Teenagers have internal clocks, internal clocks regulate a human’s sleep cycle, making them sleepy at one point or another, and making them wake up after a certain amount of time. This usually repeats in a 24-hour process, however, teens set up clocks to wake them up at a certain time so they can catch up with their school’s schedule, this disturbs the circadian rhythm, which is equivalent to teenagers’ internal clocks. By waking before the time teens are supposed to wake up, this affects their mood, and stops teens from learning. It is obvious that teens’ internal clocks are more important than school schedules.
First, teens’ internal clocks can affect their social skills. They might stop socializing, say mean words to their friends, bully other kids in school, or lower self-esteem. Those all affect a teenager’s psychological issues, make them feel lonely and sad, or simply changes them. This is a major problem since it happens continuously. First, a teenager wakes up early and gets a little sleepy, there isn’t any problem on the first day. One the second day, they will get sleepier, and sensitive teenagers will start having effects. This will happen again and again but every time when it’s morning, the teenager will wake up sleepier than the last morning he woke up.
Second, school schedules are for children to keep on track. However, if a teenager’s internal clock isn’t working properly, they might be feeling sleepy in class, not listening what the teacher is saying, fiddling with their own stationaries, or in extreme cases, falling asleep in class. No teacher nor student wants this to happen to them. This will make them feel embarrassed for falling asleep in class or scoring a really terrible score on their test. The teacher will also feel embarrassed for making a teenager so embarrassing. This will certainly not keep teens on track, which ultimately does the opposite thing of what school schedules are intended to do.
Last but not least, sleeping helps people to remember important things, forget unimportant things, and help their brain regulate the information it receives during the day. For example, if there is a list of words that are hard to remember that the teacher wants a teenager to remember, then the teenager can listen to the list before he sleeps, this needs time for the brain to memorize the piece of information of the list, or if someone watched a very scary movie, then he could have a good night’s rest. Sleeping strangely sometimes lets our brain forget some of the information that is not crucial, so the brain will not be overloaded everyday with new ideas and rusty information. If a teenager woke him up unnaturally, he might end the process of
manipulating information into long-term memory, and short term-memory.
In conclusion, I believe that teens’ internal clock is more important than school schedules. First, teens’ internal clocks can affect their social skills, second, school schedules are for children to keep on track, while sleeping for little time will do the opposite, and sleeping helps the brain regulate information.
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