Sleep: Are EHS Students Getting Enough?

Story by Hannah Hazeldine »

Sleep is a very important thing in a person’s daily routine. While sleep requirements vary from person to person, to properly function, your body needs 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night to operate at its best.

As the school year continues, many students are faced with constantly-changing sleeping schedules. Depending on their day, some students can get their homework and extra activities done in time to get to bed early. Some have no choice but to power through the late night to get things done.

Freshman Justin Fawcett says that he usually goes to bed around 11 and gets around 7 hours of sleep. Before bed, what he does varies.

“I’m usually reading or on my phone or something before bed,” Fawcett said.

Sophomore Emily Spurling normally ends her night with doing homework or watching Netflix till around 10:30 or 11. Waking up at 6:30 the next morning usually gives her close to 7.5 hours of sleep. Another sophomore, Kaylee Neis, goes to bed around 11 as well.

“I usually go to bed around 11 unless I have homework and I get 8 hours of sleep on a good night,” Neis said.

For those of you who stay up late finishing your homework, Korbin Hiebert, Brittan Manley and Keagan Shockley can relate.

“It depends.” said Korbin Hiebert. “If I have homework I am doing that before I go to bed and since I get homework everyday, I go to bed between 11 or 12. And I wake up around 7 so I get about 7-8 hours of sleep.”

Sophomore Brittan Manly is a dedicated student who stays up however late she needs to to get all of her homework done. Manley can normally get around 6 to 7 hours of sleep, waking up at about 7.

“I’m always doing homework before bed,” Manley said, “It’s not that I put it off, it’s just that I get so many assignments that it takes up all my time after school.”

Sophomore Keagan Shockley is in the same boat. Battling practice after school can be hard to time manage, along with the homework that follows.

“Usually I get about 6.5 to 7 hours of sleep,” Shockley said, “I go to bed around 12:15 a.m., sometimes even around 1, depending on how much homework I have or if I have practice.”

Sleep is vitally important for your body to perform better on memory tasks. It’s crucial that students, and teachers, get the most sleep possible to properly function for their upcoming day. Hopefully winter break provided time to catch up on your sleep.