A lot of high school students think we should or deserve to get a nap time or recess. Let’s see how true that is;

If high school students had nap time or recess it could give the teachers time for a planning period. It could also help students catch up on work and to relax. According to The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one in five adolescents experiences a mental health problem during their school years. Examples include stress, anxiety, bullying, family problems, depression, learning disability, alcohol and substance abuse. How many times have you seen or walked by someone crying about grades/work/school? Or how many times have you heard someone complaining about school? How many times have you complained or cried about school work/grades?

Recess supposedly Improves our memory, attention, concentration, and helps us stay on-task in class. Having vitamin D is a good way to help with mental health. There is sufficient research to show that not having enough of the vitamin can lead to depression-like symptoms. Meaning people with depression have higher chances of having vitamin D deficiency. Considering 16 percent of US teens (ages 12 to 17) had at least one major depressive episode, and 11.5 percent of US youth experienced severe depression, We most likely need something to help us. A lot of it could be the news because constant streams of sensational or “disaster” reporting, whether you are exposed actively or passively, it can elevate stress levels and trigger symptoms like anxiety and trouble sleeping. Effectively managing your media consumption can help you stay up to date while also reducing your stress. School is supposed to help us get away from home life, and also media consumption. Yet, with the Chromebooks, grades, bullying, stress, anxiety, and depression it makes it hard to cut off the media.

Now the reason why we have no recess is because apparently “their studies and electives are more necessary”, yet teenagers still need 60 minutes of physical activity.  We have 5 minutes to get to each class, since we have stairs everywhere that is about -40 minutes everyday.

Math explained (if the math doesn’t make sense to you please comment, and an explanation may or may not be provided): Think about going from chefs to Bells. It takes a minute to go up 4 flights of stairs (60 steps), and a normal flight of stairs is 13/16 steps with . Everyone has to come up to the C building at least once, because of CTE classes. Which means you have at least one period that takes, close to or, the whole 5 minutes. Most freshmen have classes in the A building, so they are mostly close together classes. (With freshmen schedules we’re not counting the gym only because only freshmen have that class. JROTC can be counted, since it’s a CTE).

We have 5 minutes to go to classes. A student was timed going up the stairs from Chef to Bells It took about 2 minutes to get from place to place.

The timing of their whole schedule ends with the time of: 16 minutes, and 22 seconds. This is without people in the hallway, and other obstructs.

The steps in the stair wells being: 233

Total: 16 flights of stairs, and estimated 16 minutes & a half.

Other students can time their schedules, if they want to show how many minutes they got throughout the day, and show if the math is a good estimate or the lowest amount of time. You tell us in the comments, but it is completely up to you.

Anyways, since the schedules don’t give us the full time we still need 40 minutes more or less of physical activity. If we have recess then athletes can get prepared for practice or can exercise. Even if people didn’t want to exercise then they can have nap time or sit outside doing work lowering their stress levels. Research has found that 73 percent of high school students regularly do not get a healthy amount of sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends pre-teens need 9 to 12 hours and teens should be getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night. In high school students will receive four to five sets of homework per week, taking them between 75 minutes and 2 & half  hours per set to complete. Estimating almost every kid gets home around or before 5. o’clock Imagine you have to do 5 chores:

Small load of laundry-A normal wash cycle usually takes between 50 minutes to an hour to complete. However, this time could be faster or slower depending on load size and the cycles or options you choose.

Cook a small meal-Preparing a meal can take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours depending on what you’re making.

A load of dishes to wash by hand-Depending on how much there is, it should take 30 minutes to 1 hour. Anything less than that isn’t clean.

Cleaning a bedroom-it usually takes around an hour to clean and put everything in place. But if your bedding is replaced weekly, and your room is vacuumed now and then, you can lessen the time to as quickly as 10-15 minutes.

mowing the lawn-it would typically take around 20 to 30 minutes to complete the mowing.

All together the chores can take 2 hours to about 4 hours. Meaning by the time they can do homework it will either be 7:00 or 9:00. This means there are two options for them, either get 8 hours of sleep or do homework. High school students when sleep deprivation have concentration difficulties, mentally ‘drifting off’ in class, shortened attention span, memory impairment, poor decision making, lack of enthusiasm, moodiness, aggression, depression. In what is often referred to as the “homework gap,” the unequal access to digital devices and high-speed internet prevents 17 percent of teens from completing their homework assignments. Over 80 percent of parents report their child having homework struggles. 52 percent of all parents surveyed think their child struggles with an inability to focus and 43 percent of all parents surveyed think there are too many distractions for their child during homework time.