Public Forum
Alternative Start Time
WHEN: Tuesday, November 2nd 7:00 PM—8:30 PM
WHERE: Oyster River High School - Library, Durham, NH
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WHEN: Monday, November 8th 9:00 AM—10:30 AM
WHERE: Lee Public Safety Complex, Lee, NH
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WHEN: Thursday, November 18th 5:00 PM—6:30 PM
WHERE: Moharimet School - West Wing, Madbury, NH
More Info:
http://www.orcsd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=349:start-time&catid=5:front-page-news-rotator&Itemid=77
Perhaps we should be teaching out students the basics of "Sleep Hygiene"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sleepeducation.com/Hygiene.aspx
http://www.umm.edu/sleep/sleep_hyg.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/sleep-hygiene-101-how-to_b_412965.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/howto.html
Those articles are all great for those having difficulty falling asleep.
ReplyDeleteThe ORSD's study & discussion purpose is to identify if the current school schedule works best with the biological sleep clock of adolescents. If, generally speaking, early start times are a detriment to our students learning, then we need to evaluate.
Obviously this has a vast impact on the entire community. But it's not something impossible to do.
It is easy to tell teens to just go to bed earlier, but it is more complicated than that. Please read --
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lavay.net/downloads/public/sleep/sleepteen.pdf
The link in the previous post provides compelling information...
ReplyDelete1)Teens require considerably more sleep to perform optimally than do younger children or adults. Starting around the beginning of puberty and continuing into their early 20s, adolescents need about 9.2 hours of sleep each night, compared with the 7.5 to 8 hours that adults need.
1)Adolescents experience a "phase shift" during puberty (Changes in their circadian timing system), falling asleep later at night than do younger children.
3)Sleep-deprived teen-agers appear
to be especially vulnerable to psychopathologies
such as depression and ADHD, and to have
difficulty controlling their emotions and impulses.
This shouldn't be a difficult decision given the research that has been done on the topic.
Does this policy shift mean that elementary schools would start earlier, because of busing?
ReplyDeleteKatie has a great question. How will this impact the elementary schedule?
ReplyDeleteIs there any feedback from the meeting Nov 2??
Thursday, Nov 18th – Public Forum on School District Alternative Start Time proposal hosted by Superintendent Colter, 5:00 pm at Moharimet
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