"City, burb, or rural, student/athletes suffer huge sleep deprivation."
So do student performing artists in multiple arts, requiring daily formal training to maintain their own desired level of competitiveness & achievement. (Not to mention, like sports, daily practice in anything involving the body -- music, dance, for example, let alone both together, which my children have had.) On top of that they had commutes from big city to suburb on public transportation, including waits for links.
That was in excess of 3-7 AP and Honors courses every semester. To me, what is more "insane" than quitting a job, is the insane level of expectation at very competitive public or private high schools. It's a compressed 4 years, resembling very much the first years when one's adult career takes off, & one is "proving" oneself. (Only these aren't adults!)
"Sleep deprivation?" Mine could write the book.
