tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082277.post6807782724667238728..comments2023-06-02T04:15:13.775-05:00Comments on Sara Brumfield's Blog: Sleepless in America, continued.Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15572116519532368015noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5082277.post-63522213514199986232007-10-11T21:53:00.000-05:002007-10-11T21:53:00.000-05:00There was an article in The Wall Street Journal ma...There was an article in <I>The Wall Street Journal</I> maybe a year or eighteen months ago that argued that children of different ages differed from each others and from adults not merely in the amount of sleep they needed but when that required sleep was most effective. Some researchers have apparently found evidence to suggest that there are physiological reasons that teenagers don't perform well early in the morning, reasons that have nothing to do with laziness or lack of discipline. In light of this, they suggested that a wise education policy might be to reverse the traditional school start times for the different levels. That is, elementary school children should start earlier, high school children later. <BR/><BR/>I have no idea about the validity of the science underlying this argument, but I thought that the reaction of many of the WSJ's readers was interesting. You would have thought that the author had proposed for the government to buy every 16 year old a brand new Porsche.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com