Enter Library At Your Own Risk

Students claim to go crazy in high school. Is it any wonder? Our mornings begin at 5:30am. Schools in session until 3:00pm. Homework keeps many up until 1:00am and this cycle repeats 5 days a week for 10 months. We now maintain a (un) healthy diet of energy drinks, candy bars, and medication for ADD/ADHD. I mean, come on. Is there really no other way to graduate? People have managed to live thousands of years without this rigor. Do we really need all the information being taught in order to survive the big, bad world. Wouldn't a little sleep help everyone get along. Imagine rested teenagers excited to go to school and feeling challenged through material necessary for human advancement. Teacher's delighted that we are awake and alert...Schools have always said they teach us to read, write and do math, right? If teachers constantly suggest using the library, why do the 'Madam Librarians' in our schools encourage us to leave the library? Our library sits empty unless a student takes the time to ask a teacher for a permission slip to enter the library. Try entering without one and wow! Look out! Madam Librarian is like a terminator waiting to squash you like a bug...but that's High School.