I have to wake up in seven hours and forty minutes. It's a really nice time to wake up. Thanks to knowing a junior with a car I get an hour and ten minutes more sleep this year than I ever have since first grade.
Even this makes me tired throughout the day. Just earlier I fell asleep while waiting for my laptop to install some updates. What's worse is that I know so many people, kids and adults alike, that are getting a lot less sleep than that and probably do more in a day than me.
If anyone reads my blog or loves me enough to go reference it, I wrote a blog at the end of August entitled Optimism http://scbennettamc.blogspot.com/2010/08/optimism.html in which I talked about how this was the first year I was ever overwhelmed with work. For some it has always been like this and for some I know its worse. AP World is a beautiful, in a terrifying way, example of a lot of work. I guess that's implied by the name but its a really hard class and the 30 page double column 12 size print with no pictures that fills the whole page...is a lot to read in a night. But more than that it is certainly a lot to digest and understand and take a quiz on the next day.
I know a kid that read the chapter 4 times tonight. I read once and did an outline on it and fell asleep at one point. He has an A in the class, I think I have a high C. The time needed to do all of this is beyond intense though. He had to spend at least three hours doing that, I know because I was talking with him, and he studied for Chem and Spanish in the same night.
The US is behind in education and Arkansas is the worst here so I don't even want to know what it's like other places but if you have a hard schedule and you want to pass your classes now in a high school in Arkansas I'm gonna say it takes a good three hours a night. He spent more. Who knows.
I think it's way too much. I know I sound like the generic kid fighting about no homework but we spend 7 or 8 hours at day at school and then getting home and school related activities, add 3 hours to that and that is 11 hours of our day. Then factor that they tell you to get 8 to 10 hours of sleep that doesn't leave a lot of time in between and we know we like to play around and goof off with friends. A social life is needed at this age and stress and lack of sleep are not helping at all.
Anyone that is doing Debate like I've started knows that if you want to be good at that its super time consuming too. It's all too much. We need more sleep, less work, and less stress. Educational reform is needed but with No Child Left Behind it'll probably only get worse.
I might've just covered about 10 different topics in a very unorganized way but I felt like writing it all out.
If you read it all good for you, you must like me or agree with me.
I'm gonna go get my minimal sleep now.
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