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Teen Night Owls Struggle To Learn And Control Emotions At School

It’s hard for Zachary Lane to wake up in time for school every day.

“I have four alarms set and it still takes me a long time to wake me up,” says Lane, a 17-year-old high school junior in Zionsville, Ind.

He says he regularly gets detention for being tardy. “I get to school and I’m talked to like I’m attempting to skip school — like I’m attempting to be truant,” he says. “I feel terrible. It’s awful.”

And when Lane does make it to class on time, he has a hard time focusing.

 

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