Alaska's schoolkids have been doing this since the beginning. So far, I am unaware of any student deaths caused by darkness.
I believe in survival of the fittest...
Generations of ALaska schoolkids have walked to school and the bus stop in the dark. I was one of them. Our mothers would sew relective tape to our jackets and send us on our merry ways.
Here in the summer, you don’t have to save daylight, you can’t get away from it. Even here in the southcentral area, it never gets all the way dark at solstice. Now if they could some daylight for December, I’ll vote for that!
Alaska's schoolkids have been doing this since the beginning. So far, I am unaware of any student deaths caused by darkness.
Well..., there's no doubt about it in my mind, that kids running around in dusky light is a dangerous thing on city streets. I wouldn't want to let out a whole bunch kids, across the city, in dusky light... if there was a better way to do it. It's much better in bright daylight.
As far as Alaska is concerned... what do you expect for a state that has the Arctic Circle cutting through it and hardly any daylight at all during the winter months and none at the northern end...
But, in the "lower 48" -- we don't live that close to the Arctic Circle and the land of the midnight sun... doncha know... LOL...