Paragraph 1 (Summary of the articles)
There are a vase number of teen challenges in a teen’s life such as the debate over whether school should start later or end later and the impact it has on kids to other challenges such as bullying and many others. The teen challenge I chose was how kids are not getting enough sleep plus school start times. In the article “It’s back to class, and less sleep, for many highschoolers” by the Chicago Tribune it talks about the teen challenge of school starting early and them having mountains of homework which leads them to get fewer than the recommended 8-9 hours of sleep. One example is a girls named Nicole who balances her classes plus extracurricular’s but not receiving sleep. “Nicole Bankowski gets about five hours of sleep. Along with taking four AP classes, Bankowski edits the school newspaper, sings in the choir, and is treasurer of the student council. Bankowski has so much to do that she usually doesn’t start her homework until 10:30 p.m.” This quote explains how one teen balances extracurricular’s plus school but can not sleep due to her amounting stress it is one part of the teen challenge associated with this issue. “Early school start times also push everything else forward, disrupting family schedules. Students at some high schools have lunchtime as early as 10 a.m. These students come home very hungry, then don’t want to eat dinner with the family at a normal time.” This quotes shows the effect on kids with the current school time and how lunch is affecting them in daily lives. In the article “High Schools starting later to help sleepy teens written by Michelle Thadeau” this article talks about how starting school late will be a benefit to kids but it causes the other issue of kids starting school late then leaving later than have previously. It is a debate that this article talks about whether it is a good idea or if it is not a good idea. One example is “The Minneapolis school district, for example, changed its start time from 7:20 to 8:40 a.m., giving its 12,000 high schoolers an extra hour and twenty minutes each morning. Wahlstrom says the students have benefited from the change.” This quote explains how a lady from the university of Minneapolis was following the school districts that were implementing the changes, and how she noticed the change after the time was moved. “We found that our students were more on time and in better attendance first period than they had been in the past,” she says.” This quote is according to a supervisor for one of the districts that have implemented the change and the positive impact that the change has made on the students since the time was changed.
Paragraph 2 (Contrasting and contradicting)
During the article “back to class and less sleep for many highschoolers” the author compared how the less sleep we get as a kid compared to the amount will get as teenager only decreases dramatically. Through out both articles there are a lot of comparing and contradicting that occurs. For an example the first article ” back to class and less sleep for many high schoolers” and the second article “High schools starting later to help sleepy teens” they both contradict each other the first one talks about changing the times to improve kids from being sleepy. To the second article talking about how lunch times are a affect on kids now with the current times now in place. Those are two examples on how both articles have contrasting opinions on the same issues. Both authors use the same topic to contrast there opinions. Those are 2 ways that the authors use contrasting in there articles to better make the reader understand the topic. Contradictions were made when the articles described how later times cause kids to go home later leaving them with more work and less sleep. The second article said that lunches now are affected because it leaves kids with a hungry stomach because they eat so early. That explains the contradictions that are made between the 2 articles on the same issue but further explains the issue.
Paragraph 3 (Opinion)
I have a personal connection to these 2 articles because for years I have wanted them to change our bell schedule since it is really hard for me get up at 6:00 and get ready for school. But this is a very feign issue because it probably want happen. Even though it is a very cogent argument i am pretty sure that it will take a few cogent argument to make a engender change. In my opinion i believe we would benefit from the change because it make kids have higher test scores than test scores now which are decreased due to the lack of kids not getting sleep. Providing kids with more time to do homework in school instead piling it on for them to complete while juggling other classes not just one particular class. If the bells were changed it might transfigure the way we think about school in general it would provide for more teachers to not have to yell at kids over there sleeping in class. All could be prevented if the bell schedule was changed to a later time it would not hurt a thing if we did. But with these fictive articles i wonder if anything will change we can only hope for the best. That is why I believe that different bell times might be revolutionary for kids to actually get 8-9 hours of sleep. That is my whole opinion on the topic hope it sparks a cogent and trans-figurative
https://newsela.com/articles/sleepy-students/id/5124/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6896471
http://time.com/3162265/school-should-start-later-so-teens-can-sleep-urge-doctors/