{"id":2372,"date":"2017-09-28T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:54:34","slug":"parents-high-school-start-times-and-sleepy-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/parents-high-school-start-times-and-sleepy-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents, High School Start Times, and Sleepy Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Research findings that support<\/a> later high-school start times have been more and more common in recent years. (See also here<\/a>.) And teachers I know are increasingly vocal about letting teens sleep later.<\/p>\n

And yet, when I talk with high school leaders, they ruefully cite sports schedules to explain the impossibility of making serious changes.<\/p>\n

(I’ve also read that bus schedules get in the way.)<\/p>\n

Here’s another–quite surprising–reason that this change might be hard to accomplish: parental uncertainty<\/em>. According to this<\/a> recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, half<\/strong> of parents whose teens start school before 8:30 don’t support a later start time.<\/p>\n

The study concludes that we need to do a better job educating parents about the\u00a0biological changes in adolescent sleep patterns.<\/p>\n

The more that parents understand how melatonin onset–and, hence, sleepiness–changes with adolescence, the more they might understand that their awake-at-midnight teens aren’t simply being willful. They are instead responding to powerful chemical signals.<\/p>\n

Given all we know about adolescent sleep, and the effect of sleep on learning, teachers and parents should be champions of reasonable high school start times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research findings that support later high-school start times have been more and more common in recent years. (See also here.) And teachers I know are increasingly vocal about letting teens sleep later. And yet, when I talk with high school leaders, they ruefully cite sports schedules to explain the impossibility of making serious changes. (I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-high-school","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}