The point of moving the clock one half hour ahead permanently is lost upon me. The original rationalization for “Daylight Saving Time” was for factory workers, whose shift ended at four PM, would have time to get home and work in their home garden plots for an extra hour before dark. This pretty much went away with flextime, and even more so in regards to remote working schedules.
Making it “year around” is even more bizarre, as during the month of December, school children boarding school buses would have to be ready two hours, or more, before the sun rises in the morning. This very scheme of making DST year around was tried back during the Jimmy Carter administration, and it was quickly abandoned after only one season, if I recall correctly.
But for Democrats, bad ideas never go away.....
So what....if it is a problem, just move the school starting time back by the same amount instead of inconveniencing THE ENTIRE NATION with this constant clock change stupidity.
Any child that lives north of the California/Oregon border already deals with darkness when going to school in winter, so your argument is moot.
Additionally, if your concern were even remotely legitimate, why couldn’t the schools just adjust their start time rather than inconvenience the entire nation with an utterly pointless government control excursion?
As an aside: Why do we want more light for summer evenings anyway? If you personally want to have more daylight, get your sorry ass out of bed earlier rather than ruin everyone else’s sleeping routines.
We need longer evening light in the WINTER, but DST is completely upside-down in that regard.