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    Teenagers are losing sleep due to excessive homework and extracurricular commitments, according to the document. Surveys in the US and Singapore find that many teenagers report feeling tired during the day because they have insufficient time to fit in schoolwork, activities, and the recommended hours of sleep. The document cites a 2004 US study where 60% of children ages 4-17 said they felt tired during the day in the past year, and a quarter complained of frequent daytime tiredness. Similar issues are found in competitive education systems like Singapore's, where students often need to study 4-5 hours per day on top of school, leaving little time for sleep if they also have extracurricular activities. This lack of sleep is found

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    Teenagers are losing sleep due to excessive homework and extracurricular commitments, according to the document. Surveys in the US and Singapore find that many teenagers report feeling tired during the day because they have insufficient time to fit in schoolwork, activities, and the recommended hours of sleep. The document cites a 2004 US study where 60% of children ages 4-17 said they felt tired during the day in the past year, and a quarter complained of frequent daytime tiredness. Similar issues are found in competitive education systems like Singapore's, where students often need to study 4-5 hours per day on top of school, leaving little time for sleep if they also have extracurricular activities. This lack of sleep is found

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    Teenagers are losing sleep due to excessive homework and extracurricular commitments, according to the document. Surveys in the US and Singapore find that many teenagers report feeling tired during the day because they have insufficient time to fit in schoolwork, activities, and the recommended hours of sleep. The document cites a 2004 US study where 60% of children ages 4-17 said they felt tired during the day in the past year, and a quarter complained of frequent daytime tiredness. Similar issues are found in competitive education systems like Singapore's, where students often need to study 4-5 hours per day on top of school, leaving little time for sleep if they also have extracurricular activities. This lack of sleep is found

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    Claim: Teenagers losing sleep due to too much homework and

    commitments outside of school

    Nowadays, teenagers and being deprived of sleep. This is due to lack of time planning and because
    of the amount of homework teenagers and given in school. Commitments such as sports related
    activities do not help them either. This is because, they are restricted to the amount of time they
    have in a single day and with that amount of time, they have to fit in all their school work, sports
    related activities and school too which takes up almost half of the day already. This leads to
    teenagers cutting their amount of sleep time to fit in all these commitments leading to undesirable
    effects such as being tired in the day or getting frequent migranes.

    In America this problem already is a large issue according to the 2004 poll by the national
    sleep foundation. 2004 poll by the National Sleep Foundation . Over in America, there has
    been complains about not getting enough sleep because of work and that students are cutting
    down their amount of sleep time. According to the Sleep Foundation's survey, 60% of
    children ages 4-17 years complained of feeling tired during the day during the past year.
    Almost one out of every four students complained of frequently being tired during the day
    often. Parents are noticing how sleepy their kids are too. In the survey, one out of every four
    parents said they would approve of setting later school hours.

    This problem isn’t just happening in America but in many other countries including
    Singapore. In Singapore, the education system is very competitive and for a student to do
    well, he/she must at least put in 4-5 hour of studying each day on top of school hours. This
    would make it increasingly challenging for them if they have cca’s which is compulsory in
    many schools. Therefore, statistics show that teenagers and sleeping lesser hours. The
    recently published Philips Index for Health and Well-being report, a research conducted
    across 23 countries including Singapore, found that 35 per cent of people feel they are not
    getting enough sleep, impacting their physical and mental health.

    Benjamin sim

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