Logos

Being in high school is a challenge as it is. There are hundreds of expectations to live up to. We are all in the stages of our life’s where we all have an idea of what we want, but have no idea how to get it. We are stuck between adolescences and adulthood; too old to not have responsibilities, but too young to be trusted with certain privileges. This is only the social part of school, there is also the academic part. Classes start at 7:30 only to end at 2:15. Then there is another task to be dealt with after that….. homework.

 Excluding homework there are sports, clubs and just millions of other things that disallow people like me to ever imagine of having an actual social life. In between our busy work day at school we are tested multiple times on the same information that will most likely never be used in the future. Slacking is never an option, if you slack once, it may seem as if your whole world is tumbling over. One overlooked mistake on a test could cost you your grade for the entire semester.

As we grow up, we realize that the one mistake we made on that one important test was never really that important. That one test that everyone seemed to fail will not matter once you turn 50 and are praying for your retirement pay check to come 15 years sooner. One small test in our entire life will most likely not affect us for the rest of our life’s. But something that will actually affect us in the long run is the amount of sleep we get.

Looking back onto kindergarten days, we were all taught that nap time was the most important part of the day. We were taught that sleeping was important for all children to grow up to be strong and smart.  Any 4 year old would easily disagree that taking nap in the middle of the day was not necessary, and that it never helped them grow nor helped them learn better. But somehow it was enforced into every schedule every day. But who were we to know? We were just kids.

Maybe teachers and parents had some logic to nap time.  What if that one mistake that you made on that important test could have been fixed with a 15 minute nap.  It worked in kindergarten, why wouldn't it work now? Having a nap in school would allow students to regain energy to full understand the information being taught at us and allow us to gain energy to function properly throughout the day.