Posted on 03/11/2019 9:23:26 AM PDT by McGruff
That was still the time before the kids were either (a)picked up at their front door or (b)the parents drove them the two blocks or so to the bus stop and waited with them.
Heck, when I was a pup, every kid was expected to walk a quarter mile or more to their bus stop. The parents had already left for work and ANYONE who passed a school bus with lights flashing in EITHER direction would have then book thrown at them.
Even more weird is that busses would pick up elementary, junior and high school students on the same run. If you behaved like an urban feral, you had your bus riding rights suspended. Thus, there weren't many fights on school busses.
Plus if you lived within a mile or two of the school (distance varied by locality), you were EXPECTED to walk.
Uhhh, having worked for a time on a cattle ranch, I really don't remember worrying about what time it was when we saddled up and rode off in the morning.
As I recall, we pretty much referenced sunup and sundown, not a clock.
Don't recall even having a watch in those days and farmers don't either.
I had to walk barefoot in snow for ten miles uphill, both ways.
Well that's what I tell my kids.
Same Pols that had Clinton over Trump?
I had to walk a quarter mile to my school bus stop until I started driving myself. It was at the northwest corner of our farm.
Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing, but keep the sun aligned with the clock?
-PJ
FWIW, same logical suggestion was made back in the Carter era. It made a lot of sense. But parents couldn’t trust their little charges to remain home alone for an hour or so between when they left for work and daylight and, even more important, teachers didn’t like driving home during the same rush hour as the taxpaying schlubs.
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You’re deeply confused!
Daylight time makes the whole country more productive without passing tyrannical laws on how to operate business.
Well, I think it must be safer for high school kids driving school buses during daylight rather than in the dark.
Your comment is called common sense , reading some of these comments here most don’t have it ,
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Daylight time simply slides the blanket to where it is more useful.
Yep. My time too. :)
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School needs to start earlier.
Starting late simply wastes time for those that wish to be productive.
This is what the farmers around me say as well. I’m not saying it made sense. I’m just saying that is what I heard the reason was. :)
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Did you feel the earthquake? :o)
One possible decent compromise would be half hour time zones. Boston gets light almost an hour earlier than Toronto, even though they are in the same time zone and almost the same 42.5 degrees north.
I was actually thinking changing the clocks ahead 10 minutes at a time each month. From July through December, change them 10 minutes forward to gain daylight at the end of the day as the sunsets are getting earlier and then starting in January and going through June, change them 10 minutes back to take advantage of the increasing daylight. That way, it’s not such a shock and you are somewhat compensating for the increasing and decreasing daylight.
Think of the poor children walking to the school bus stop in the dark. Oh the humanity!
This sort of covers the whole thing. It looks like it may have been created to, as someone else said, align the day of non-agrarian folks with what agriculture people were already doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
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