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