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Sleepers are not winners
Aaron Sperling
PLEASE NOTE: THE OPINIONS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE OF A JOKING NATURE, SO DO NOT TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY..OR I WILL BEAT YOU. JK!!!!
School is a sensitive subject to many. Everybody has, will, or is going to it to become enriched with knowledge. Yet there are trends which show that with larger loads of homework and less time to do it, along with a high percent of public schools across the country opening well before the rising of the sun; many students find it a great burden to stay awake for the entire school day. The result of this make-up sleep time is that students are not learning the new material needed to complete the many hours of previously mentioned homework. When a student cannot stay awake in school or comprehend material, grades for said student go down. Thus, it becomes more of a challenge for said student to be accepted into a college.
College; let me touch on this subject for a moment, as it does relate back to the issue of sleep. When a student is in middle school or earlier, they live a carefree, fun life. The minute that this student first steps through the high school doors, his or her personal life is over. From day one in any public or private high school, the importance of the SAT’s (and getting into college in general) is stressed to an almost nauseating level. As a result of this, students all across the country spend countless hours a night (usually near the end of their sophomore year in high school, or when they enter their junior year) studying and filling their brains with information that once they enter college, will become useless to them. This means, in laymen’s terms, that the students get even less sleep during their sophomore and junior year’s than they would have in their freshman year.
My proposition, which I hope will help to end this rising trend, is not one to budget extra time onto certain school days so that students can sleep more, or take extra days off. I believe the best way to end students sleeping in class is to bring corporal punishment back into the school system. I mean, hey, why not? It worked very well when it was instituted as far back as the public school system has been around. When kids would used to talk to each other, or fall asleep in class, the teacher would take out a ruler (or maybe his or her belt) and slap the student around a little bit to discipline them. Should my theory be put into use again, it is my personal belief that students will not fall asleep in class anymore, mainly out of fear.
An example of how well this theory works can be found when studying dogs and electric fences. Dogs are animals which like to be free. If you let a dog out of a door, it will run, and it will run fast. If you were to put up an electric fence, which shocks the animal every time it tries to cross it, the dog will slowly learn to respect and fear the boundaries put upon it. This is true to the system of corporal punishment in schools. If a student lowers his or her head onto a desk, the neck attached to that head will be whacked with a cane; causing that head to shoot up. The student who tries to sleep will learn that there is no winning in trying to sleep in class, and thus will not try and fall asleep in class anymore, allowing him or her to comprehend the new material.
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