Posted on 03/11/2019 9:23:26 AM PDT by McGruff
More light for sports and recreation after work.
Sure. More darkness in the morning means more kids getting run over on the way to school.
And, for the record, I think public schools should be abolished anyway. They are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. They are absurdly expensive and grossly ineffective. The main reason people bristle at the idea is that they need the free daycare.
Truth is that, just as bad parents today tend to end up with poorly educated children, the same would happen if we abolished public schools. And the rest of the parents out there would use things like Kahnacademy.com, MIT and other free resources to teach their kids and get curriculum at a fraction of the price of public school, as well as the time commitment and all the other peripheral dollar expenses.
And most kids could reach the knowlege level of a typical high school graduate in ten years or less. Often significantly less.
No more school buses either. :)
Agreed. It's a bad idea.
I’m all in for dealing with reality
start school an hour later?
everyone will adjust.
Why not just have school start later? Kids typically get home around 230 in the afternoon as it is.
How about we advance the clocks ahead a couple minutes every week for half the year, and then retard them the same amount on the other half.
Then we get the benefits of both time periods without the sleeping shock, and we’ll create an entire industry to fix all of our clocks, software, appliances, etc. That will require plenty of coders, so it solves the problem of MSM “journalists” made unemployed lately. They can “learn to code” and apply that new knowledge right away.
but, but, but...we like STANDARD time for a year-round measure.
Or, the vast majority of people do.
I live in KY. The kids are already going to school in the dark.
Californians voted for year-round daylight saving. Could this be our last spring forward?
3/9/2019, 9:09:46 AM · 36 of 80
Don W to kenmcg
Yes, the number of kids injured enroute to school because of winter darkness north of the Cali-Oregon border is appalling.
Here are a couple of hints: #1 Very few kids even walk to school anymore, because the church of perpetual panic (aka the press) has got parents paranoid about children’s safety even though we live in a far safer time than when we grew up, and: #2 the accident rate for kids in the north varies insignificantly from that rate south of the imaginary line I described earlier.
Your argument has ZERO basis in fact. The reason that humans are so successful is because we adapt quickly. Proof of that is the accident rate after each time change: it spikes for a day or two, then returns to its “normal” pattern.
I detest DST, and concur that the clocks should be left alone, since the original idea was a JOKE Benjamin Franklin made at the expense of the French.
The bigger joke is that politicians actually BELIEVED him!
Normal standardized time or an hour advanced, I don’t care, just make a decision and leave it the devil alone!
We have a kid killed going to school every year or two around my neck of the woods. It’s almost always in the morning
It’s not about daylight. It’s about impatient and careless drivers. That happens night or day.
“Is there anyone who is against it?”
Polls consistently show a preference for eliminating DST and reverting to Standard time year round.
Here are a couple of hints: #1 Very few kids even walk to school anymore, because the church of perpetual panic
True. The kids killed in my area on the way to school tend to be hit around bus stops.
A long time ago in a liberal classroom far away...
In a mid-1970’s government class, I in the House of Representatives introduced a bill to use DST all year round.
I was condescendingly told there were more important bills for the limited time we were in session.
Like the “equal rights amendment”, upon and for which all the cool well-connected Senators and Executive Branch members pontificated and received praise.
I think it should be eliminated. It's pointless.
It’s not about daylight. It’s about impatient and careless drivers. That happens night or day.
Yet I can’t recall the last afternoon child fatality related to school transportation in my area. I wonder why that is?
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