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Last week, we talked about the conflict between
sleepy teenagers and early morning classes. Many
people commented on our website and Facebook page.
For example, Damla Ece in Turkey wrote: I agree with
the idea of starting lessons later so teenagers can
feel better in the morning. But sleeping more than
seven hours can be wasting time for students. Tran
in Vietnam disagreed: I think teenagers, on the
average, need eight to ten hours of sleep everyday.
It's useless trying to force them to concentrate
while they can't concentrate.Enilton Neymakes in
Brazil goes to sleep late and wakes up in the
afternoon and wrote: That's my life, but at least I
am studying. Afshin Heydari from Tehran says schools
should start early to avoid heavy traffic later in
the morning. And Suze from Jordan wrote: When I was
a teenager, I enjoyed taking my courses as early as
possible. That way I could find a long time in the
day to do my own activities.But Azra from Kyrgyzstan
said the reason schools start early there is a lack
of classrooms. Omid in Afghanistan calls teenagers
the destiny-makers of a society. So they must be
more alert and active in order to be more
successful.And Joruji in Japan wrote: When I was a
teenager, I used to get up before six to go to
school, which was far from home, and I don't
remember having problems. I think nowadays the
Internet, TV games and cell phones make teens go to
sleep later.Thirty-year-old Kika in Spain says: In
my opinion, young people are very lazy.But Dennis
Jin disagrees: He says for high school students in
China, we must reach class at six-twenty in the
morning and be back home usually at ten in the
evening. Then we'll have some extra schoolwork to
do. Teenagers are not the only ones who suffer.
Kathy in Canada wrote: My daughter likes complaining
about everything in the morning, and I know that
this is from lack of sleep. I wish schools should
change their start time to eight-thirty or nine a.m.
Vidara Mom, a Cambodian living in New Zealand, says
school starts at nine and finishes at three p.m.
Therefore the students have heaps of time to
interact and play before they go home. Wibi
Sebastian from Indonesia wishes school started at
seven-thirty instead of seven but tells students
don't forget to eat breakfast! For VOA Special
English I'm Alex Villarreal.
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