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By Hades Corey

Teen2Teen Intern

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or teens, transitioning from
summer back to school is
painful. After getting used to
the long summer days, it seems almost
impossible to adapt to the school
schedule.
Whether students have been working,
at camp, volunteering or just lying by
the pool, school is starting soon and ifs
time to get back in the swing of things.
But as summer fades and thoughts
of school invade, students may be won-
dering: Do I remember anything from
last year? Feel like your mind has gone
to mush?
It's a known fact that the long break
can cause students to forget skills they
used to know cold.
"On average, students lose approxi-
mately 2.6 months of grade level equiva-
lency in mathematical computation
skills over the summer months',' accord-
ing to the Johns Hopkins University
Center for Summer Learning in
Baltimore. "Studies reveal that the great-
est areas of summer loss for all students
are in factual or procedural knowledge."
"Each fall, teachers regularly spend
up to six weeks going over the same les-
sons their students were taught in previ-
ous school years:' says Ron Fairchild,
executive director of the Center for
Summer Learning.
This backwards trend limits the time
teachers have to introduce new material
to the students. The solution? Next sum-
mer, try keeping your nose in a book or
educational magazine. Reading helps
keep the mind active and alert. Students
who read decrease their chances of

suffering from memory loss and boost
their vocabulary.
"Over the summer months, my mom
used to purchase these math packets
and I would have to do the entire
thing," says one young student from
Birmingham who chooses anonymity
for fear his mom will read this. "She
finally stopped buying them — after
I begged her — but now I have to use
math to figure out the proper tip to
give our waitress every time we go out
to eat."
The summer trend of staying out
late and sleeping til noon is history,
with classes resuming at 7:30 a.m.
for those in middle school and high
school. According to a sleep study done
at the University of Michigan by nurse
Kyla Burse, teens from ages 13-16 need
eight to nearly 10 hours of sleep a
night. Lack of sleep can cause multiple
issues, such as problems in school
and driving accidents. Kidshealth.org
claims that more than half of "asleep-
at-the-wheel" car accidents are caused
by sleep-deprived teens.
"You need a half-hour with no com-
puter, no text messages, no cell phone
and no TV" before going to bed, says
Southfield psychologist Janice Goldfein,
"You have to wind down and slowly
transition by getting rid of any stimuli
that are keeping you at a high-alert
status."
Still, it seems as though there are
not enough hours in the day to get the
right amount of sleep.
"I always feel tired, even when I go
to bed relatively early. I can never get
enough sleep',' says Elyse Shapiro, 16, of

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