It is a well-known phenomenon: adolescents tend to suffer from what sleep scientists call “delayed phase” and the rest of us call problems getting out of bed in the morning. And some are more nocturnal than others...
Most teachers are familiar with a pattern: students who stay up late gaming, texting or even reading, have difficulty getting up, and difficulty getting started in the morning. They come into school tired, perhaps irritable. These are the “owls” – left to their own devices (such as in the holidays) they might stay up all night and sleep through to the late afternoon: “vampire hours”. And typically, these owls get poorer grades in school, particularly in subjects such as maths, science and languages.
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