Movement to Change School Times Lands in Howard County
A local father says high school students are sleep deprived.
Can you remember a time when you were sleep deprived? Maybe you couldn’t figure out why your house key wouldn’t start the car, or you misspelled your boss’s name? “Any adult can remember a time when we were sleep deprived,” Mark Donovan said. “ We know how it affected us. Why do we not think that it affects our kids the same way?” In fact, said Donovan, a clinical therapist based in Columbia, it does. Donovan has joined a growing movement to push back the start times of high school in an attempt to fix the “chronic sleep deprivation” that many say is evident in teenagers. He has started the Howard County chapter of StartSchoolLater, a national coalition “concerned that children and teenagers required to start the school [day] too early in …
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Terri McCulley Hicks
2:14 pm on Monday, April 8, 2013
Well Played and Well thought out point, Riverhill High Schooler!!! lol I give you credit for posting this comment. But your Post to reduce homework is just proof Howard County really needs to step up thier game on English and Grammer. Don't know what grade you're in but Good Luck with the rest of your school years and/or college. :) more ›