Five days a week highschool students have to get up early, tired, and make it to school on time. From all the work done the night before, students find themselves losing hours of sleep and waking up tired. There are several reasons for this problem. First, teachers assign work to do at home and these assignments can add up to a lot of work and time being consumed. Second, students may be procrastinating and doing things such as social media or texting. Third, after school activities such as sports and clubs take up a lot o the day. These things can slow work down and cause students to go to sleep at late hours.

Homework can be a grueling task, especially when there is a lot of it. Frequently, teachers will assign long tasks that take up the majority of after school hours, making students stay up late. Students taking higher level courses are particularly victim to higher work loads. These assignments can take long complete and in many cases difficult and challenging. Extracurricular activities also take up time and are physically fatiguing. Practices after school usually last for two to two and a half hours and games can be even longer. After coming home tired, students have other things preventing them from doing homework right away. This includes showering, resting, and eating. By the time this is all finished there is little time before it's starts getting late.

Losing sleep can be harmful. In general, a high school student needs seven to nine hours of sleep every night. However, for some students, this is rarely achieved during the school week because of the previously stated reasons. An overwhelming drive to sleep replaces any chance of alertness, memory, or understanding in students. No matter how fun or interesting the class might be, students can’t retain information when they are struggling to keep their eyes open during class. This lack of concentration causes them to have a poor understanding of the subject top. Without understanding the material being taught, students can find themselves getting bad grades and doing worse on tests quizzes. Going to sleep late multiple nights in a row can also create new sleeping habits which breaks normal sleep routines and forces you to go to sleep when homework is done and not when you choose to. In conclusion, sleep is important for not only high school students, but everyday workers as well.