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You must mean push the school time forward? pushing it back would just mean they spend more time in darkness. I'm being needlessly pedantic (sorry) but "back"

You must mean push the school time forward? pushing it back would just mean they spend more time in darkness. I'm being needlessly pedantic (sorry) but "back" and "forward" in time is a confusing concept best thought of in terms to "traveling back in time" (decrement your clock, move to an earlier time) "traveling forward in time" (increment your clock, move to a later time). Saying "push back" is a very confusing phrase to me because I don't actually know what you mean and need to pick it up from context clues which are not always right.

rossng 8y ago
It seems correct to me. I found a good analogy on a StackExchange answer[1]: pushing 'back' means pushing something away from the current point in time. Bringing 'forward' means bringing it closer to the current point. So 'pushing back' school start times would mean that school started later in the morning, when it was lighter. [1] https://english.stackexchange.com/a/157003 https://english.stackexchange.com/a/157003
skinnymuch 8y ago
Isn’t it confusing either way? Pushing school forward sounds right to you, but to me that sounds like making the school times earlier. It’s a bit uncomfortable for me to imagine it meaning the opposite. Obviously I’m saying that light heartedly but pushing back is what sounds natural to me. Like “push back a meeting”.
pymai 8y ago
"spring back fall forward" isn't much help either since you can fall back as well as forward