GO AWAY! It’s not even dawn!!!
When mama was in high school, she had to get up at the crack of dawn and get to school by 7:45, ready to think.
Not easy for a teen-ager, according to statistics and studies recorded over a year about the difficulties kids have at a certain age with getting up early. I know what they mean…
And a very enterprising young woman in Missouri started movement to change the clocks at high school to let kids sleep one more hour before classes begin. Jilly Dos Santos who lost her mother at nine and is the youngest of seven children (also teaching French to toddlers, working at a pizza place, with straight A’s in French, Spanish and LATIN!) has been successful in getting schools in Missouri to start later; teens’ melatonin kicks in later at night, around 11pm, and so they tend to stay up later than other anthros and get less sleep on school nights. Because of this change in the rules, kids’ grades have improved, car crashes have diminished and kids’ general performance in many other areas is on the mend.
What a wonderful young woman you are, Jilly. Maybe you could come visit us and talk mama into the fact that I’m still a teen and I need to wake up later, too.
Every day…
Whew…Another hour or two (or three or four) before Rat Class and Mousematics 101.
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