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David Chandler, 17, just began his senior year at an academically competitive high school in suburban Maryland. A member of the football team for the second year in a row, he’s caught in the struggle that plagues thousands of today’s teenagers: keeping up with the demands of schoolwork (ftieled by worries about getting into a good college next fall), participating in extracurricular activities and earning money to maintain a car and help pay for college.
The casualty of David’s IU11 social and academic schedule is sleep. On school days he leaves home by 7:10 a.m. in order to secure a parking spot in the school lot and returns 11 or 12 hours later — hungry, exhausted and dirty from football practice.
After a shower and dinner, he tackles his homework, which is compounded by the extra courses he’s taking to get an academic edge on the competition. By the time his weary head hits the pillow, it’s between midnight and 1 a.m.
On weekends, instead of catching up on lost sleep, David reports to football practice at 9 a.m. Saturday, works afternoons as a soccer referee and socializes with friends on Friday and Saturday nights.
As a result of this hectic schedule, he never gets more than six hours of sleep — which is about three hours less than he needs, according to sleep experts.
David’s lifestyle is not unusual among today’s young people, as Jo Blackman, dean of humanities at a state-of-the-art
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