Students are sleeping at school instead of at home. In the corners of the commons and during boring classes the head falls down on the table and the eyes close.
The reasons students sleep during school is that they are tired or the class is boring, said freshman Mara Benowitz and Eva Peterson, sophomore. Peterson naps once or twice a week and Benowitz once a quarter. The interesting part is that Benowitz sleeps 6 hours a night and Peterson 8-9 hours.
Arthur French sees students sleeping in the commons more in the winter but nobody during his class. “I think the main reason for that is so many activities. The students go home too late and don’t have enough sleep or they have recreational activities going on,” said French.
French doesn’t think homework is a prevailing cause for lack of sleep. “I don’t give too much of homework, but we need to give homework, because if we don’t the students will fail in the university. The students will have unrealistic expectations outside of high school,” said French