Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Letter: Students won’t get more sleep

I read the Sun's Feb. 12 article, "Sleepyheads: New plan for high school schedule could give teens extra time at home." Many times in my 58 years on this planet have I heard the same story -- "Let's cut off the bottom of the blanket and sew it back on top!"

The trouble is no matter how we shift the hands of the clock (daylight savings versus standard time), it still takes 24 hours for one revolution of the earth about its axis! Most of the high school students will just stay up an hour later and be just as tired under the new schedule as they were under the old schedule. I remember cheating my bedtime during my high school years (1958-1962) and paying the price the next day!

DOUG GARCIA

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