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Why school should start later for teens? [QUESTIONS OF VALUES]

Negative impacts of sleep loss

 Waking the teenagers up hours before their biological clock tells them they are ready, is literally
robbing them of their dreams
 Sleep most associated with learning, memory consolidation and emotional processing
 Leads to sleep deprivation which is epidemic in America (only one in ten gets 8 hours of sleep)
 Eight hours of sleep is just the minimum requirement, is kind of like getting a C on your report
card
 Major medical organizations recommend that middle and high school start no earlier than
8.30am
 Around the time of puberty, teenagers experience a delay in their biological clock
 Teenagers’ bodies wait to start releasing melatonin until around 11pm, which is two hours later
than what we see in adults or younger children
 Waking a teen up at 6am is biological equivalent of waking an adult up at 4am which making
them functionally useless, irritable
 Unpleasant characteristics of teenagers – moodiness, irritability, laziness, depression are
products of chronic sleep loss
 To battle with sleep deprivation, teenagers tend to compensate large quantities of caffeine
 Affects the brain development which is responsible for higher order thinking in adolescence
stage
 They cannot concentrate, their attention plummets, and many will even show behavioral signs
that mimic ADHD
 Contributing to many mental health problems including substance use, depression and suicide
 Teens with sleep problems are 55% more likely to have used alcohol in the past month in LA
 It is found that for each hour of lost sleep, there was a 38% increase in feeling sad or hopeless
 Increase of physical health includes obesity, heart attack and diabetes
 Study has shown getting 5 hours or less of sleep per night is equivalent of driving with a blood
alcohol content above the legal limit

Benefits of later start time

 Get enough sleep as their wake-up time extended

 School absences dropped by 25% in one district
 Less likely to drop out
 Do better academically
 Standardized test scores in Math and Reading go up by 2 – 3% points
 Mental and physical health increase
 Family is happier
 Criminal cases decrease

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Ocean Pollution [QUESTIONS OF POLICY]

Importance of ocean

 72% of the Earth’s surface is covered by the saltwater seas and oceans
 Over half of the oxygen that is in the Earth’s atmosphere is produced by plants and
microorganisms that live in the oceans
 97% of the water available to us on Earth is contained in the oceans
 Vital in sustain life in the almost 9 million species that call ocean their homes

How oceans are in danger

 Climate change is causing glacier to melt which changes water temperature and water levels
 Over fishing is damaging fish population and causing fish species to be threatened
 Habitat destruction is endangering both planet and fish species causing fish migration and the
destruction of coral reefs
 It is almost impossible to stop all sources of pollution as the oceans are too massive
 According to National Geographic, 88% of ocean water on this planet is polluted with garbage
 Chemical pollution causes horrible damage when introduced in large quantities like nitrogen in
plant fertilizers
 Fertilizers produce massive algae blooms which their decomposition will use all the oxygen in
the water which cause almost all fish and plant life to die

Solutions

 It does not take huge effort for people to solve this problem
 Simple things such as recycling as much household garbage as possible mainly plastics
 Take all your trash with you when you go to beach
 Without the ocean, life on Earth would not possible to survive as he provides as much resources
to human includes food and oxygen
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Bullying [QUESTIONS OF FACTS]

Why are people bullied and why people bully

 The way they look, they way they dress, the way they act, their religious status
 Exp: physical appearances include wearing glasses, overweight, skin colour
 Bullies are mostly insecure, maybe run from home,
 Or they are influenced by family members as they watch violence at home
 Influenced by video games, learned to abuse others
 The victims make the bullies feel that they are better as the victims stay quiet and do the things
they are supposed to do

How does bullying affect the victims

 Bullying affects everyone including the witness as they cannot do anything about it
 Mental health is very affected
 Many people become ashamed and they live their life in fear, become very depressed, and even
decide to end their life by suicide
 Society effects to the bullies – involve in gangs, drugs

What can we do to prevent bully

 Discipline your children like sending them to camp to get their minds right
 Look up for organization to empower these young people who are victims
 Make sure the people surrounding us are in safe environment, protects them from bully cases