It is no secret that high school students are exhausted from lack of sleep. The repetitive excuses pile up from extracurricular activities to homework, but how valid are they? According to the National Sleep Foundation, teenagers from ages 14 to 18 should be getting 8-10 hours of sleep every night. A survey was conducted around Baldwin High School to ask kids about their sleep and here is what was found.

Students at BHS all have different sleep schedules, but the average time most kids try to get to bed is about 10:00-10:30 p.m.

“I usually go to bed around 10:30, but sometimes I am up late doing homework,” freshman Lily Beach said.

Homework is the word dreaded by just about every student across the globe. And all-nighters are nothing new to high schoolers. Homework can bombard a student’s sleep schedule. Many students claim that they have too much homework for how long they go to school. There are also extracurriculars, sports, and after-school activities.

“I’m usually up at 11:00 doing homework just about every night,” junior Sydney Cheek said.

If each student in Baldwin decided to go to bed at 10:30p.m. and get up at at a given time of 6:30a.m., they would get 8 hours of sleep, which is the bare minimum for the amount of sleep kids need to have a productive day.

If the school set a later school starting time, that would only promote kids to stay up later. A student gave a better alternative, which resulted in less homework.

“I think that if our time at school is as effective as it should be, we should not have as much homework as we do. It has not been proven that homework benefits our grades and understanding for the subject,” an anonymous student said.