Your tired, exhausted really, you want to close your eyes and drift off into sleep.

But you can’t, someone whispers over for you to wake up, and you open your eyes. You look

across the room, and you see a few more people who aren’t fully awake yet. It’s 7:42am,

you’re in first hour, and all you want to do is sleep.

  ‘You need to go to bed earlier’ you tell yourself, but you can’t. You got home at 6pm from

practice and had to eat dinner, then you do your math homework while watching TV and

eventually get done with it around 8pm. Then you study a bit for a quiz the next day and get

done around 8:45pm. Finally you’re done, you go online and talk to some friends, take a

shower, watch some more TV and eventually go to bed at 10:30pm.

            Sleep is a magical thing, it heals the body, it can reduce stress, it keeps your heart

healthy, sleep can improve your memory and even help maintain a healthy weight. But if you

ask a high school student, they’ll tell you they aren’t getting enough of it. “I’m up till usually...

11:50pm, I’d say on average I only get 6 hours of sleep a night,” says jr. Chelsea Strating.

Any doctor will tell you that a teenager should get around 8 ½ to 9 hours of sleep a night,

but asking ten high school students of all grades revealed that only two students, both

juniors, said that they got 8 hours of sleep on average, they rest blamed their lack of sleep on

school.