The majority of Morton East High School students don’t get the eight to nine hours of sleep they’re supposed to every night.

According to Nationwide Children’s, adolescents should be getting a minimum of eight to nine hours of sleep every night. However, this is not the case for most adolescents. Teens sleeping schedules do not always look how they are supposed to. Teens are sleep deprived for many reasons such as early high school start times, social and school obligations and shifts in their sleeping schedules. In a random survey of 14 Morton East student’s, 78 percent of the students reported they do not get their healthy eight to nine hours of sleep every night.

“I don’t get my eight hours of sleep every night because I work. It’s difficult to manage a job and school because regardless of how tired I am after work; I have to come home to do schoolwork which takes up some time,” senior Daniella Esparza said.

On the contrary, some adolescents do get the healthy amount of sleep they should be getting every night.

“I hate being tired in the morning for school so I’m always sure to try to sleep at a certain time every night so I can get at least 8 hours of sleep. I try getting everything I need to do done so I can even have some time before bed to watch some Netflix and then go to sleep,” senior Evelyn Garcia said.

Usually, some students would love to sleep the amount they should be sleeping but just seem to not be able to.

“I’m so accustomed to sleeping until 2 or 3 in the morning. Even if I try to sleep earlier, I just can’t. Quarantine got me used to sleeping so late and now I sleep this late daily,” senior Giovanni Coronel said.