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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 18
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      Michael Tracey Retweeted Nicholas Thompson

      Regularizing my sleep habits has made all the difference in the world for me. When my sleep habits become irregular, it's terrible. No surprise that disrupted or inconsistent sleep patterns highly correlate with many psychological and cognitive problemshttps://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/1129499584760307712 …

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      Nicholas ThompsonVerified account @nxthompson
      Not sleeping enough: "makes you dumber, more forgetful, unable to learn new things, more vulnerable to dementia, more likely to die of a heart attack, more likely to get cancer, hurt more..." https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-getting-enough-sleep-and-its-killing-you/ …
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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 18
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      One of my pet issues is demanding that schools open later. I see no reason why school can't begin at 10 or 11am and end at 4 or 5pm. I know I was inhibited from learning adequately due to being exhausted by getting to school at 7:15. Many others had the same experience

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    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 18
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      Kids are resistant to going to bed early, and resistant to waking up early. So why not accomodate their natural sleep tendencies to some marginally greater extent. You will probably see an improvement in behavioral outcomes

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    4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 18
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      I guess this would apply more to high school, where kids can secure their own transportation more easily, than earlier grades. I understand the practical considerations with parents having to get to work. But in theory I think this would be a much better arrangement

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    5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 18
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      There's this weird cultural sense that waking up extremely early is somehow virtuous. I wake up early now, but for practical reasons, not reasons of virtue. Almost everyone I knew as a teenager (with some oddball exceptions) would naturally wake up at around 10-11am if they could

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 18
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      The idea that kids need to be on some kind of Wall Street work schedule in order to prepare them for the "real world" is so stupid. The priority for school should be to create the conditions where they can learn optimally. It's not "coddling" to make adjustments to enable that

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        2. Spastic Fluffball  🐻‏ @Catos_cat May 18
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          Assuming these students get full time employment, jobs don’t let these people sleep in till whenever they want.

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        3. Scott Munro‏ @FrostySumo May 18
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          True, but schools should not just be in the business of Preparing kids for how stupid our labor system is. They should be in the business of teaching practical skills and making sure students can figure out how to do what they enjoy for a living.

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        2. Mike‏ @mayresify May 18
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          You say all of this assuming schools (public schools specifically) are in place for kids to learn optimally. It's not. it's to prepare the majority for drone jobs. I share your demand for this to change, but the public school system has proven to be largely inflexible to change.

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        1. Jeffrey A Nolan‏ @JeffreyANolan1 May 18
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          True, but that's the premise, though. Summer vacation recovery and the time off itself is costly to a kid's education. The review takes a month out of the year, too. Year round school stops tha and ends teachers on Sumr unemployment. That's an adjustment I think we can agree on.

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        1. StarfishSLG‏ @StarfishSLG May 18
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          Absolutely. No coddling by allowing them to sleep in.

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        1. Dragonmaker‏ @aquaponicdave May 18
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          I'm guessing you never had to choose between workers who couldn't show up for work in the morning and those who could manage to do that. The "real world" exists. If you prepare for it, then you generally do better.

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        1. KGH‏ @ArtbyKGH May 18
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          Though any significant progress in this area would also have to address adult schedules too 🤔pic.twitter.com/SWsVFMRX58

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        1. KGH‏ @ArtbyKGH May 18
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          My local district did move middle school & HS start times back a bit. They did that by making the Elementary School kids get up earlier 😏

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        1. MJ‏ @m0mmy_talk May 18
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          I absolutely agree! I homeschool 6 kids (sk through 12). It varies by personality. 3 are best midday. 2 teens are early, 1 teen is an evening learner. Homeschooling allows them flexibility to learn when they're sharpest. Unless we have an appt, we don't have a wakeup time.

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        1. Operation Hard Block‏ @HardBlockWAR May 18
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          More important than diet and exercise in my book.

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        1. Rogue Photo‏ @amolitor99 May 18
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          There is a trend in modern schooling to change this. In Bellingham, elementary schools start at 8, followed by high schools, then middle schools. The science is clear. HS should open last, but that screws with after school activities, hence the compromise here.

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        1. Scott Munro‏ @FrostySumo May 18
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          Yeah it's even been proven that kids do better if they're allowed extra sleep especially in high school. I believe a study said that if school started at 9 instead of 8 in the morning it would increase participation and health of the students.

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        1. Robert 🇮🇹 🌎Kearney‏ @Robkearney1981 May 19
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          That's all my generation was really ever taught in school, just study for a career in an office cubicle in order to be a good wage slave and consume material goods. Thank God I never bought into that BS, but that was what we were spoon fed in those days.

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        1. Robert R. Freitag II‏ @freitag_ii May 18
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          Normative statement, there. Where did you get the idea that a well-integrated and cultivated personality is a prerequisite for success in this society? It's all about pedigree and school connections. The kind of thing that you're either born with or not.

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        1. Jennifer Kashani‏ @JenniferKashani May 18
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          Plus kids of all people are he ones who need their sleep to grow properly.

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