{"id":505989,"date":"2026-10-24T01:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505989\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T01:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:22:14","slug":"word-on-the-street-school-causes-sleep-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505989\/","title":{"rendered":"Word on the street: School causes sleep deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst academic workloads and extracurriculars, it&#8217;s no suprise that more sleep is desired across all grades. Instead of accepting that we live in a world where a healthy amount of sleep is unachievable, we must work to incorporate the prioritization of sleep into school and workplaces. It has become socially acceptable for people to go through day-to-day life running on less sleep than is healthy. However, the culture cycle of sleep deprivation should not be normalized, as it has so many more negative impacts than feeling tired. These effects are especially felt among BHS students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it would be nice to get a bit more (sleep), but I just have a lot of stuff to do with school and cross country,\u201d Tommy Fisher, a Berkeley High School freshman, said. He sleeps for around eight hours each night, but on weekends he sleeps for an hour and a half longer. He seemed resigned to the fact that more sleep simply couldn\u2019t happen right now with such a busy schedule. Tommy also shared that without adequate sleep, he feels like he \u201ccan\u2019t focus as much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of the day during school, I&#8217;m always really tired, and after school, when I have soccer practice late at night, I&#8217;m also really tired and don&#8217;t have a lot of energy,\u201d said Ella Cody, a BHS sophomore. \u201cIf I got more sleep, I&#8217;d probably have more energy and be able to focus in my classes better.\u201d She gets about 7 \u00bd to 8 hours of sleep each night, but would be happier with more.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sleeping-wos-(ella-cody)---asaja-rombe-hall.jpg\" class=\"mx-auto align-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ella Cody\n    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI usually get a good amount of sleep so that I&#8217;m not too tired and I can like actually get through the day,\u201d Eleanor Heslop, a BHS junior, said, \u201cOn days where I have a lot of extracurriculars, I&#8217;m way more tired, and I have to go to bed earlier because I&#8217;m so tired \u2026 (but) I have to go to bed later to do my homework. So it&#8217;s a toxic cycle.\u201d Last night Heslop got less than seven hours of sleep due to an excess of schoolwork and was not satisfied with that amount of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sleeping-wos-(eleanor-heslop)---asaja-rombe-hall.jpg\" class=\"mx-auto align-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Heslop\n    <\/p>\n<p>Now in his senior year at BHS, Evan Cobigo has become a veteran of balancing sleep, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s satisfied with the amount of sleep he gets on average. \u201cI have better performance when I sleep more \u2026 for basically everything,\u201d he said. Cobigo said that schoolwork and college applications take away from his sleep, as well as being on his phone. Cobigo often goes to bed on the later side, anywhere between 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., waking up past the start of school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sleeping-wos-(evan-cobigo)---asaja-rombe-hall.jpg\" class=\"mx-auto align-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Evan Cobigo\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amidst academic workloads and extracurriculars, it&#8217;s no suprise that more sleep is desired across all grades. 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