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Rab said:
spurgeonryan said:
Seems whenever I hear A home schooler talk he is bragging about waking up whenever. This is not good Imo. Kids need to be used to waking up early. Not just whenever. Usually in the work force you need to be used to a schedule.

 

Actually waking up whenever is the best for their future

Sleep is one of the most important needs of a child/teenager, they will be better able to learn if rested, less moody, concentrate better, feel happier

Teenagers in particular have a body clock shift of about 2 hrs, where they cant help but go to bed later and wake up later, if you cater for this, teens will be less moody and better able to cope with learning, in conventional schools teens are forced to get up even earlier to their detriment

As for the workforce hours, as adults they will adjust with ease because their body clock is now far more flexible (one advantage of growing up)

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/teens-health/CC00019


Kids need more sleep than adults, that's a fact.  Kids go to school earlier than parents go to work only to accomodate their parents' schedule.  I'm a firm believer that some kids are permanently left behind due to just this fact.  By the time their biological clock is awake, they've already zombied through two classes.  

I hated school. I can honestly say, I ditched school at every level all the way through graduate schools, whenever I could...just so I could sleep.  In fact, I also worked hard just to never have to wake up early again for a job.  The world has a bias against nocternal people.  When I started my own company, I stocked the company fridge with beer and I never gave anyone a hardtime not showing up early.  World is too uptight and too intolerant of people who just think differently.

Back to gaming, the first thing something goes wrong, everyone points their fingers at gamers.  It's ok to read about David vs Goliath, et tu Brute?, but the minute it's FUN in a video game, it's teaching violence.  Schools teach you to accept everything it establishes as accepted bahavior and brainwashes entire generations of people against TV, Video Games.  And force feed classes after classes of useless knowledge, not to enhance a kid's life, but to help ensure the scientific community reigns supreme.