Have you ever had the feeling that if you had just one more hour of sleep you could have done better in school? Lack of sleep for our teenage brains is a big problem; less sleep can limit the development of our brain. Our bodies naturally wake up later, so we are more alert. We should delay our first hour to get that extra hour of sleep. The government is starting to notice that teenagers need more sleep to concentrate in school, so they are working to enact laws and bills to give us that extra hour of needed sleep. We teenagers should be allowed an extra hour of sleep. Research has shown that even with an extra hour of sleep we perform better during the school day! Teenagers need sleep just as much as toddlers; adolescents have different brain biology than children and adults. Sleep-deprived adolescents show lower brain activity while working than when resting. Greater activity comes from the prefrontal cortex, which helps coordinate attention and memory, and the temporal cortex, which contributes to listening and reading comprehension when well rested. Sleep deprivation also reduces the supply of cortisone and growth hormone which regulate appetite. It is a fact that tiredness causes more than one hundred thousand road accidents every year. Adequate sleep contributes to brain development, growth of memory circuits, and replenishment of neurotransmitters and endorphins needed to maximize healthy emotions, mood, attention, memory, and thinking. Such sleep defects can interfere with brain development and increase the chance that an adolescent will develop attention deficit disorder and other cognitive problems. Sleep deprivation can also lead to risky decision making and behavior, higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression… middle of the paper… a month break to keep us healthy so we can learn more next year.Teenagers need more sleep to function in school; many studies have shown that sleeping more helps us learn better and that our adolescent brain works significantly differently than that of adults. Studies have shown that the biology of the adolescent brain is different; these studies conclude that if schools want ready students, they need to be well-rested. Without getting enough sleep, teens are at risk for mental and physical health problems. Teens are more likely to drop out of school because they are not motivated to do their best because they are so sleep deprived that they can focus on school work. If our public school gives us at least thirty minutes of extra sleep, we will be able to keep up with our internal biological clock and thus be able to concentrate more, bringing a clear change in our test scores.