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high school in Charleston, W.Va., recently testified to the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research.
“Our school program is very tough academically,” Ms. Blackman said. “It’s tough competition, there are high expectations...As a result we find out there’s a high stress level. They have quite a bit of homework, and if they do community service activities or if they’re in extracurricular activities, then our students really don’t have time for (adequate sleep)...’’
“Adolescents in the United States today have increasingly more options and opportunities for activities that fill their days (and much of their nights),” says leading adolescent sleep expert Dr. Mary Carskadon, director of chronobiology at E. P. Bradley Hospital in East Providence, R.I., and professor in the Department of, Psychology and Human Behavior at Brown University.
Despite full schedules, mqre teens also feel obliged to have jobs in order to fill the role of the consumer that is projected onto them by the media, Dr. Carskadon says.
In a study she conducted of 3,000 Rhode Island high school students, nearly 30 percent reported working 20 or more houre per week during the school year.
Author Juliet Schor, in her book The Overworked American, cites a New Hampshire study that showed that 86 percent of the state’s 10th-to-12th graders have jobs, and 45 percent of them work more than 20 hours a week.
80.3%