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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (7011)	5/18/2006 10:28:40 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

Push on to let teens sleep in Greenwich Time (Connecticut) ^ \| May 18, 2006 \| Keach Hagey greenwichtime.com The movement to give groggy teens a bit more shut-eye by pushing back the school start time is gaining steam. Fifty mothers gathered at a Central Middle School PTA meeting yesterday to hear how the Wilton League of Women Voters studied adolescent sleep patterns, concluded that the start of high school ought to be pushed back and then worked with the school system to change the start time from 7:15 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. without adding transportation costs to the district budget. "New research is showing that (adolescents') hormones and circadian rhythms don't allow them to go to sleep until 11, and that's why they are not getting enough sleep," said Leslie Bhutani, Central Middle School's incoming PTA co-president. "Our kids are just too sleepy to learn," said Donna Nickitas, president of the Greenwich League of Women Voters, which invited members of the Wilton league to brief Greenwich about the issue in December. Greenwich High School starts its day at 7:30 a.m. ..... She pointed to statistics showing that the highest rate of fall-asleep car crashes occur between the ages of 16 and 25, and most of these happen around 7 a.m., when sleepy teens are driving to school. "We became convinced that the right thing to do for kids was to align their sleep so that they could go to sleep when they were sleepy and go to school when they were awake," she said. ..... "When I'm not sleeping through my first class, I'm watching other kids sleep," [9th student E. McNitt] said. "Sometimes, I finish homework a little after 11 p.m., but more often it's 12 a.m. or later. It's the same for most of my peers".....