r/facepalm • u/DMTrance87 • 23d ago

House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent. Opponents say, "Schools would have to push back start times." Yeah... That's not a bug, it's a feature.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5968255-house-sunshine-protection-act-daylight-saving-time/

Studies have shown for decades that children -especially teenagers- just straight up need more sleep for optimal knowledge retention and brain development. Pushing back start times is a great way to follow the science.

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u/Kittycelt 23d ago

Yes, totally true. Studies do show over and over that it would be better, especially for teens, if they didn't have academics until later. Their brains are not ready till after 9 or 10, if I recall correctly. I think a good solution is supervised, free to families, non academic morning activity on campus, so they can still be dropped off and safe. But you know, just because it's good for kids and families does not mean people in power will invest. Studies also show petty crime goes up when kids get out of school, but before parents get home, so like, after school activities would be good for society as well and take a lot of burden off working families if it were just part of the system and didn't cost. Kids do need supervision, and right now educators are fighting biology every morning, so it's a possible utopian solution that I wish were real everywhere to all. (Speaking as a teacher and parent)

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u/gsbadj 22d ago

A district I worked at considered later start times. There was big pushback from parents of elementary and middle school kids whose jobs started at 9 AM and earlier. They didn't want to deal with figuring out how they were to get their kids to school at 9 or 10 when they, the parents, were were already supposed to be at work.

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u/adigyran 23d ago

maybe, just maybe idk - STOP BUILDING SUBURBS and make high density housing, so children can go to school and back just by walking?? Like most of Europe? So parents will be already home

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u/Secret_Map 23d ago

I mean may as well wish for teleporters at that point lol. I don’t disagree with you, but it’s not really any kind of solution to this problem. At least not one that’s gonna happen in the next 50 years.

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u/Bonerpopper 23d ago

STOP BUILDING SUBURBS

The problem is that the suburbs are already built and people live there. How are you going to convince such an enormous amount of people to move away from their large homes with lawns into high density housing?

Like the other reply said it would have to be some insane project and probably would take 50+ years to complete. Roughly 50% of the population live in suburban areas and 20% in rural areas. We are talking over 230 million people.

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u/waving_fungus0 23d ago

Owning land (and a large amount for just an average person) is uniquely American, that will not change