It is time to turn our clocks back again one hour from daylight saving time to standard time. The main argument that we hear against having year-round daylight saving time is that schoolchildren would need to be out waiting and getting on their school buses in the dark.
It seems to me that there is an easy solution to that: change the schools’ starting time to an hour later or whatever would work best. I am no expert on schools’ starting and ending time, but I am surprised that we don’t hear any discussion about that. I realize that, like most other major changes in our lives, it is easier said than done. School starting times need to work out to fit in with parents’ work starting times, etc. But it seems to me it is time to have a serious discussion about it.
A lot of people who work outside adjust their hours to take advantage of the differing hours of daylight as they change during the year. Often when suggestions are made about doing things in a better way, the standard answer is, “We have always done it that way.”
