Nap Time

In elementary school, up until a certain grade, every day we would get nap time. There was a specific time in the day where we would get out our cots and the teachers would turn off the lights and we were supposed to take a nap. If you weren’t napping, you were supposed to be quite so those around you could nap if they wanted to. I’m pretty sure only a few kids actually napped during nap time; I know I was not one of those kids. Most of us just wanted to talk and play games, we didn’t want to lay there and be quite, and that was like punishment to us back then.

In elementary school, we just weren’t tired during the day, but as we got to middle school, we would start to get more and more tired, and now that high school rolls around, we wish we had nap time. Kids are falling asleep in class they’re so tired in high school. We’ll literally roll out of bed and come to school.

These young kids in preschool through about third grade are getting probably ten hours of sleep a night because they have a bed time, so they aren’t tired during the day, yet they get a nap time. Whereas high schoolers probably get anywhere from 4-7 hours of sleep, maybe 8 if you’re lucky. High schoolers just simply don’t get the required amount of sleep for our age, yet we don’t get a nap time at school? We stay up late to do our homework after we get home from practice and or work, we’re up till midnight sometimes later doing thing and then we have to get up early and do it all again the next day. It’s a constant cycle of not enough sleep.

I think the education system has it mixed up, I think the nap time school be built into the high school day, not the elementary school day. Nap time in high school would be beneficial to the students, being able to catch up on their sleep, and the teachers as well. Teachers always complain about things needed to be graded, give us nap time and you’ll have more time to grade papers.

We should require all high school to have at least a 45 minute “nap time” during the school day. I don’t think any student would oppose to this idea!