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2 years ago
Let them eat cake!….errr….sleep!
As I sit watching CNN and the latest talking head about sleep, teenagers, and SAT scores I find this is an opportune time to reflect on my own experiences with teens and sleep…..that and nothing particularly earthshaking happened in my tragically predictable and mundane life today…
According to this expert, for every 15 additional minutes a teenager is allowed to sleep each morning, testing indicates that students will increase thier scores by a full letter grade. Have I been missing something all this time? Is this the cure for the multitude of ignorant people I come in contact with or observe each day?
Is the only thing wrong with the guy who wanted to make a right hand turn from the left lane of traffic and causing a 4 car pileup simply that he didn’t hit snooze one last time that morning? What about the man who slapped someone else’s child in a Walmart 4 times? Is the answer there that he was a moron or perhaps he is a chronic insomniac in need of some serious sack time? (In defense of the man whom this has been alleged, I am not without sympathy to some small degree, we see how well the ‘time-outs’ have been working, don’t we?)
Having barely survived the raising of a teenager myself, I can offer the following observations on teens, sleeping, and school. No matter how much you let your child sleep, they will be as stupid as you allow them to be….and no, putting the AP Chemistry text under thier pillow in the hopes of absorption by osmosis will not help no matter how long you let them sleep on it. The stupid kids are the ones who are sleeping while in the classroom. Taking the above referenced study at face value, shouldn’t these kids be getting smarter while sleeping in the classroom?
