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> Opponents of the bill say DST makes it hard on school children and parents who have to wait at the bus stop in dark hours of the morning. We should also push
by jb775 6y ago
> Opponents of the bill say DST makes it hard on school children and parents who have to wait at the bus stop in dark hours of the morning.
We should also push back school start times at least 1 hour. Studies have shown kids benefit from this, mostly as a result of getting more sleep.
School starting times have historically been pegged to the time most parents begin their work commute. Since many parents no longer have a commute, it makes even more sense to push back starting times.
- pkulak 6y agoPush back school, and you have to push back work (no, not everyone can work from home). And then you have to push back entertainment. And then everything else. And then you've changed the clocks, but in a worse, more complicated way.
- shados 6y agoNot everyone can work from home, but tons and tons of people can't work 9 to 5 either. We can instead start agreeing that the current system is pretty broken. When I was in elementary school, my parents had to start work much earlier than school started (at some point my mother was a school bus driver. Kinds of rule that out no matter how much you shift the school day!). So I was just waiting alone for the bus for a few hours. It was boring as hell, not gonna lie.
- jb775 6y agoWe should push back work, but still end at the same time. We've been programmed to accept 9-5 salaried jobs (which is actually 8-5 or 9-6 for most people not including commute) but on a macro level it's been proven employees are receiving less and less of the pie. Fuck them, let's work less and enjoy more of life with ppl you care about.