Sleep Deprivation In Schools

Sleep Deprivation is common upon United States students. Sleep Deprivation is the act of not getting the ample about of sleep. Researchers studies show that is it imperative that students should get in between eight and a half hours to nine and a half hours worth of sleep to be capable of functioning in school in the morning. But, things don't always happen as the should, students tend to be suffering from Sleep Deprivation more and more everyday. A survey shows that at least one out of every four high school student falls asleep in class once a week. That is not the way students should be performing in the classroom, however it is shown that a school schedule is made to fit a typical adult's day. Many tests had been conducted for the different time periods that school should begin and these results show that students who start school at a later date receives higher grades than those who start earlier in the day.

For example; Murry Bergtraum students are required to attend school by 8:06 a.m. some even earlier and are required to stay until 3 p.m. which some may have after school jobs that ends around 9 p.m., not counting the travel time and then they are required to complete homework. These daily tasks send students to sleep at the late hour of the night. And still have to be up again to do it all again but still have to be to school at 8 a.m. the next day.

Use the following link for a brief article in the newspaper about this topic:

http://www.sleep-deprivation.com/news/index.php?art_id=609649

Analyst of Another Blog on "Sleep Deprivation"

The organization is in this blog is magnificent, the blog is very informative to the point in which the blog becomes persuasive. The author, Dr. Breus puts you in his shoes from the opening sentence of the passage. The topics mentioned are comparisons to the start time on schools located in Toronto. These schools begin at 11:30 which are accomodating the time schedules that certain students are programmed on. The main focus on this blog is addressing that every age groups are on different time clocks, making their bodies adapt to the 24 hr day differently. After the age of 20, your body clock performs faster causing your body to move faster which makes it wake up earlier. Agreeing with my 1st post students and even adults perform better during the school and work day when their schedule start at a later time. This blog supplies a video which gives primary information from a sleep deprivation victim. This blog cities numerous sources of information. It has highlighted words that links you the reader to more in depth defintions and more are provided at the bottom.

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=sleepdisorders&cdn=health&tm=18&gps=50_100_1068_586&f=00&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//blogs.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/%3Fsrc%3DRSS_BLOGGER
The 2nd article entitled "Tenns Sleep and School: ..."

2nd Analyst on A Blog

Assessment based on the Blog Rubric:



This blog established it focus from the title: Daylight Savings Time and how it affects the body. Adressing that the body adapts to the Daylight Savings differently. I will give this focus a 20%

The content is very informative it cites sources from previous Newsletters. Citing it's sources making it clear from where the information is from. Then Dr. Breus makes sure he uses clinical terms to not lead the reader to any misconceptions. I will give the content a 35%.

The questions that I had in my mind were all answered int his blog.
What are the reasons that are body reacts differently to Daylight Savings Time?
What schedules do our body runs on? And why do my mother seems to wake up so early for no apparent reasons on rgwe weekend? I will give the answer unformayion to my question a 10%

The overall Grade i will give this blog is a 90%. I believe Dr. Breus is informing his readers and patients about the real afects of sleep deprivation.

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=sleepdisorders&cdn=health&tm=18&gps=50_100_1068_586&f=00&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//blogs.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/%3Fsrc%3DRSS_BLOGGER
The 1st article on Daylight Saving Time

The Cruial Effects of Sleep Deprivation

Many people may not think that sleep is that important, however sleep is as important as food and water to the human body. Without sleep like food your body is unlikely to function correctly being exhausted and restless."A fatigued person is accident prone, judgement impaired and more likely to make mistakes and bad decisions." Why put yourself at a high risk that can be avoided just on the strength of getting more sleep? Accidents happen when some people tend to fall asleep behind the wheel of a car because people do not get enough sleep. This causes people's hand-eye coordination to fail when put in front of a task. This really applies to adults that works at computers for a profession, have a problem stayin awake in front of the monitors.

The greatest effect of sleep deprivation is irritation. People who get lesser sleep than need to at night, have a social problem when encountered with situations in the everyday world. Another reasons people tend to have sleep problems is because they usually take all of their problems to bed with them at night, although they go to bed to relax but they go with a burden of problems on their mind. But is it not ethical to have problems on your mind when you go to sleep so people think that they can sleep their problems away when laying their head on the pillow.


http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/BHCV2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Sleep_deprivation?OpenDocument

The evidence: A first hand case

Contestants on a television show aired on channel 4 entitled "Shattered" are depriving themselves of sleep for a whole complete week in order to win £100,000. Disregarding the compliants of many vieweres or even medicals advisors that say that this television shows is putting the welfare of these people's life in danger. One contestant named Craig North states "It was like torture being deprived of sleep...". Do you believe that not getting the adequate amount of sleep is like torture?" Well, Menachem Begin seems to believe that sleep deprivation is TORTURE. Being a victim of this in the World War Two which was enforced by the KGB and the Japenese in Pow camps. And to make matters worse the British was accused of sleep deprivation to catch the CIA and any of their doings. But by any means necessary do people do things. The image shown on the right is a former KGB camp in Vilnius, Lithuania. During WWII victims were held in rooms like this to keep them from sleep by being questioned at night so they couldn't sleep. But can you really think when you are tired to the point when you start to hallucinate about things? Some people started to hallucinate to about how good use to feel to them. This is ridiculous could you live in the days where you were arrested and instead of being beaten you were deprive of sleep. But why did those contestants signed up to this show "Shattered" if they knew that sleep was not included.http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2100478634516875461

The Cycle Of Teen Sleep

As the graph, to the left shows that teens have an unbalance lifestyle that affects them for getting ample time to sleep.
To explain the chart: "Difficulty Intiating Sleep"- Many teens seems to fail to fall asleep at a decent hour to receive the correct time of sleep. Sometimes this is because the cellular phone, late night television programs,and also the naps that are taken during the day at school. "Sleep Restricted During The School Week." Some students have many responsibilities that prevent them from getting sleep for the next day. Some have part-time jobs that causes them to get home late from school and also some teachers present them with assignments that causes them to stay up to wee hours of the night. Also, the students have to get up very early in the morning to make it in time for their first class. " Problem With Daytime Alertness" Students are not alert in class because lack of sleep causes them to be restless in class. This causes their participation in class to decrease. "Afternoon Nappping" During classes sleep is this only thing on students mind. Finding a way to get a quick "z" here and there to refresh them. "Late Bedtime" To rekindle the information that was state earlier late bedtimes are caused by the part-time jobs, homeworks and the make up leisure time that teenager students craved. " As you can see their are many elements that causes teenagers to be a victim of sleep deprivation. Sleep, Sleep, Sleep.

Do Jobs Effect Your Sleep?

Some professions that are taken by people tend to affect people in the world. One profession that affects people from getting sleep is a doctor. Doctors are sometimes on call physicans that causes them to wake up anytime of the night to do their duties. Such as; an OB/GYN doctors that delivers babies do not have set hours to their occupations. Babies are not on a 9-5 schedule making it easy for a doctor to get ample amount of rest. Another occupation that causes persons to not receive sleep is Police Officer. This is because people don't have a set time to commit a crime or even dies. Police officer that drives patrol cars during the night providing safety for the city while depriving themselves of sleep. Do you ever reconsider you profession that it might have a great health risk to yourself? Yet and still the profession of being a student take a major toll on the bodY. Not saying that is not an option to drop out of school because you get a lack of sleep. But in effort to set yourself to get sleep while being a student, put yourself on a schedule that sets your assignments on a time span that sets you body to be able to still get sleep. Choose your profession wisely and make sure you can get sleep.

Obesity

Obesity is a great epidemic that is great in countries such as the United States and Europe. Studies show that sleep deprivation disrupt the hormones that regulate glucose metabolism and appetite. This cause many people to just eat to satisfy to the lack of sleep that their are getting. This obesity and sleep deprivation tend to affect mostly teenagers and even middle-age adults. Even when people sit on their bed and fall asleep right after sleeping causes the weight to stay on people's body, making it even harder for the weight to be worked off. Sleep deprivation leaves people to fend for different solutions.

Tick Tock, Your Body Is On A Clock

Your body is on a clock. Many of you may think that you set the time for your body, however Sleep is regulated by an internal clock , which is tuned by the day–night cycles (circadian rhythm). When the sun sets, your brain starts to release ‘sleepy’ chemicals, until eventually you feel the need to retire for the night. In the morning, exposure to daylight prompts your brain to release ‘awake’ chemicals. Didn't you feel that there were many reasons to why you body reacts the way it does when the time changes. For example the time of day that you perform certain tasks depends whether or not the performance is used by the body. Such as taking medication, your body works on its own times so you may thing that the medicine is working right then and there when it is not. Even when you go to the doctor the test that are given there can differentiate the results such as on urine tests. Interestly, the body clock can determine whether or not you are a morning or night person. Ever wonder why the author of ythese blogs is so grumpy in the morning it is because my body clock is set for the night time. I am not a moring person. Find the time your body clock is set on and see whether or not you are made for that time of day or even is there a reason why you act the way you do that time of day. http://sleepdisorders.about.com/od/gettingtosleep/fr/bodyclock.htm

Say "NO" to Drugs

This not what it seems but some some people use "social drugs" or even over the counter drugs to help them deal with this problem Some people smoke cigarettes because it claims to "relax" them. However little do they know that cigarettes are stimulants. Stimulants excites the body so that contradicts the fact that they want to be able to get sleep. Also, alcohol is a drug that is known to be a depressant and that causes your sleeping patterns to be unstable. Yet, and still some people tend to doze off after have liquor in their system , this doesnt provide their body satisfying sleep. Leaving their bodies with hangovers in the mornings, making them even more difficult for them to functions. And now for the infamous "Pill" nno not extasy, the Sleeping Pill that is provided to many patients suffering this disorder. This drug if isn't used constantly make falling to sleep without it even harder than what is was before. Also, this drug is meant to be taken under the advice of a physican. In addition, isnt the picture to the left ironic the doctor is givng his patient a teddy bear to fall asleep which resembles a sleeping pill that doctors do supply to their patientson the last resorts.http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/BHCV2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Sleep_hygiene?OpenDocument

How does sleep deprivation affect my life?

Hello readers my name is Dana Rhodes and I am a victim of Sleep Deprivation. I am a senior in a very large High School. My teachers feel that I should start getting prepared for college. However, I feel that their strategies are a little to radical. For example: The work that is assigned to us at night time, that causes me to stay up to wee hours of the night. My commute to school is a hour and I have to be to school at 8 AM, so that means I have to leave my house at 7 AM to make it to school on time. And in order for me to leave my home at 7 AM, I have to wake up at 6 AM. So going to sleep at approx. 1-2 AM in the morning completing assignments, I do not receive the sufficient amount of rest. This affects my greatly in

The problem solver for Sleep Deprivation

Sleep Hygiene another crucial aspect to the solution to sleep deprivation. Some of the causes of sleep deprivation are everyday things that people tend to look over. Such as the sleep environment is it correct. Some people tend to sleep with the television on which is wrong sleep is better when the room is completely dark. Also "Only use your bedroom for sleeping and sex. If you treat your bed like a second lounge room – for watching television or talking to friends on the phone, for example – your mind will associate your bedroom with activity." This true amongst Americans, some of them want to have a meal in bed and then falling asleep afterwards. Also make sure you are supplied with ear plugs if there is a constant distraction that is preventing complete silence. Temperature, in addition play a great deal in sleep. Some people can't sleep in a hot climate or cold climates. So to prevent this make sure that the temperature is soothing enough to you can get a comfortable sleep. Another, factor is the mattress, in which many people already take into consideration "Is it to hard or to soft?". Well, make the mattress, is in betwwen both of those textures, so that sleep will be more comfortable. Make some of these factors are carried out so that sleep comes more comfortable, than a mission impossible. http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/BHCV2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Sleep_hygiene?OpenDocument