for almost all student athletes time is
a massive issue between school sports
and homework there’s just not enough
time in the day personally I have a hard
time trying to fit everything into my
day I wake up at 6:45 in the morning and
get ready for school for 30 minutes at
7:15 I go to school for seven hours
after school it’s football practice
football practices for three hours and
we leave about at about 6:10 after I get
home I eat dinner and do my homework and
that takes me to 10:30 because most of
the time I’ve four hours of homework
every night after my homework I go and
I’m hungry so I get a snack this takes
me to eleven then brushing my teeth
taking a shower and making sure I’m a
hundred percent ready for the next day
normally takes me to midnight at this
point it’s impossible to get the nine
and a half hours of sleep that most
professionals recommend is needed to
stay healthy in high school this is the
problem that almost all high school
athletes face every day no matter what
sport it is it consumes time this time
that is consumed can cause massive
amounts of stress towards both school
and sports for these athletes
students trying to make the sports teams
while also studying for tests and trying
to make good grades causes them to
stress personally I haven’t hung out
with any friends during school days I
feel as if I can’t go to the movies with
my family go to dinner with my family I
feel as if I can’t even tell my mom how
my day one because I don’t have enough
time this problem does not just consist
with high school athletes either for
those students that don’t play a high
school sport they probably still do
something any extra extracurricular
activity or passion that you pursue
takes up valuable time in your day
football is a huge part of my life my
dad’s a coach and all three of his boys
play I wish I could watch my younger
brother play freshman football Thursday
nights but I can’t
he plays right after the JV but in the
time that it would take me to watch my
brother play a game
I just can’t because I have to be doing
homework Friday is undeniably the best
day for all students because it means
the weekend the weekend is great there’s
no homework oh wait yeah there is even
on the two days that bring joy into
every student’s lives there’s still an
issue with time my Friday night ends
with my varsity game in some faraway
town probably about two hours away after
the game we drive back and it’s probably
close to midnight by the time we get
back to the high school at this point I
sleep at a friend’s house after eating
dinner and getting ready for bed it’s
normally around one or two o’clock in
the morning and four hours later we have
to wake up again and come back to the
high school for football film review and
breakfast this is a problem that many
high school athletes have so now that
you know that there’s an issue with
students not having enough time in their
day what like what is this cause what is
the issue with this studies done by
Stanford and Wisconsin University found
that not only do students have on
average four hours of homework every
night but that only 15% of students get
more than seven hours of sleep at night
another study done by the kayuu
University in Belgium found that
students that got an extra hour of sleep
the night before did 10% better on an
exam than students that get less than
seven hours of sleep this same test
concluded that students that got an
extra hour of sleep did another 10%
better on the same exam so how do we fix
this problem of not having enough time
in our day for student athletes is it
with sports school or the homework that
were given it could be with school if we
took 15 minutes off every period that’s
an extra hour that students would have
that could potentially be used to sleep
as I’ve proven earlier this extra hour
could also be accounted for another 10%
on a student’s exam what about homework
do students really need four hours of
homework every night with three hours of
homework
not be enough to get done which students
need to get done and then
extracurricular activities even when
football seasons not on its track season
football goes all summer and all fall
and track starts right up at the
beginning of winter they even overlap
with each other track goes all winter
and all spring and even overlaps with
football lifting so there’s never a
point in the year that I’m not playing a
sport so could something change with
these extracurricular activities could
we button down on the time make it a
little bit less so that students could
have less stress this is a real issue
that needs to be addressed for high
school athletes to give them more time
in their day and relieve their stress
[Applause]
a massive issue between school sports
and homework there’s just not enough
time in the day personally I have a hard
time trying to fit everything into my
day I wake up at 6:45 in the morning and
get ready for school for 30 minutes at
7:15 I go to school for seven hours
after school it’s football practice
football practices for three hours and
we leave about at about 6:10 after I get
home I eat dinner and do my homework and
that takes me to 10:30 because most of
the time I’ve four hours of homework
every night after my homework I go and
I’m hungry so I get a snack this takes
me to eleven then brushing my teeth
taking a shower and making sure I’m a
hundred percent ready for the next day
normally takes me to midnight at this
point it’s impossible to get the nine
and a half hours of sleep that most
professionals recommend is needed to
stay healthy in high school this is the
problem that almost all high school
athletes face every day no matter what
sport it is it consumes time this time
that is consumed can cause massive
amounts of stress towards both school
and sports for these athletes
students trying to make the sports teams
while also studying for tests and trying
to make good grades causes them to
stress personally I haven’t hung out
with any friends during school days I
feel as if I can’t go to the movies with
my family go to dinner with my family I
feel as if I can’t even tell my mom how
my day one because I don’t have enough
time this problem does not just consist
with high school athletes either for
those students that don’t play a high
school sport they probably still do
something any extra extracurricular
activity or passion that you pursue
takes up valuable time in your day
football is a huge part of my life my
dad’s a coach and all three of his boys
play I wish I could watch my younger
brother play freshman football Thursday
nights but I can’t
he plays right after the JV but in the
time that it would take me to watch my
brother play a game
I just can’t because I have to be doing
homework Friday is undeniably the best
day for all students because it means
the weekend the weekend is great there’s
no homework oh wait yeah there is even
on the two days that bring joy into
every student’s lives there’s still an
issue with time my Friday night ends
with my varsity game in some faraway
town probably about two hours away after
the game we drive back and it’s probably
close to midnight by the time we get
back to the high school at this point I
sleep at a friend’s house after eating
dinner and getting ready for bed it’s
normally around one or two o’clock in
the morning and four hours later we have
to wake up again and come back to the
high school for football film review and
breakfast this is a problem that many
high school athletes have so now that
you know that there’s an issue with
students not having enough time in their
day what like what is this cause what is
the issue with this studies done by
Stanford and Wisconsin University found
that not only do students have on
average four hours of homework every
night but that only 15% of students get
more than seven hours of sleep at night
another study done by the kayuu
University in Belgium found that
students that got an extra hour of sleep
the night before did 10% better on an
exam than students that get less than
seven hours of sleep this same test
concluded that students that got an
extra hour of sleep did another 10%
better on the same exam so how do we fix
this problem of not having enough time
in our day for student athletes is it
with sports school or the homework that
were given it could be with school if we
took 15 minutes off every period that’s
an extra hour that students would have
that could potentially be used to sleep
as I’ve proven earlier this extra hour
could also be accounted for another 10%
on a student’s exam what about homework
do students really need four hours of
homework every night with three hours of
homework
not be enough to get done which students
need to get done and then
extracurricular activities even when
football seasons not on its track season
football goes all summer and all fall
and track starts right up at the
beginning of winter they even overlap
with each other track goes all winter
and all spring and even overlaps with
football lifting so there’s never a
point in the year that I’m not playing a
sport so could something change with
these extracurricular activities could
we button down on the time make it a
little bit less so that students could
have less stress this is a real issue
that needs to be addressed for high
school athletes to give them more time
in their day and relieve their stress
[Applause]
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