[ti:Sleepy Teens, Early Classes, Your Comments]
[ar:Jim Tedder]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English 
[00:02.58]Education Report.
[00:04.63]Last week, we talked about 
[00:07.21]the conflict between 
[00:08.49]sleepy teenagers 
[00:09.73]and early morning classes. 
[00:12.78]Many people commented 
[00:14.59]on our website and Facebook page.
[00:17.64]For example, Damla Ece 
[00:21.18]in Turkey wrote:
[00:22.49]I agree with the idea 
[00:24.29]of starting lessons later 
[00:26.47]so teenagers can feel better 
[00:28.83]in the morning. 
[00:29.89]But sleeping more than 
[00:31.76]seven hours can be 
[00:33.19]wasting time for students.
[00:35.55]Tran in Vietnam disagreed: 
[00:38.35]I think teenagers, 
[00:40.59]on the average, 
[00:41.83]need eight to ten hours 
[00:43.88]of sleep everyday. 
[00:45.50]It's useless trying 
[00:47.63]to force them to concentrate 
[00:49.19]while they can't concentrate.
[00:51.63]Enilton Neymakes in Brazil 
[00:55.98]goes to sleep late and wakes up 
[00:58.78]in the afternoon. 
[01:00.34]That's my life, 
[01:01.52]but at least I am studying.
[01:03.45]Afshin Heydari from Tehran says 
[01:07.92]schools should start early 
[01:10.35]to avoid heavy traffic later 
[01:12.78]in the morning. 
[01:13.90]And Suze from Jordan wrote: 
[01:16.76]When I was a teenager, 
[01:18.50]I enjoyed taking my courses 
[01:20.74]as early as possible. 
[01:22.98]That way I could find 
[01:24.72]a long time in the day 
[01:26.28]to do my own activities.
[01:29.20]But Azra from Kyrgyzstan said 
[01:32.82]the reason schools start early 
[01:35.25]there is a lack of classrooms.
[01:37.55]Omid in Afghanistan calls 
[01:40.86]teenagers the destiny 
[01:43.10]makers of a society. 
[01:44.84]So they must be more alert 
[01:47.33]and active in order to 
[01:49.14]be more successful.
[01:51.68]And Joruji in Japan wrote: 
[01:54.42]When I was a teenager, 
[01:56.16]I used to get up before six 
[01:58.65]to go to school, 
[02:00.39]which was far from home, 
[02:02.26]and I don't remember 
[02:03.81]having problems. 
[02:04.81]I think nowadays the Internet, 
[02:07.24]TV games and cell phones 
[02:10.16]make teens go to sleep later.
[02:13.21]Thirty-year-old Kika 
[02:15.82]in Spain says: In my opinion, 
[02:18.56]young people are very lazy.
[02:21.04]But Dennis Jin disagrees: 
[02:24.09]For high school students in China, 
[02:27.22]we must reach class at six-twenty 
[02:30.34]in the morning and be back home 
[02:32.46]usually at ten in the evening. 
[02:34.82]Then we'll have some 
[02:36.63]extra schoolwork to do. 
[02:38.12]Can you imagine how long 
[02:40.17]could we sleep every day?
[02:41.79]Teenagers are not the only ones 
[02:45.46]who suffer. 
[02:46.89]Kathy in Canada wrote: 
[02:49.19]My daughter likes complaining 
[02:51.62]about everything in the morning, 
[02:53.44]and I know that this 
[02:55.55]is from lack of sleep. 
[02:57.04]I wish schools should change 
[02:59.78]their start time 
[03:00.96]to eight-thirty or nine a.m.
[03:03.45]Vidara Mom, a Cambodian living 
[03:07.56]in New Zealand, says 
[03:08.92]school starts at nine and finishes 
[03:11.97]at three p.m. 
[03:13.28]Therefore the students 
[03:15.39]have heaps of times to interact 
[03:17.82]and play before they go home.
[03:20.68]Wibi Sebastian from Indonesia 
[03:24.54]wishes school started 
[03:26.28]at seven-thirty instead of seven. 
[03:28.89]But one thing, don't 
[03:31.32]forget to eat breakfast!
[03:32.81]And Naima Star in Libya wrote: 
[03:36.11]Getting up so early in the morning 
[03:38.22]and leaving the warm bed 
[03:40.29]is so difficult, 
[03:41.60]especially in the cold weather. 
[03:43.71]It reminds me of that old song: 
[03:46.47]"It's nice to get up 
[03:48.33]in the morning, 
[03:49.26]but it's nicer to stay in bed."
[03:52.02]And that's the VOA Special English 
[03:55.00]Education Report. 
[03:56.50]I'm Jim Tedder.