It follows a paper, published in 2014, in which he noted that, when children are around ten, their biological wake-up time is about 6.30am; at 16, this rises to 8am; and, at 18, someone you may think of as a lazy teenager actually has a natural waking hour of 9am. The conventional school starting time works for 10-year-olds but not 16- to 18-year-olds. For the older teenagers, it might be more sensible to start the school day at 11am or even later. “A 7am alarm call for older adolescents,” Kelley and his colleagues pointed out in the paper, “is the equivalent of a 4.30am start for a teacher in their 50s.”
What does Kelley state about people’s natural wake-up times?
10-year-olds naturally wake up earlier than 18-year-olds 18-year-olds naturally wake up earlier than 10-year-olds Both children and teenagers would benefit from a school day that starts at 11am or later People’s natural wake-up times depends on the time they go to be