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Course workload, extracurricular activities, sports participation, study habits, phone/social media use, and time management skills all impact sleep time.

FYI, since we live in a participating county, our student’s bus to TJ leaves at 7:30 AM and returns around 5 PM.

During freshman year, as a family, we made it a priority to ensure our TJ student consistently got at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep on weekday nights, regardless of tests or homework deadlines. Weekends were less structured, and she typically slept about 9 hours per night, totaling around 55 to 60 hours of sleep per week. [size=18][b]During the sports season, which lasts about 8 to 10 weeks, practice or games took up an extra 2–3 hours on most weekdays, disrupting her sleep schedule. However, she compensated by sleeping more on weekends[/b].[/size]

Despite the busy schedule, she maintained near-perfect grades in freshman year and has since taken on a slightly more rigorous course load. Simultaneously, we also chose to step back somewhat, allowing her to manage her own time with occasional reminders about aiming for 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night. Even with increased distractions like online socializing with TJ friends, project classmates, and tighter evening sports schedule, and family time, she still averages around 55 hours of sleep per week.

There are some nights when she stays up closer to or past midnight, but she balances it out by catching up on sleep the next night or over the weekend. As long as she continues to maintain good grades, stays involved in extracurriculars, and enjoys an active social life, we aren't concerned about the occasional late nights.

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This is not how sleep works. You can not make up sleep. You can return to normal sleep routines after an interruption and the damage to your body will be recovered, but if you keep staying up then it returns to being sleep deprived. Kids should be in bed by 10pm and the acceptance of them [b]staying up regularly until 11pm-2am[/b] is awful. [/quote]
Where in the pp response did they say their kid stays up that late [b]regularly[/b]? [/quote]

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