Late Start Petition
If you are interested, read the petition and sign it. It has over 3500 signatures already.
Tuesday Open Thread
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
Comments
Confused
-HS Parent
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/educationlab/2013/11/01/uw-doctors-seattles-high-schools-should-start-later/
I'm SO hoping for a later start time for middle and high school kids. Their bodies need more sleep, and their minds just aren't ready to learn at such an early hour.
-SPS parent
It's hard to believe someone would even bother to make a comment like this nowadays. Do you even know what the issues are?
Sign me,
Also Old Fashioned, But Knows How To Read The Research
Read the research. national sleep foundation
Research shows that adolescents require at least as much sleep as they did as children, generally 8 1/2 to 9 1/4 hours each night (Carskadon et al., 1980). Key changes in sleep patterns and needs during puberty can contribute to excessive sleepiness in adolescents, which can impair daytime functioning. First, daytime sleepiness can increase during adolescence, even when teens’ schedules allow for optimal amounts of sleep (Carskadon, Vieri, & Acebo, 1993). Second, most adolescents undergo a sleep phase delay, which means a tendency toward later times for both falling asleep and waking up. Research shows the typical adolescent’s natural time to fall asleep may be 11 pm or later; because of this change in their internal clocks, teens may feel wide awake at bedtime, even when they are exhausted (Wolfson & Carskadon, 1998). This leads to sleep deprivation in many teens who must wake up early for school, and thus do not get the 8 1/2 - 9 1/4 hours of sleep that they need.
-Start Later
-How old are your kids?
-What time do they go to bed, and what time do they wake up?
-What time do they start school? -How much homework do they have and how many activities are they involved in, including a job?
I have three teenage sons, and the idea of resolving this issue by "going to bed earlier" is ridiculous, laughable and frankly, ignorant.
-SPS parent
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