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> my school can't change its own schedule until the majority of the parents are also able to cope with the new one. Sure it can. Announce the change in advance
by anoncake 6y ago
> my school can't change its own schedule until the majority of the parents are also able to cope with the new one.
Sure it can. Announce the change in advance and tell people they better be able to switch by then. Being able to coordinate changes like that is part of the point of having a state.
- rootusrootus 6y agoThat's not just a simple announcement, though. It will require additional budget to pay for the before-school supervision required for students whose parents don't have the luxury of telling their employer that their hours must change.
- salawat 6y agoNot if it comes paired with legislation forcing employers to get on board on penalty of punitive damages being assessed against them. Been done before, can be done again. The trick is coordinating from the bottom, then up. The Dog wags the tail. Not the other way around.
- buzzerbetrayed 6y agoWhy is everyone suggesting things that are so much harder than just changing the clock? Now you literally want to get lawyers and judges involved in order to enforce your legislation, instead of just changing the clock. These ideas are insane.
- mitchdoogle 6y agoThe situation we're in is kind of insane. Where were the people like you when DST was passed into law?
- anoncake 6y agoIf doing things properly instead of leaving cludges in place forever is insane, we need a lot more insane ideas. Seriously, laws aren't scary.
- drdeadringer 6y ago> Not if it comes paired with legislation forcing employers to get on board on penalty of punitive damages being assessed against them. > Been done before, can be done again. I do not recall this, so to me this sounds like dreamscape idealism. I would like to be educated otherwise. Is this real? Is this actually possible in 2020 reality?
- afarrell 6y agoFrance implemented the metric system a year after the Execution of Robespierre. Russia used the Julian calendar until Vladimir Lenin's decree in 1918. So yes, there are indeed states which are capable of these sorts of changes.
- Google234 6y agoStates were much more authoritarian back then
- ridaj 6y agoYes. And how does the state exert such coordination in the most efficient way possible? Changing clock time is how.
- anoncake 6y agoLeaving things broken is not an efficient way of fixing them.
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