To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In.

[grasswire]

10. point not missed.

I simply don't believe the hype.

Tell me how an 18-year-old can't function at 8 a.m. but a 19-year-old should expect to show up for work at 8, and perhaps do so for the next fifty years?

The idea of teenagers not being alert in the morning has (oddly) coincided with the proliferation of evening and night-time activities they are allowed. I can see how it's hard to sleep at night with a smart phone under your pillow and a bud in your ear.

If the thesis about their need for sleep is true, why not just hold high school classes at night?

I've raised two sets of teenagers. I know this is a first world issue.