Although I agree with you in theory, the school calendars and other schedules would have to change, too, to avoid this danger:
In Jacksonville, Florida, where I lived some 30+ years ago, the mayor of the combined City/County decided not to have daylight savings time in our county, which didn't matter to me either way.
Kids now waiting for the school bus (schools on same old schedule) were soon picked up in the dark (buses run earlier than school starts, remember), and two boys in a group at a residential school bus stop pushed each other (as boys can & will sometimes) into the edge of the street, and a car going to work at their regular old-time schedule did not see them in the dark until too late, and killed one or both.
So, while I am bodily resistant to the artificial time change & it takes me about a week to adjust, I am FOR the artificial time change for the safety of the bus-dependent school children. As a mom, I believe safety of the kids comes first.
It was a high-class subdivision, there was a lot of push-back, and the mayor quickly changed it to daylight-savings time, as was needed.
To E. Cole,
Although I agree with you in theory, the school calendars and other schedules would have to change, too, to avoid this danger:
In Jacksonville, Florida, where I lived some 30+ years ago, the mayor of the combined City/County decided not to have daylight savings time in our county, which didn't matter to me either way.
Kids now waiting for the school bus (schools on same old schedule) were soon picked up in the dark (buses run earlier than school starts, remember), and two boys in a group at a residential school bus stop pushed each other (as boys can & will sometimes) into the edge of the street, and a car going to work at their regular old-time schedule did not see them in the dark until too late, and killed one or both.
So, while I am bodily resistant to the artificial time change & it takes me about a week to adjust, I am FOR the artificial time change for the safety of the bus-dependent school children. As a mom, I believe safety of the kids comes first.
It was a high-class subdivision, there was a lot of push-back, and the mayor quickly changed it to daylight-savings time, as was needed.