Sleepy Teens, Early Classes: Your Comments
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Last week, we talked about the [A]conflict[/A] between sleepy [A]teenagers[/A] and early morning classes. Many people commented on our website and Facebook page.
For example, Damla Ece in Turkey wrote: I agree with the idea of starting lessons later so teenagers can feel better in the morning. But sleeping more than seven hours can be [A]wasting[/A] time for students.
Tran in Vietnam disagreed: I think teenagers, on the [A]average[/A], need eight to ten hours of sleep everyday. It's useless trying to force them to concentrate while they can't [A]concentrate[/A].
Enilton Neymakes in Brazil goes to sleep late and wakes up in the [A]afternoon[/A]. That's my life, but at least I am studying.
Afshin Heydari from Tehran says schools should start early to avoid heavy traffic later in the morning. And Suze from Jordan wrote: When I was a teenager, I enjoyed taking my courses as early as possible. That way I could find a long time in the day to do my own [A]activities[/A].
But Azra from Kyrgyzstan said the[A] reason[/A] schools start early there is a lack of classrooms.
Omid in Afghanistan calls teenagers the destiny makers of a society. So they must be more alert and active in order to be more [A]successful[/A].
And Joruji in Japan wrote: When I was a teenager, I used to get up before six to go to school, which was far from home, and I don't remember having [A]problems[/A]. I think nowadays the Internet, TV games and cell phones make teens go to sleep later.
Thirty-year-old Kika in Spain says: In my [A]opinion[/A], young people are very lazy.
But Dennis Jin disagrees: For high school students in China, we must reach class at six-twenty in the morning and be back home usually at ten in the evening. Then we'll have some extra [A]schoolwork[/A] to do. Can you imagine how long could we sleep every day?
Teenagers are not the only ones who [A]suffer[/A]. Kathy in Canada wrote: My daughter likes complaining about everything in the morning, and I know that this is from lack of sleep. I wish schools should [A]change[/A] their start time to eight-thirty or nine a.m.
Vidara Mom, a Cambodian living in New Zealand, says school starts at nine and finishes at three p.m. Therefore the students have [A]heaps[/A] of times to [A]interact[/A] and play before they go home.
Wibi Sebastian from Indonesia wishes school started at seven-thirty instead of seven. But one thing, don't forget to eat [A]breakfast[/A]!
And Naima Star in Libya wrote: Getting up so early in the morning and leaving the warm bed is so difficult, [A]especially[/A] in the cold weather. It reminds me of that old song: "It's nice to get up in the morning, but it's nicer to stay in bed."
