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martyb
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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(Score: 3, Interesting) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:22AM
While running schools like businesses may be a problem, I really don't think it's the main reason for early morning school. Starting school before 9am definitely makes sense because anyone with a small child likely knows that little kids (on average) tend to rise early with the sun -- assuming, of course, that they don't stay up late watching screens.
What's stupid in many schools is that limited numbers of buses mean they have to run at different times for different levels, and the stupid part of that is that teenagers in high school often end up being the ones picked up at 6am (despite the copious evidence showing adolescents tend to have late sleep schedules on average), while the little kids who have been bouncing of their parents' beds since 6am don't get picked up until a couple hours later.
Swap those, and you'd actually have a schedule that makes a little sense. But most schools don't do it... And you know why? No, it has little to do with running as a "business." It's because of sports, which generally influence way too may decisions about education.
Seriously, ask a high school principal some time why you can't start school later. I've taught in such schools, and I have asked. It's because after-school sports meets often already pull kids out of afternoon classes a bit early -- so postpone start time by an hour or two, and sports kids would miss half a school day.
It's really disturbing how much sports influences money spent on education, how schools are run, what their schedules are, etc. in the U.S. You want to fix school schedules? Start by asking what the priorities are....