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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: SpringForward
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 13:21:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 13:21:08 1984
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[Living sacrifice to assuage the gods of first lines . . .]

...!nrl-vgr!wmartin argues:
> The standard argument I heard repeatedly during the proposed "year-round
> daylight-saving time" was about school children going to school in
> the dark. This is asinine: a) most are bussed anyway; b) the world should
> be arranged for the benefit of real working people, not school kids;
> c) schools can change their hours at the drop of an administrator --
> they have around here to conform with the bussing nonsense anyway! --
> so they could set up any schedule they want.

Although I have my own rather violent feelings about daylight savings time,
the argument presented above seems to me to be naive in all three of its
subtopics.  Bused school children would typically stand along a roadside
somewhere waiting for the bus.  They are obviously more at risk in the dark
than in daylight, since the motorists on their way to work would have more
trouble seeing them.  As for the benefits of "real working people" vs
school children, I wonder if, perhaps, some of the parents/guardians of
school children might turn out to be "real working people" whose benefits
coincide with those of their school children?  As to the ability of
schools to set up any schedule they want, I wonder how well it would work
out if the working parents were due at work at 8, but the schools did not
open until 9:30?!  The school schedules are very definitely tied to the
prevailing work schedules!!

FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems
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