I think it's mostly the teachers and the administrators who advocate for the earlier times. Well, that and parents who drop off their kids before work. A later start would be great for students.
Work schedules would have to change. Schools are basically a child care service with varying qualities of value-add education thrown in. Maybe after a year of WFH being normalized, companies will be more accepting of flexible schedules.
I used to tutor at a Boys & Girls Club in a very low-income area in Massachusetts. The way they assign students to schools is weird (at least to me, I didn’t grow up here). Students need to apply, even to public schools, and they’re offered spots through some combination of lottery, location, and grades/test scores. One of the girls I tutored went to a school that was pretty far away from her home - something like a 90 minute bus ride thanks to traffic. When I asked her about how she ended up at a school so far away she casually explained that her parents had to be at work early so she had to go to a school where she’d get on the bus as early as possible. It broke my heart.
Work schedules would not need to change if one salary would be all you need to support a family. This world we've raised for ourselves was underpinned by a primary wage earner, and a primary homemaker. We even used to subsidize homemaking. We've gone backwards all in the name of progress.
Later drop offs would be exceedingly difficult for lower income families because their schedules are fixed and not as flexible as higher income jobs. I think permanent DST is a long time coming, but after the pandemic, it’s clear the lack of flexibility that lower income families face.
> I think it's mostly the teachers and the administrators who advocate for the earlier times. Well, that and parents who drop off their kids before work.
So what if teachers have children they need to drop off before work? That leads to some kind of infinite recursion.
aksss|5 years ago
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maerF0x0|5 years ago
So what if teachers have children they need to drop off before work? That leads to some kind of infinite recursion.
VLM|5 years ago
Everyone has to get up early all year, so the track team does not have to stay up late a couple times per year. Well, also football, basketball, etc