Something They Have to Learn –
Deal with It'.” Tes, 2 Apr. 2017

Bernard Trafford demonstrates his lack of patience for students who want to have their school day starting later compared to its current start time. Thus, Trafford uses rhetoric in which he suggest that students will just switch their sleep schedule, and just stay up even later due to the school day starting an hour later. Likewise, he also uses his own past experiences on how he would treat the situations -- which he was not an early riser--, and thus this qualifies his argument for the fact that children / high schools will not obtain any more sleep if schools shift their schedules back another hour or two.

Moreover, Trafford also shows little sympathy for having to wake up early because, he too, was a child in which had the same start time children to today have. Thus, he uses evidence to support his claims of why schools shouldn’t start later through: his use of light affecting the sleep schedule, his own personal beliefs, and he illustrates how people’s jobs in the future won’t change their own inorder to make their workers happy. As a result, Tafford creates a valid argument in which is very bias towards not having schools starting later.

This political cartoon illustrates the affects what an early start of the school day has on students. In this specific cartoon, the student is asleep while the angered teacher is making a valid point to the principle who is standing next to the sleeping student. Moreover, this symbolizes the effects on students who have to wake up early for schools, and thus not giving them enough time to sleep. Moreover, this is ironic because in this case the teacher is making the suggestion of starting school later; when it’s usually students making those suggestions. Likewise, this shows bias and supports the movement for a later start schedule through its obvious dialog between the teacher and the principal.

Jakke Tamminen shows a strong amount of bias towards the current problem most high schools students are having, and he illustrates how it is a burden on their education. Thus, in order to prove his point, a radio talk show host Peter Tripp would create a challenge in which he would deprived himself of sleep, and then illustrate how similar his personality changes when compared to a tired high school student. As a result, Tripp would go into a spiraling down direction in which he would end up losing his job, he would have troubles with his marriage, and other long term effect in which are not 100% in relation to his challenge.

Otherwise, Tamminen would also illustrate a medical twist in his argument in which he would explain how lack of sleep affects the brain. Likewise, he would accurately describe what parts of the brain relate to how kids learn, and how those are bogged down if they do not get enough sleep; thus, this strengthens his argument to the point in which no one could refute his claims.

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Alex Putterman showed distinct bias towards his beliefs of keeping school on its normal routine. Thus, he begins his argument that schools already have late start once a week, so why should schools be delayed even later. Moreover, his main argument is in how starting later effects student athletes. Putterman bring up a point that community life revolves around public schools rather than vice versa. Thus, if schools would delay their school; then this would cause a dramatic change in after school curricular activities, and possible changes in parents work hours.

Also, Putterman brings up a strong argument that student will end up going to bed even later if schools push back their openings. This would be because of activities outside of school such as work and sports, so those hours would also have to be shifted back in order to accompany the school times. Furthermore, Putterman uses current high schools that have switched to a later start, and as a result negative repercussions of having later practices and games as a direct result of a later school day.

The California Academy of Sciences illustrate poor test scores with the correlation with the lack of sleep students get. Moreover, they use common terminology to describe symptoms of sleep deprivation, and how this affect students scores. Negative effects of sleep loss include impairments in mood, attention, memory, behavior and executive function. In addition, a lack of sleep may lead to an increase in caffeine use to counter the effects of drowsiness. As a whole, the California Academy of Sciences is trying to inform people of the negative outcomes when students don’t get enough sleep before school.

Moreover, the California Academy of Sciences uses associations to strengthen their argument such as, American Academy of Pediatrics in which they do studies and statistics to prove that students need to obtain more sleep in order to have a successful high school career, and not to obtain long term effects that show a direct correlation between sleep and certain diseases. Thus, diseases such as, heart disease, heart attack, heart failure, irregular heartbeat, and high blood pressure. These diseases have a direct correlation between sleep deprived teens, and later in their lives having these symptoms; as a result of these symptoms, this article strongly promotes schools to delay their school.

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The chart Tim Walker uses demonstrates his charts of current times schools start in the correlation of how much sleep students get, and then his other chart shows “biological” times on age groups times in which shows their predicted sleep schedule as well as what time their school would start according to the schedule. Likewise, the charts demonstrate an almost unbiased form of information in which there is just factual information rather than opinion.