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on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:11PM
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill establishing permanent Daylight Saving Time in the state, and the Governor has signaled she supports the effort. If it passes the House (and possibly the US Congress, it is a bit ambiguous to me), it could end the semi-annual resetting of clocks which causes so much annoyance and increase of injury and deaths.
Personally speaking, I'd rather it settled on permanent Standard time than Daylight time, but as long as it is steady I think it's better than the current regime.
See also:
Texas efforts: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/05/1413228
Europe's efforts: http://fortune.com/2019/03/26/european-union-parliament-daylight-saving-time/
Mandatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1268/
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Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
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(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Saturday April 06 2019, @09:45PM (1 child)
That's nice. But when are they going to learn to interact with people outside their narrow cohort aside from a few teachers and parents? One thing about working a job under an employer is you get exposure to very different people, particularly in public-facing jobs.
A huge problem with school is that it is socially isolated - it is rare to interact with students more than two years away from you (I rarely did except in some summer programs) much less the general public. And there's this growing movement towards young adults avoiding employment (and the non profit equivalents) which means some people have avoided exposure to society for more than two decades by the time they get out of college.
I guess my complaint here is that when all else fails, public education advocates resort to socialization as the excuse for having public schools with the rigid conditions they have. All I can say, is that if socialization is your primary educational product, and as with most schools, students haven't interacted with people far outside their age cohort through to graduation, then there's something wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:14AM
Yeah, because everybody needs a master.