:20 every morning. I have to wake up around 06:00 every morning, so I only get a bit over seven hours per night. However, I'm in a better situation than I could've been; I am lucky enough to have a father who can drive me to school around 06:50, but the bus I would normally take if not for that would arrive near my home at 06:20 every morning. It sucks, truly
Matthew Mora Fellow (soon to be former, graduating next week) WCPSS student here. We start at 7:25, and thanks to my school being a Magnet School, I wake up at 5:30 at LATEST to take a 40 minute commute to get to school on time.
I did a persuasive essay in college on why schools should start later for high schoolers. It’s stupid schools expect teens to wake up early and do school work along with work, extra curricular activities, and homework afterwards and blame us for being tired. Their circadian rhythms don’t allow them to fall asleep until 11 AM. It messes up their sleep cycle if they try to go to sleep earlier than that. I literally remember in high school when kids were sleeping or had their head in their arms on the table, the teacher would ask if they wanted to go the nurse. School systems are a joke.
If only schools understood, my school starts at 7:00 and the reporting time is 6:45 also some kids bus arrive as 5:00, I usually get 3 to 5 hours of sleep and I have continuous classes after my school lol
I studied in a school in India where the native language medium school started at 7 am followed by ours at 12:30 pm to 5:30pm. I can definitely say my overall development is better than students who went to morning school in other private schools. I think it came down to I woke up in the morning around 8 and spent best part of the day doing what I wanted do when my mind was fresh and not what I was forced to do.
"Adolescence is a period of dramatic brain development, particularly in the parts of the brain that are responsible for those higher-order thinking processes, including reasoning, problem solving, and good judgement" Well, I think I just figured out why the sleep science continues to be ignored...
thats like telling a starving person "just eat something" right now its 3:30 am for me , im just starting to get tired , i simply am a person thats not tired at 8pm - midnight , i can go to bed at 11 pm , but then waking up at 5 am is hard , going to bed at 8pm however isnt helping either , i just cant fall asleep , and if i had come home at 3pm , and eaten something even without homework , i just have 5 hours for stuff then , thats not really good imo
my high school in the United States, Michigan starts at 7:20 so I go to sleep around 11'oclock, take a shower before I go to bed or at 5:00am and wake up at 6:45am and walk to school. plus I work with my mother, we clean an animal hospital at from 3-4am and get home at 5am.
Classes do indeed start somewhere around 8.30-9 in Sweden, with no requirements of 'registering', at all schools I have ever gone to or worked in. But the kids are still sleep-deprived. This is often due to them staying up much much much later than 11pm, on their phones or computers playing video games or consuming Instagram or Snapchat content. The problem is not really that 'school starts too early!' rather than parents and teenagers having zero screen-management.
School just *expects* us to be able to wake up and learn. My mom always tells me to go to bed earlier. Melatonin as this woman said, releases at 11 PM. Most teens go to sleep however, without homework, at 12 AM. 7 Hours total of sleep, but that’s just a minimum of sleep. With homework, that’s 5-6 hours of work after school, if sports is taken into account; that’s about until 7 PM, dinner is usually an hour long until 8 PM. Homework now starts at this time, meaning that homework would get finished at around 1-2 AM. Meaning 4-5 hours of sleep.
I think that if we get rid of all the useless courses in school, we could have a shorter working day, allowing teens to sleep AND do something constructive after school.
AGREED 100%!! More stress at home and lack of education and sleep. During quarantine it’s acceptable to send homework due to missing educational time, NOT when we are at school. School is to learn, home is to be happy and relax. One night, school sent me so much homework I had to stay up to 10.30 at night, my bedtime schedule is 9.30 due to my body is still maturing (I’m 16) and I want a good nights rest. Now thanks to the school my sleeping schedule is out of order and I’m having mixed bedtimes and wake up times!! I practiced 3 weeks for my usual bedtime schedule when I wasn’t tired. Eventually it worked then I had to do the homework!! Didn’t have time in the morning, as it needed to be in the next day!! Schools should ban homework!
School systems don't even hear this kind of stuff. All they care about is making money and having a successful student positively reflect their reputation, not actually caring about the students' physical and mental health, or how they will turn out in the future.
Thanks so much for addressing this issue. It seems our youth are being conditioned to fail. Anyone who has studied child development should be aware of these facts. Who is making the policies? Surely, not competent educators.
As a teacher, I'd love to start school later, too. However, schools start early so parents can get kids to school before they go to work. If society changes to a later school starting time, then business needs to start later, too. Later start means a later pick-up time, which means an even later dinner than what families currently have. Not all students are old enough or responsible enough to get themselves to school post parental departure.
The thing is that when teens vocalize these facts we're called lazy, whiny, and selfish.
Yes, if only someone would actually listen.
Sad reality is that once we have the control, we will forget what it's like to be teens and keep the stupid cycle going.
i once looked at my math and history teachers time table
he might have had lessons until like 5-6 pm
but damn that dude had like 3-5 lessons a day , rarely started early and always had 1 hour gaps between them he never had more than 2 lessons back to back
@@lukedetering4490 then never EVER for git and stand up for YOUR KIDS rughts and dont listen to the dam school on WHAT YOU SHOULD AND SHOLD NOT be doing in your own home.
@@tobyjenny7622 It's a crime to skip school, it's called truancy, your parents could be fined if you are caught. It's not what they can and can't do, it's that we have to get up at 6am (like 4am for adults) and go to the hellscape that is school until 2am, then we have 1-3 hours of afterschool programs and 1-2 hours of homework. Then to get at least 8hrs of sleep, we go to bed at 8pm. Worst case scenario we get 1.5hrs of leisure and family time a day, at it's best it's like 2hrs. So maybe be mad at the school districts instead of the parents.
As a teen, I experienced the difference between having to wake up at 8 something and 7 AM to go to school. The difference is obvious. Great presentation.
ZAchie 123 me too, that was deppressing
@The f2p Pyro I have to wake up at 5:45 and I still don't have time to eat breakfast.
Similar situation. In highschool school started at 7am and because I'm a night owl and was a teen, I simply wasn't productive as I wanted to be.
Then college came and I had 8am and 9am classes. They are so much more tolerable
I had to change from waking up at 7:00 for middle school and 5:30 for high school. I'm pretty responsible when it comes to going to bed, as I am normally in my bed by 10:00 ( I have extracurriculars Tuesday-Friday that END between 9:00 and 10:00 (one of which is band which is a school-mandated activity), so I'm not home until 9:30) yet I still get horrible headaches from fatigue. People saying that teenagers are lazy and should just change their schedules clearly don't understand marching band/soccer or any other extracurricular.
@@Krivbeknih29303
_Goodness!_ 😮
Why did you have to wake up that early starting in the beginning during (your childhood and adolescence years) primary school at such a young age??
Reasons:
Transportation issues and/or road traffic, school early schedule, after school activities, or staying up late without choice in your sleep pattern?
Everyone saying "just go to bed earlier" clearly didn't listen to her say "teens release melatonin at 11pm"
Lord Keltain yeah this was very misleading.
She is not saying that at 11pm every teenager in the world releases melatonin. Melatonin release is related to natural or artificial light stimulation. Teenagers are more sensitive to light stimulation which delays the release of the hormone. This is an evolutionary mechanism related to our circadian rhythm. Creating an environment of artificial darkness earlier in the evening will allow for an earlier release of melatonin, but it takes time for the body to adjust. Still a far better solution than changing the start times of every school. If we went with the 11pm concept, then school shouldn't start until at least 10AM. Can you imaging?
Not only do our bodies not let us sleep before 11pm but extracurricular activities likes clubs and sports make you come back home at 7:30pm and then you need to eat dinner and get situated so it's now 8:30pm, and now time to start 3 hours of homework, and finally fall asleep at midnight on a good day...wake up at 6:30am...AND REPEAT
Everyday at school i feel like im dead or dying, like she said "feeling like a zombie." So how does anyone expect you can learn in a state like that? Trying to learn with sleep derivation is the equivalent of trying to learn when you're starving yourself...it hardly works and has terrible effects on our growth. Since this is when we grow, we will suffer the consequences for the rest of our lives. F0K SCHOOL people have to stop acting like it's fine and fix it up already
At least make highschool schedules more like college where its RARE to have an 8am class when most start at 9 or even 11am.
Lord Keltain your brain doesnt have a clock.
it just has routines. they can be changed. just takes some time
Exactly. Everyone can benefit from minimizing bright light sources during the late evening, so your body settles down and gets ready for sleep, ie. turn off tv/computers/phone 1-2 hours before you go to bed.
On the flip side, an alarm-clock with wake-up-light will make it easier to get up, because your are woken from deep sleep by the light gradually turning on.
sad how this stuff keeps getting ignored and everything stays the same way it is
They don't even bother changing things cause it would mean changing the whole school system, which maybe is what needs to be done
TheGodUnknown how does changing the schedule cost money lol
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Talk to the people that have the power to make these decisions, show them evidence, if that doesn't work, get more people to support your idea. Eventually, if enough people want a thing, who will be able to oppose them?
That's actually the American way. In Scandinavian countries they actually pay attention to studies like these and adjust things in their societies to live happier lives. I'm not sure why the American way is to keep things unchanged, but it is.
+jasonlajoie you're living in a heaven my friend
Why can't she be the education secretary
Imagine what the world would be like if we had scientists in the government, instead of rich corrupt demagogues.
Its because you guys don't live here, in Brazil, the people here don't even care anymore to the corruption, cause its already generalizated on the country, fucking Republicans
@@rodrigosetubal1 lol the system is messed up
Because she's a sleep specialist, not a school administrator.
Metsuryu Then economy would collapse because they aren’t economists.
Promote this woman
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*forwards this to the school board*
The school boards are bunch of puppet of a deliberate design. Watch Chomsky
TheGodUnknown Well it's got to start with someone.
I'm emailing it to mine.
grace fuentes Yeah sure....
*yes*
nahh, when I went to school, it started at 7:30, and from what I can tell you, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
@AshleyHayes2004 no the nucleus is the control center of a cell.
@AshleyHayes2004 the dweeb is right
We started at 8:00 and fot out about3:00but it wold usuly be 4: 30 or 5:00 before I wd git home caus gow slow tbe buss wold run ,but it wold tacke 30 minuets to git to school and that was what I thought was strang when i wold git lucky enough to catch a ride home it was 15 minuets to git to school or home so you tell me whay .😕😕😕😕😕
@@tobyjenny7622 Sorry did you even go to school?
With that grammar, it doesn't seem likely that you learn anything at sleep
As a teenager I remember I stayed up late, partly because of the sweet solitude after the rest of the family were sleeping. I really appreciated that little extra time for myself and my teenage angst. As long as my parents wouldn't start work equally late in the morning, I don't think I would stay up much later if school started later.
i whole heartedly agree with this comment
You're about a whole childhood late with this.
Mark Nicholson Right? like I just graduated yesterday! she could have said this in 2000 or something.
The sad part is they aren’t even going to do anything even now -_-
I'm using this as a source in a comparative analysis essay for the final semester grade in my freshman year of college English. The true extent of this issue is incredibly widespread.
so are you a Sophmore in college now its been a year
Wow, I didn't know American schools started so early in the morning. Most schools in the UK open registration at 8:30-ish and classes at 9am
That's just the case in India as well
same in The Netherlands, though our clases start at 8:30, not 9:00
Omicron942 yea I had French class at 6:30 in the morning
In Germany my first class starts at 7:30
Darius Jones 6:30 ? Never heard about that. Dans le privé ?
This means a lot of teens are being misdiagnosed with things like ADD, Depression, etc. Wow.
They are not being misdiagnosed, they have these sympthoms because of the lack of sleep. So the diagnosis is right, but the cause is different and preventable.
lol, I'm always exhausted at school. Good thing summer's here and I can make it all up
Sir Scumbag Me
Damian Oms lol
Omg yes
Sir Scumbag still got a month of school
Wait how is school already over for you. FML
She didn't mention adrenal exhaustion, and the sugar addictions just to have a LITTLE more energy. The stories like the 12 y.o. 6dy/wk girl who's up at 6a competitively swims till 7pm that nearly drowned during practice, ending up in the ER from total body shutdown exhaustion. The meds kids are on that turn your whole system inside out, let alone sleep patterns. The kids who come home, fall asleep, and wake in the middle of the night to study--ending up hospitalized with severe delusional episodes that took months to normalize. I hear you guys 1st hand - driven by pressure, competitiveness, even fear. I tell the parent who's kid trains 7 dys/wk in tennis he needs a day off and the parent says, "He slept last night for a few hours, didn't he"? Some don't get much of a summer off to recuperate either. It's a really big health problem and it must be changed. Sleep well!
I agree SO much. My school starts at 7:30 and I am a natural night owl. I have to wake up at 6:30. On a good night, I'm in bed by 12:45am. Sometimes when I'm on an overload of homework I can stay up as late as 2am. And this isn't irresponsibility or procrastination. I have been working on my procrastination and have went from starting my work at 8pm to starting as soon as I get home - but I still am doing homework all night and I cannot get to bed earlier. I find when I get more sleep I am happier. I think some of the depression I have been feeling lately can be attributed to the minuscule amount of sleep I get. I have a friend who normally goes to bed at 9:30pm but school has made her bedtime around 1am. I have a friend who goes to bed at 3am EVERY NIGHT and wakes up at 6am. This is a REAL THING and it needs to be fixed. Why are so many schools and governments ignoring this?
@@twovoa2151 Dude, not lying that I literally have to spend more than 3 hours to complete my homework assignments. Depends on the subject
@@twovoa2151 Quite a lot. Especially because I'm also taking art and graphics for IGCSE, so I'll need to spend more time on drawing, making animations, writing analysis, etc. At the same time, I gotta write essays for my English and Chinese HW and do calculations for maths and physics.... or other science subjects
@@twovoa2151 HaXD thanks?
7:30?! Mine starts at 5!
炎狼奈克瑜 thats fucked up
The first time I saw the title I thought it meant that teenagers should start school later in life rather than day X'D.
AllthatmakesFall I feel you bro
im 17 now and i've got used to waking up god dam early between 4-5am
Ross Mawbae nice, they have you trained well to fit into the industrial time clock in the labor force. Ready to work at 16.5 years old.
thats farming for ya :) ;)
Same here. I cant sleep past 5 o clock if i go to bed before 0 to 1 o clock. I wouldnt want school to start later though because i come home at 5 o clock so if i start even later i come home at like 6 or 7.
yeah! we have to be military men, just look outside, you have to be a military men to surive, all this wild animals, all the dangers in the outside world...
+Ross Mawbae ayye same man
this women is my spirit animal
michaelaltun my spirit animal is a human too!
michaelaltun Mine is a deranged gerbil.
michaelaltun
Women is the plural of woman.
Schools should start later. Summers should be shorter, with more days off throughout the school year. Teachers should have the power to kick students out of their classes with no credit for continually being disrespectful or disrupting class. Every student should have an internet-connected device (with filters to block unsafe and inappropriate websites as well as ad-blocking software) and access to digital resources instead of having to still use physical textbooks, notes, and papers. Students who fail shouldn't be pushed forward, but they should get new teachers when they repeat a grade or a class. Teacher pay should increase, and they should be guaranteed daily planning time. Staff meetings should be limited to once per month maximum.
RogerWazup007 Judging by your last point, I'm guessing your or someone you know is in the education field! How do you feel about the curriculum given to students?
I teach Spanish, so I'm not entirely familiar with how it is in other fields beyond general information that I use to integrate content. I do feel that students should be taught life and work skills, such as customer service, budgeting, public speaking, management, civics (including when, where, and how to vote), evaluation of credibility and bias in sources, finance, digital safety, learning their rights (especially related to police, work, situations such as being robbed, scams, etc.), cooking, and nutrition.
To make time for the above, there needs to be more schooling and/or less time in other areas. I propose cutting time from less important things, such as poetry, cursive writing, old English literature, and repeated history material. However, one thing that has bothered me since I was a student was how students often aren't responsible for what they learn after a semester ends, resulting in everyone forgetting what they learn and teachers reteaching it over and over again (also caused by long summer breaks). It would be great to have material be referenced in following years with higher-level thinking and/or integrated approaches instead of teaching WWII multiple times from scratch.
As for returning subjects, I think that one class in all major science fields should be required in high school: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and psychology. Math should be taught such that students know when, why, and how to use it in the real world instead of only knowing how to solve problems that are right in front of them, usually based on the current section. PE should teach more independence to the point where students can design their own workout routines instead of class consisting of only doing what the teacher says. English should include codeswitching to modern professional English with tasks that students will see in college and at work, such as writing emails, writing academic essays and research papers, and giving formal presentations. History should include historical method, writings from the times and places discussed, and a neutral perspective rather than one that's filtered to be pro-American.
Finland's approach sounds very effective: combining subjects rather than keeping them separate. I like the idea of learning about a topic from all different angles. This would be a big change to make, probably requiring teachers to specialize in a specific grade level, where they would teach English, math, science, social studies, and the others in context within units that tie everything together.
Regardless of whether or not the above would be beneficial or work in the US, I think it's important that students not be pushed along who aren't ready. An atmosphere where students feel safe and where learning isn't constantly interrupted is very important, which is why I feel that there should be very low tolerance for students who are constantly disruptive or disrespectful. Smaller class sizes would probably improve behavior.
Lastly, I do think that electives are important. Here, students could learn trades, study academic subjects in more depth (such as old English literature), learn a second language more than what's required or an additional language, and otherwise explore different jobs (robotics, engineering, architecture, ROTC, farming, programming, business, IT, construction, nursing, etc.). I like the idea of a career exploration class where students learn about, observe, and actually get to try a variety of jobs.
The hard part is probably deciding which classes should be required, which should be optional, and how to organize everything.
I've been thinking about this concept for a while. What if through elementary school students are given bare essentials/basics of everything? Basically we teach them what they could do if they learn that and we show them what they could be in the future. Make them interested in the future itself. BUT do not force them to follow when they suddenly change their choice. I think, this is a very important lesson to teach that it's okay if we choose something wrong. I feel that the current system put too much emphasis for being right. Exams only have right or wrong answer and wrong answer is only met with critics that rarely help build confidence. This is probably the hard challenge, because this means the teacher must understand the psychology of child and personally get close to them.
Then in middle school they are given choice of few essential lessons and more optional lesson that they have to take. They have to take at least 2 different classes for a semester or a year after that they may choose to continue the lesson or pick another optional class. This system is meant to let the students feel another activity which in my country rarely happen because the school and the parents choose to only focus on class like math, chemistry etc. I believe teenager should experience a lot of thing even just a little. After all a passion is born from spark of interest and spark can only appear when someone doing something.
In high school period, they are required to take some classes (math, finance, tax, psychology and any stuff that everyone will face in adulthood). They also have to take optional classes like in middle school. teacher can also encourage student to combine what they learn. using math in programming is normal but what if they used math principle in sports? it could be just a simple math like what is a better angle to trhow a ball?
My other idea is also what if the optional class have a special building. So, every optional class have a place where students who wish to learn that class can gather together. Like for example, there's a football stadium that can be used by students in a city regardless of their school. Students from every school in the city/province will use the stadium if they take the football optional class. I think this will encourage interaction and a better relationship because they are here with the same hobby or choice. this will also teach them how to interact with stranger as well as finding people with same interest. This idea is probably the hardest one to implement because it will affect city structure and the way people live.
RogerWazup007 it's been scientifically proven that you're more productive and that you learn more when you read on paper, compared to a screen.
To what extent? Is that from the tendency to get distracted?
I think school hours should be cut in half.
@@myrrhder8964 i thnk half a say is sufficient that way the older teen can fi work till about 5:00 if thay sont own a famly farm and the yunger kid can vurn off some of that engery ,learn a usful trade or just plan rest,oh yeah and i think there shold be laws agenst moms working out of the home there is plenty of jobs and trades that thay can do in the home.
JRoc. And you’ll still end up indoctrinated and praised for conformity and bulimia. Most of what you learn in school is absolute garbage. It’s just a government babysitting service. It’s easier to control an indoctrinated, uncreative, sleep deprived and depressed population than it is to control a non-indoctrinated, creative, energized and happy population. It’s all to get Students adjusted to the workforce of tomorrow, while it should be preparing them for the future of today. But nope, the Government just wants corporate little slaves who can’t question, and who can’t voice or have basic human rights. Most Teachers to a fair few even having liberal views, and assignments that pushes left agendas are getting to the desks of children. I remember an acquaintance of mine who was given an assignment like that. He was told to write a Paper on how Gun violence can be resolved by changing gun laws, and give evidence, support it, and source it if it came from a Website. Instead, he wrote how Guns are NOT the problem, only the people who obtain them. And how by funding Health care, people with psychosis or another form of Mental illness can get the help they need, at even lower costs! But he got a Fat F, and was berated by his Teacher for not being “anti gun”, and how she was disgusted by his short minded response.
He brought it up with his parents. and the parents were appalled. They took it up to the school, and even the board. (Mind you it’s a Private School), the parents couldn’t really do anything, but the School would end up training their Teachers better and checking the assignments students get very closely.
Sadly, it’s probably still the same.
facts its such a waste of time
JRoc then change the education system :D
Chop the whole school in half
They should just go to school for less time. 8 hrs is a waste of time and money.
Jordan Stipp Exactly my thoughts
Brandon Cordoop With an adjustment of class length and which classes would be taken, it can be possible. We just need to overcome our bias of school days needing to be 8 hours long.
also concentrating for such a long time is highly inefficient.
TheRoomcleaner in all honesty. my cousin goes to private skl, his classess are 30min each, i go to a grammar skl and mine r 50min. he often has triple periods etc so he gets rougly the same as a double at my skl. indeed smaller classes are better and more free periods for self study is needed
Well looking back at what I learned from school I can pretty much say that sleep deprivation may make you forget a lot of this useless crap.
If school would start later I'd go to bed later. That's what happens when I have lessons at 8:50.
If you want teenager to have more time to sleep then stop giving us so much damn homework. The problem is that you go to school for 6-8 hours and then go back home spend 2-3h doing the homework. How do I sleep more if I don't have all that much time to eat and do stuff that's important to me? I know that homework is usually there to help you learn but it's too much and it's not always helping at all.
Wendy you don't understand that we are busy people and it's not because of the work times that we don't get to sleep enough but because we are too busy of people. We will sleep the same amount of time, but sure - we'd feel better if we wake up at later hours, but I don't think that's enough to help fix the problem.
This is my experience as 17yr old sleeping 4-6h between each day Monday through Friday, sleeping 10-11h between Friday and Saturday, 8-9h Saturday to Sunday.
I agree that the school starting at 8:30 would be good but this is not a solution to sleep deprivation, this is only a band-aid.
I have lessons at either 8:00 or 8:50 in my school and as you can see by my schedule, wake-up time is not a problem. I also wake up naturally most of the time because I'm so used to these waking hours. It does make it easier to stand up from the bed when the sun is higher up, if that makes any sense to you. A lot of work is not the only thing that makes us sleep less, because we could just use our free time to sleep less. However, you may sometimes get so nervous due to the amount of information overload that you may have trouble sleeping while in bed due to stress from upcoming tests and difficulties learning something (because you can't just simply learn everything especially with 5-6 different subjects each day).
Right on. Not only do our bodies not let us sleep before 11pm but extracurricular activities likes clubs and sports make you come back home at 7:30pm and then you need to eat dinner and get situated so it's now 8:30pm, and now time to start 3 hours of homework, and finally fall asleep at midnight on a good day...wake up at 6:30am...AND REPEAT
Everyday at school i feel like im dead or dying, like she said "feeling like a zombie." So how does anyone expect you can learn in a state like that? Trying to learn with sleep derivation is the equivalent of trying to learn when you're starving yourself...it hardly works and has terrible effects on our growth. Since this is when we grow, we will suffer the consequences for the rest of our lives. F0K SCHOOL people have to stop acting like it's fine and fix it up already
At least make highschool schedules more like college where its RARE to have an 8am class when most start at 9 or even 11am.
Comand94 I think this is a great point you made. Homework (and the very methods used to "teach" students) is a very big problem that causes stress, but I believe there should be a balance. Start school at a later time and create a curriculum that allows students to do schoolwork over homework, with the option to take home smaller assignments or simple things to help a child study. The way the school system and labor/jobs systems are set up (in America at least) are not optimal to allowing students and employees time to explore themselves, their communities, and the world at large. American school systems don't even teach students critical thinking skills to form their own opinions - all of it is about regurgitating information to become a model employee in the work force. And don't get me started on that!!
2-3 hours of homework? U lucky bastards. )))
I remember the times when we had to stay up till midnight at middle school, because of homework. A very few teachers really cared about balancing that out, so you could get MASSIVE hometasks on a whole bunch of subjects in a single day.
So when we got about 14 years old, most of us preferred to ditch homework almost completely and compensate our grades with ones we got in class.
Btw, even now most schools in Russia don't have lockers, so you also have to carry ALL your books and other stuff with you every day.
Comand94 I think hw is only important for math all other subjects should be learned during class time.
PREACH MY FRIEND!!! PREACH!!!
*Wakes up at 6:30
"Time to go to school for 8 hours just to sit in a classroom and not learn anything because this education system is a joke!"
The problem isn't with school starting early. The problem is more that a lot of time is wasted in the classroom that could be used for studying the stuff yourself and learning at over twice the pace.
Yesyyeyeysyyeyeysyes
That is the thing
Wow, this makes so much sense! As a teen I remember not even being tired until later, and having a hard time waking up around 6:30.
As an adult I'm already tired around 8 and I wake up on my own at 6:30. The research backs up the way I feel and that's super neat!
for the 'we need to toughen them up for the real world', I can say that my parents sleep more than I do, my mom starts work at 10, my dad starts at 8, and I start at 7.15 so urm- also my mom always make me sleep early but i always still have hw so i end up waking at 4am to do hw so idt thats any better lmao
If only school day start policies we're science based.
if only
As a teen I agree with this video.
-passes out.-
@Kamil Klepacki Making us teenagers get a lot of sleep and ready to learn is bullshit? Very funny.
@Kamil Klepacki Okay
@Kamil Klepacki But she is right. Didn’t you listen to what she said. In puberty, our biological clocks are delayed. You wanna blame teenagers for something they can’t control????
@Kamil Klepacki lol I think a scientist who specializes in sleep may know more than you.
@Kamil Klepacki because she is. It’s a real hormone. Lmaooo ttheres research and hundreds of evidence into this. Are you even a student or just a school staff member or sumn because your acting sis.
As a sixth grader I had depression, anxiety, and ADHD to begin with, but the fact that I had to get up at 5:30 am made it much worse. It makes me sick that what I had to go through could have been much less difficult if only my school system had paid attention to science.
The minute 8:51 girl summarizes the video perfectly...
I am a teenager and my sleep deprivation got so severe during the school term that my body learnt to sleep through 45 minutes of my alarm clock ringing next to my head. I was so desperate for sleep that I skipped school once in a few weeks to get some sleep at home. I also learnt to tutor myself at home to make up for that lost time. Unfortunately, many of my peers don't have my privilege and most simply fall asleep during classes. They are not lazy or disrespectful, they simply can't help but fall asleep. This situation needs to change.
She brings up a great point, and honestly in my experience I used to ditch a lot, but when I did I just wanted more sleep. Now with this ditching habit I woke up, and felt like Hey why not go to school? I honestly didn't consciously didn't know this was a legitimate factor that played in all factors of my psychological understanding to even my biological functions. In all honesty this video brings up a great point, being in the US California our schools had to get up early, and what sucks is my father had to smack me with a 1 by 2 piece of wood that Linda hurt to get me up. Wow like wow literally wow this is just observed. I honestly can't thank you enough for being this valuable, and unnoticed information that has a huge impact on the future generations. This video is amazing, and honestly I would push districts to move the starting set, but for now I'm going to go back to bed night lol.
Damn. Yall can just ditch school like that😭.
see now im glad she said some valid points about this issue but take a look and see how nothings change schools still start at dawn. she stated this is an epidemic (a sleep specialist )but its still ignored and no matter what i say about the fact or what she said about this issue nothings going to change
Teachers don't really like waking up this early either ;)
Trust me.. I'm a teacher..
Most of teens in our country wake up at 5 A.M and go to be bed at 10 P.M or more!
Wat country do you live in?
I really think all schools in this world should start at 11am
yhhh
My high school started at 730am, my bus picked me at 630am, and i got to get ready at 530am. I typically did't go to sleep until maybe 1130 or midnight. I usually spent the schoolday fighting to stay awake.
falling asleep on the bus
School were created to train people to work at factories during the industrial revolution. And they haven’t changed that much seeing we are forced to follow schedules instead of learning how to make decisions.
Same thing. Go to school, stress out, go to college, stress out, student debt, then a normal paying job or 9 to 5 job. School is designed as "you either succeed or fail"
Ya it’s all true if schools started later in the day then things would be much better lol
I can attest to the dreaming bit. Since summer started, I've been getting a good 8-9 hours of sleep rather than my 6 hour average during the school year, and I've actually been dreaming. I can't remember dreaming while in school.
My middle school started at 9:10. Best school ever.
My middle school started at 9:30, now my high school starts at 7:20. I’ve been eternally exhausted as a freshman
Jealous
@@MrName-fo2td Virginia Beach VA?
lkjhb1 nah I’m in florida
@@MrName-fo2td My high school in Virginia Beach also started at 7:20 am.
Here in the UK, now that we’re in lockdown again, students can wake up five minutes before the lessons even start. I feel so much better this way.
YES ME TOO. lockdown school's been starting at 8:45-9:10 every day and it's been fantastic because you can wake up like, ten minutes before you even have to start. too bad most of us (myself included) are going back this week.
@@gestering Yes, I just went back into school today :(
The older years went back today whilst younger years return later in the week
@@ramengurung9913 I'm going back on wednesday, best of luck to you :))!!!
My school district changed from starting at 7:30am to 8:30am and I can definitely say I felt so much better, less tired, and more open to learning at school after that change. It's like suddenly, I didn't dread school so much.
Kids:make school start late
Parents:make school start late I want to spend time with our kids
Teachers:make school start super early
Us teachers want what's best for our students, and sleep is one of the first things we ask students, "are you sleepy, I'm sorry you didn't get enough sleep."
@@tabithadiver6052 if they were actually sorry they would care enough to make school hours better for students. Obviously they don't care that much cuz were still waking up at 5 am .
Finally someone talking about it! As a teen (and as a child as well), I suffered greatly because of having to get up so early. I was never a morning person. I slept through the first lectures at uni, and I never worked at a job that required showing up early in the morning (save for maybe a month, and that was horrific). And here I am again at 37, having to go through that nightmare again because my son has reached school age. And yes, he's no morning lark either.
Watching this like 😍😀😍 even though I’m 32! I said to myself: finally someone rationalized why my whole life got destroyed as a teenager. Nowadays I sleep better, I can read and understand complicated books and subjects. Not to mention: I recently realized that I have a natural aptitude for math and logic that I was always bad at it in school. Probably because of lack of sleep and when I was 9 and was in third grade, my math teacher slapped me right on my left ear and caused a lot of damage and long lasting effect on my hearing. I was terrified at every math teacher and math itself. I remember once we visited a relative with my aunt, I saw my math teacher that she lived next to the house of that lady we visited, I immediately pied in my pants and my aunt got angry and hit me, because I was old enough not to pie in my pants. I didn’t dare uttering a single word! I also hated school because the very first day, the very first day I went to school when I was still 5, the headmaster hit both my hands with a wood stick with a nail on the top end of it that severely injured both my hands and I still have the scars on my both hands. I didn’t even dare to tell my widowed busy mom who mothered 8 other children. And my father died before my birth. Even though he wouldn’t do much about it. Because back in those days there was a stupid famous erroneous quote that parents lived by it, I guess it is attributed to Stalin, families usually told the school headmaster and teachers when they sent their children to school, that stupid quote was “I hand you my child, his flesh is yours, his bones are mine!” Which means just don’t break his bones, otherwise his flesh is totally yours! So naturally they took every advantage of tenderizing our flesh.
You know what's ironic? This video was given to me for a school project. We have to look at what's persuasive about her and this video. Before hand we hand to list reasons class should start at 10:00am instead of 9:00am. Of course they're not going to change anything though; they already have a system going with the school and we wouldn't want to stuff up the school time table for our well being would we?
It's also ironic that I didn't get to eat my breakfast because we had a Zoom meeting at 9:00am. I had to eat cold toast and marmalade.
1:40 that teen in the audience looks so happy she taking bout this 😭
my classes started at 7am when I was in High School. I was tired everyday, and because of it I drunk too much coffee, and its gave me only anxiety and stomachaches 🤒
Relatable asf
This is giving me so much info for my research paper😂
My son has epilepsy and had several seizures as a direct result of being sleep deprived. Other days he was exhausted and walking into a seizure, so I had to keep him home. When I felt the brunt of those missed days, when his grades suffered when it should not have been a problem, I suggested the school start later and was told the sports program would suffer. I got mad at the school for not caring as much about my son as they did about their sports program. Screw football. His mind was worth more than that.
camerrill Wow, you expect the entire school to be centered around the needs of just your kid? Maybe consider hiring a private instructor if your kid can't get up at a normal time instead of trying to screw every kid in the school out of after-school activities just to cater to your needs.
god bless this women
Right now I'm ditching school
but same lmao
SavagerBoy count me in that group lmao
Ayyeee
Same, but at the moment when a teacher asks for a note, I'm just like *shiz*. My mom cares more about my grades than about my health. She got a letter telling her I was failing a class and was like "When your dad comes home, he's removing the lock from your bedroom door! WHY AREN'T YOU STUDYING? STOP BEING SO LAZY AND WORK ON YOUR SCHOOL WORK! YOU CAN'T JUST LOCK YOUR DOOR NOW! THAT WONT HELP YOU!" like seriously, she scares me more than horror games. My heart was beating so freakin fast. Yay on destroying my health:D can't wait to die an early death and be gone. If my mom wasn't so crazy, I'd be ditching more.
@@twovoa2151 My brother and mom are abusive and my sister always reminds me that I'm a failure, that's why. I keep my sanity and a bruise-free body with the door locked otherwise they welcome themselves in 24/7 and drive me mad. The only people who have their doors left open are the ones who trust the people around them.
she seems so angry but trying to hold back the anger
Last year when i was in high school, it started at 7am. Now in college, my earliest class is 10am and there has been a noticeable increase in my mental health.
If only the government took a care towards it's people.. if only the education system managers cared to improve education. on the contrary, we have leaders who try to dumb us down, to tire us, to fail us. the dumber the population is, the better it is for those in power.
Thank you very much. It was a very informative video.
We just remember that a sleep affects our growth, our studies, and especially things like memory✋
Here in the Netherlands my school starts at 8:30
Melody_Gofy I start at 8:10, also in the Netherlands.
im dutch too and start at 8.15
Melody_Gofy 7:30 in Ohio
7:45 in Germany
8:00 almost everyday but 9 on thursdays (in california)
No wonder why i felt so MISERABLE everyday of my life. It RUINED me now that i really think of it. I remember being tired everyday. Bed time was at 10pm and i remember never feeling tired around that time. I am so glad i came across this. This tells me so much about my teens.
When I was in high school, i was going through existential crisis, ulcerative colitis and depression. Waking up at 5:30 (~6-7 hrs of sleep) every morning only made me want to kill myself more
I love this presentation! I am a freshman in high school and I will for sure use this for my research essay! :D
Vietnamese schools start at 7 :)) and that makes us incredibly crazy
My school should listen to this
6:24 my friend who goes to most all my classes and suffers same sleep loss as we all do crashed his car driving home cuz he FELL ASLEEP smh
I don't know how it works in the US or other countries, but where I come from, by 6am most of us (students, and therefore, a lot of parents and teacher) are already in our way to school, or sometimes even already there. If waking up at 6am is troubling for a teenager, imagine the whole family (teenagers, parents and in sometimes even small children) having to wake up at 4:30 am to catch the bus, or so you don't get stuck in traffic and arrive late to school.
So yes, this is a HUGE problem that definitely needs to get solved all over the world, despite how hard it may seem. I think it's ultimately worth it.
She is a SLEEP SCIENTIST! We teenagers always say we should start school later and she says it is better for us to sleep.
Sleeping is important but Schools system thinks otherwise
I know most people on this video already have their mind set on needing a change but let me, a current Junior in high school present a case. I am a student who does cross country, multiple AP classes, clubs, and early morning church seminary before school. To me, this type of change will only make things worse for me. My school currently starts at 7:30 and seminary starts at 6:00 for me. The reason I won't get any extra sleep is right after school I go straight to practice, then I get home at around 5:00. Then, once home I can eat dinner and start working on homework. because of my AP classes, this takes me all night to finish my homework, and when I have a club or church thing to go to I find myself staying up till midnight most nights. Now imagine if school was pushed back by an hour. Where would all my other things going on have to go? they have to be pushed to later in the day forcing me to stay up even later, making zero difference. Also, since I do cross country right after school, I would start that an hour later at 4:00 and since every day we are running on the sidewalks next to the major streets for 10+ miles, there is a chance at some points we would have to run in the dark which is much more dangerous. Also, club events and such always take place when daylight is out so that would mean there would be conflicts with my running way more often. This would mean I couldn't do as many clubs, possibly decreasing my chance of getting into a competitive college. And all those problems for what... pushing back my schedule where I get up later and go to sleep later as well? It is nothing but an inconvenience to me.
A person from my school actually did a TEDx youth talk about this topic and why the time shouldn't change. I will link the video of it if you would like to see more.
ua-cam.com/video/NFU7QwHvpB8/v-deo.html
I can't help but go to sleep late, I'm a night person
I feel like I've taken at least a couple inches off my potential maximum height
I physically can't get myself to go to sleep at 9:00 no matter how hard I try even when I'm sleep deprived
My Asian mom puts water on my face!!!
I still loved her🤣🥰🥰
I go to a high school in Georgia, US. Classes start at 07:20 every morning. I have to wake up around 06:00 every morning, so I only get a bit over seven hours per night. However, I'm in a better situation than I could've been; I am lucky enough to have a father who can drive me to school around 06:50, but the bus I would normally take if not for that would arrive near my home at 06:20 every morning. It sucks, truly
MY stupid school. Wake county public High School in North Carolina school starts at 7:18, we get out at 2:18
Matthew Mora My school starts at 7:25 and ends at 2pm. My bus comes at 6:25
Matthew Mora my school starts at 7:05 AM and ends as 2:25 pm. My bus comes at like 6:20
Matthew Mora Fellow (soon to be former, graduating next week) WCPSS student here. We start at 7:25, and thanks to my school being a Magnet School, I wake up at 5:30 at LATEST to take a 40 minute commute to get to school on time.
i live in the same exact county haha, we start at 7:25 and end at 2:18
DONT POST YOUR SCHOOL NAME!! For safety sake
I did a persuasive essay in college on why schools should start later for high schoolers. It’s stupid schools expect teens to wake up early and do school work along with work, extra curricular activities, and homework afterwards and blame us for being tired. Their circadian rhythms don’t allow them to fall asleep until 11 AM. It messes up their sleep cycle if they try to go to sleep earlier than that. I literally remember in high school when kids were sleeping or had their head in their arms on the table, the teacher would ask if they wanted to go the nurse. School systems are a joke.
I’m using this for a school project of persuasive writing :D
School starts at 7:30 and gotta wake up at 6:30 am every morning for school. Its such a pain man.
Wat country do you live in?
those people who talk on teds vedios have changed my life
If only schools understood, my school starts at 7:00 and the reporting time is 6:45 also some kids bus arrive as 5:00, I usually get 3 to 5 hours of sleep and I have continuous classes after my school lol
Me at 11:22pm trying to finish an essay about sleep that is due tomorrow at 8 in the morning be like:
That's me right now lmao
Love the speech!!! She did a great job!
French school starts at 8am and can go until 6pm. Oh, and we have class on Saturday morning. Joy.
I studied in a school in India where the native language medium school started at 7 am followed by ours at 12:30 pm to 5:30pm. I can definitely say my overall development is better than students who went to morning school in other private schools. I think it came down to I woke up in the morning around 8 and spent best part of the day doing what I wanted do when my mind was fresh and not what I was forced to do.
"Adolescence is a period of dramatic brain development, particularly in the parts of the brain that are responsible for those higher-order thinking processes, including reasoning, problem solving, and good judgement"
Well, I think I just figured out why the sleep science continues to be ignored...
Its sad to see how many videos like this are made but people chose to ignore it and this stuff has been happening for years now.
it's so fucking stupid, we need to protest start times
and people say “go to bed earlier”
thats like telling a starving person "just eat something"
right now its 3:30 am for me , im just starting to get tired , i simply am a person thats not tired at 8pm - midnight , i can go to bed at 11 pm , but then waking up at 5 am is hard , going to bed at 8pm however isnt helping either , i just cant fall asleep , and if i had come home at 3pm , and eaten something even without homework , i just have 5 hours for stuff then , thats not really good imo
Night owls: 💀
my high school in the United States, Michigan starts at 7:20 so I go to sleep around 11'oclock, take a shower before I go to bed or at 5:00am and wake up at 6:45am and walk to school. plus I work with my mother, we clean an animal hospital at from 3-4am and get home at 5am.
I think you need more sleep because your grammar has a terrible case of run-on sentences.
AzureSteel Lol maybe so. But who cares this is the internet and im not being graded.
Wow, letting teenagers sleep when they want to makes them healthier. So surprising.
Classes do indeed start somewhere around 8.30-9 in Sweden, with no requirements of 'registering', at all schools I have ever gone to or worked in. But the kids are still sleep-deprived. This is often due to them staying up much much much later than 11pm, on their phones or computers playing video games or consuming Instagram or Snapchat content. The problem is not really that 'school starts too early!' rather than parents and teenagers having zero screen-management.
School just *expects* us to be able to wake up and learn. My mom always tells me to go to bed earlier. Melatonin as this woman said, releases at 11 PM. Most teens go to sleep however, without homework, at 12 AM. 7 Hours total of sleep, but that’s just a minimum of sleep. With homework, that’s 5-6 hours of work after school, if sports is taken into account; that’s about until 7 PM, dinner is usually an hour long until 8 PM. Homework now starts at this time, meaning that homework would get finished at around 1-2 AM. Meaning 4-5 hours of sleep.
2:24 she was expecting the audience to laugh😂
Currently watching this for english while on my 3rd mug of coffee at 11am. I think
she's right LMFAO
School starts at 8:40 am for teens in Canada. Why does America (U.S.) suck at EVERYTHING!?
ChaosmanOne I live in Canada and we start at 8:00 am but I have to wake up at 6:30 ish
ChaosmanOne i live in Canada and my school starts at 840 as well.
I'm in Murica and I wake up at 5:00 to get to school. School starts at 6:50.
TinaASMR X the know how ya feel I have to wake up at 4 am to get to school on time
I think that if we get rid of all the useless courses in school, we could have a shorter working day, allowing teens to sleep AND do something constructive after school.
The answer?
*_don't do homework_*
agreed
BOYCOTT ON HOMEWORK!!
It's *G E N I U S*
AGREED 100%!! More stress at home and lack of education and sleep. During quarantine it’s acceptable to send homework due to missing educational time, NOT when we are at school. School is to learn, home is to be happy and relax. One night, school sent me so much homework I had to stay up to 10.30 at night, my bedtime schedule is 9.30 due to my body is still maturing (I’m 16) and I want a good nights rest. Now thanks to the school my sleeping schedule is out of order and I’m having mixed bedtimes and wake up times!! I practiced 3 weeks for my usual bedtime schedule when I wasn’t tired. Eventually it worked then I had to do the homework!! Didn’t have time in the morning, as it needed to be in the next day!! Schools should ban homework!
School systems don't even hear this kind of stuff. All they care about is making money and having a successful student positively reflect their reputation, not actually caring about the students' physical and mental health, or how they will turn out in the future.
Put her in the senate please
Thanks so much for addressing this issue. It seems our youth are being conditioned to fail. Anyone who has studied child development should be aware of these facts. Who is making the policies? Surely, not competent educators.
thankyou maem
When I showed my dad this he said dont listen to that silly women
Leave a like if you think he is wrong
School started at 8:00 for me and then Y=mx+b.
As a teacher, I'd love to start school later, too. However, schools start early so parents can get kids to school before they go to work. If society changes to a later school starting time, then business needs to start later, too. Later start means a later pick-up time, which means an even later dinner than what families currently have. Not all students are old enough or responsible enough to get themselves to school post parental departure.
i like sleep