Research finds it "cruel" to make teenagers attend lessons in the morning

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.....because their circadian rythmn alters during puberty, apparently.....

I can't help thinking that, whilst it is true about the changes in circadian rhythm, it wouldnt make the slightest bit of difference if they shifted lessons around to suit....

It's also cruel to make me teach lessons in the morning!

However, while you do get some half asleep kids in the first couple of periods, I actually find many teenagers work more productively before lunch (ie before the gossip, e numbers, football etc)

Yes, no matter what time lessons started I would have always needed another 3/4 of an hour.

They'll all just to have to carry on practicing for getting up at 7.30 every week day for most of the rest of their lives.

I've seen other research that says basically there are LARKS and there are OWLS. I am an owl, in fact I am just waking up now....

me too chubs!

I would have loved to start at 10 or 11am as a teenager (and I was a real swot), so much kinder than 9... Especially when you have been up late studying. I am still not a morning person. Really envy those that are

Good job they don't have to leave school at 14 and get a job then isn't it? like my grandparents did.

The European Human Rights Commision will wade in any dau now.

When I heard about it on the radio it said that they need more sleep than older people. Well then they should go to bed earlier then shouldn't they?

Wonder if my boss would accept that 8.30 is too early to start work because I was only a teenager 3 yrs ago & haven't grown out of that stage yet?! lol

I just think it must depend on the people. I'm much more awake in the evenings than the

I'd have loved to have gone to bed early when studying for my A levels! Many teenagers work very hard, and are under a lot of pressure, give them a break

I don't remember A Levels being that bad.

I'm definitely not a morning person, but unfortunately it's something one has to put up with.

No, never really been a morning person.

DO remember being crucified by apparent insomnia at night - couldnt get to sleep to 2,3 or 4am in the morning. Which, in turn, would make me sleep until 3, 4 or 5pm on a Sunday

Oh diddums, poor them. Think my circadium rhythms are stuck in adolescence, then.

LOL Blondilocks, you sound just like my mum.

No more cruel than parents of small children been forced awake at ungodly hours every morning

or the poor bastards who make up the majority of the population who have to make it to work early every day

Fgs! and pah! for good measure

I cann't work up any sympathy for then either.

LOl....well the brit teens should be still o.k. then, lol...school in Germany starts at 8am....lol!
Must say though, I agree with whoever said it....they just usually need to be earlier in bed then....must say though, I have always been a nightowl myself....

I would gladly stangle whoever decided that all secondary schools around here start lessons at 8.30 am. Lots of pupils have a long bus journey to school. As there are far fewer secondary schools than primary school, most students will face a longer journy each way. You should see how exhausted my son is with the early starting school day! Speaking to his friends at other schools, this seems to be very common. And me, as I now have to get up at 6.30 to help see him off. In the dark, cold January morings this is no joke. And for what purpose?

I spoke to someone in the school office a while ago who said the year 7s fall to ill a lot in their first year as they adjust to the routine.

So why not change the routine seems the obvious answer. I don't mean 11.00 starts or anything as drastic as that but why can't secondary schools start at 9.30 am instead?

I had to start at 7:30 when I was in High School and it never hurt me any.

maybe just not adjust the starting time at all...maybe that is why german Kids aren't bothered....From the beginning to the end, generally school starts at the same time...sometimes with an adjustment, but in the core it is the same starting time.

percypig I find my classes work better before lunch but that is more to do with the factthey know I will keep them in if they don't than the time of the day.

i found this when i was at school and college. i would sit in my lessons half asleep, trying to keep my eyes open and head off the desk! if lessons had started at say 11 and run til 5 id have been much happier and probably got a lot more work done. even to this day i prefer working at night time.

pressed enter before id finished .. the best days were definitely the ones where i was free for first lesson and didn't have to get up until 9:30am. to this day if i have to get up before 9:30 i am a nightmare all day...luckily ds sleeps in til then. when he starts school - beware!

hm...maybe it's about early conditioning.....in Germany classes as well as Nursery (Kindergarten) tends to start at 8am...when I started my Nursing Training lessons started at nearer 9am and went till later, and I found that much more tiring, even though I tend to be a nightowel....