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Oh the children! Give me a break. Go to school in the dark, or come home in the dark. Do that one time of year, or another. It all comes out in the wash.
by JoeAltmaier 5y ago
Oh the children!
Give me a break. Go to school in the dark, or come home in the dark. Do that one time of year, or another. It all comes out in the wash.
- nemo44x 5y agoIt's unsafe. A child is more likely to be hit by a car when it is dark. With the current system they can leave for school and come home when there is light.
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- r0m4n0 5y agoShouldn't they just go to school later when it's darker? They could come up with a policy to start school later and get out later in the winter or something. Why does the entire country have to modify their clocks for a few minority use cases?
- nullc 5y agoSure, then move the start times of the school to a safe time. The time zone changes kill people.
- moron4hire 5y agoIs it society's time-keeping system that is at fault, or the school system's start time? Cuz I kinda think organized school systems with rigid start times are a later development.
- richardwhiuk 5y agoThat's not true in the northern states anyway.
- ghaff 5y agoI have a feeling quite a few people commenting don't live in northern states and thinks there's plenty of light to go around if it were just aligned right.
- twiddling 5y agoThe demographic center of the US has drifted South over the past 50 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_States_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_Stat...
- cr1895 5y agoOr living in countries north of northern US states. They should come visit a higher latitude in winter
- ghaff 5y agoBasically because of the Gulf Stream influence on climate, I suspect a lot of Americans would be surprised how far north Europe is compared to the US. (And therefore that you deal with darkness in the morning and the evening for a decent chunk of the year.)
- matsemann 5y agoBan cars around schools.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoSome places, at some times of year.
- bradlys 5y agoCool. Teach your kid to not run into the middle of the street then? Provide pedestrian pathways/walkways? Idk maybe make walking a good thing? Many ways to do this instead of, “children can only be outside when the sun is at high noon!!”
- jahewson 5y agoDay 1: teach small child French Day 2: child now speaks fluent French! And so it is with running into the street.
- stadium 5y agoMorning and evening sunlight depends a lot on the latitude.
- falcolas 5y agoI would also note that in the northern states, children go to school in the dark (and often also come home in the dark) regardless of DST/ST, because we hold school over winter, and we get about 8-9 hours of sunlight a day in the winter.
- asdff 5y agoBetter to come home in the sunlight. Even if you have indoor sports after school now you have some time to potentially absorb vitamin D. Not much absorbing you are doing in the morning shuffling to get ready for school.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoTake a pill.