what is a good reason school children require at least 9 hours of sleep?
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The mind requires time to refresh.  Nine hours for a school aged child gives the body and the mind enough time to relax.  I think that everyone should get at least that much rest.  Try it for a week yourself, you'll be amazed at how much better you feel during the day!
597014
You sleep until your body feels rested. 8-9 hours is normal for some people. Your body may require that much. Sleeping too much is only a problem when it means that you are sick or if it is affecting your life.\n\nLet your body rest.
448703
Schools are responsible for so much, and the liability is huge.  Of course parents are smart to keep their kids home if they know they're sick.  Why would you send your child to school sick?  They'd be miserable.  If you saw how rapidly things spread in a classroom, on a bus, or in any public setting like that, you might wish for the days of quarantines.  Too bad schools have to educate parents on how to act in what should be a clear situation.
667208
No. Most public schools expect way too much homework from students. I think 6 hours/day is more than enough time for formal learning. Kids shouldn't have to go home and put in another 2+ hours! The best learning happens while playing, socializing, and doing the things you love to do. Not by doing mindless busy-work. This is one of the many reasons I choose to homeschool my daughter.
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The record is something like 12 days or so by a kid. Everyone will eventually succumb to the need to sleep but when in the question. They cannot figure out why our body needs sleep and one one has ever died from a lack of it. Some theorize that we sleep because back in the day humans needed to stay in at night to avoid getting killed by nocturnal animals.
1112821
8pm. Why? Because that's when our child goes to bed. Choices are sometimes limited.
1161401
Teenagers who work jobs while attending school sometimes find it harder to keep up with schoolwork.  Insufficient sleep becomes a problem.  Balancing school and work takes a lot of energy away from other activities.
892742
if you dont sleep enough, youll gain weight, you need a good amount of sleep in a good rhythm (about 8 hours are perfect for adults, children and teenagers need more)
329421
That is enough sleep for adults.  Children need more, 8-10 hours.  When adults sleep more than 8 hours it is actually bad for their bodies.
379330
From what I remember being taught in school, it was originally introduced to help farmers and others who needed more daylight to get more work done longer. Below are other explanations:\n\n\n\np.s. Personally I think it's evil. It doesn't only screw me up by one hour, it screws me up by HOURS upon HOURS! I couldn't fall asleep 'til 4:30am!
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Most people need about 6 hours of sleep each day.  Some require more.\nWithout this, they begin to have first mental and emotional problems and then physical problems including narcolepsy.\nWhat happens to the body?  Cellular Revolt.\nOnly the human mind separates the mind from the body.\nThe single most important change in American students over the past generation which has lead to a decrease in actual learning is that many of the students today believe that they need less sleep than they really do need.\nBush would have done the country more good if he declared a mandatory Milk and Cookies time followed by naps for American students.
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I think it's one of those things that have just been around forever.  \n\nTo put the idea into a child's mind that there is a possibility that they could die before they woke up in the morning is awful.  It's probably one of the reasons so many have trouble sleeping at night.
54845
This is an interesting one which I think depends on what we THINK we need. Most folk in UK seem to generally consider we need 8 hours or thereabouts. I joined a group once which stated that if you needed more than 4 hours there was something the matter with you. This struck me as quite ridiculous on first hearing it but I gradually realised that our perception and conditioning are an enormous influence. I now KNOW I can manage quite well with 5 or 4 hours but have the capacity to sleep for 12 hours too. I am truly blessed to be able to drop off almost the minute my head touches the pillow.
152954
Happens when you come out of a deep sleep unexpectedly and too suddenly. It's easily cured by going to sleep earlier and telling people to respect your needs. Teens need the most sleep and it can range from 6 hours -11 hours, depedning on biological needs.
356540
Why do kids have sex? I think it's because they have too much time on their hands. I think they should stay in school, and maybe lay off the X-box. Learning to spell would be another improvement, but that's just me.
980335
Oh, please, I'm grading 7th grade ISTEP (the Indiana standardized test), and this is the exact question I've been preparing to train evaluators on.  I have seen about 400 papers of  answers to this question.  Because the biological clocks of teenagers change, so that they begin to go to sleep later and get up later, some say they should start later.  Others say that it should remain the same for some of the following reasons:\n\n1.  To change it would mess up their after school sports and activities schedules, especially if they changed and other local schools didn't.\n2.  They wouldn't have time to get their homework done.\n3.  Some kids' parents drop them off, which they couldn't do if school was later.\n4.  Getting up earlier prepares them for college and work.\n5.  They wouldn't have time to spend with their parents.
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The disadvantages are both biological and sociological. Sleep researchers have found recently that people who sleep more than 9 hours (or less than 5 hours) have less cognitive abilities than those who sleep between 5 and 9 hours.\nSleeping late also can lead to all kinds of sociological problems (late for school/work/appointments...)