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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But who needs light at 7? My kids school starts at 7:30 and we walk. We start walking at 7:20… it’s totally fine. What’s not fine is darkness at 5pm when kids would like to play outside. Instead they just play inside [/quote]

That might work for your family where you live, but in some places, sunrise in winter under permanent daylight savings wouldn’t happen until 8:30 or 9am. [/quote]

Different poster than you quoted though, I posted earlier wishing that DST would be permanent.

I know it’s awful to get up and go to school in the dark.  My kids had to catch the bus before 7 to get to middle school and high school, and when I was in school, I had to leave about 6 when my mom went to work and wait in the dark parking lot until my father got off work from the night shift, hopefully in time to get me to school.

If changing the clock could keep kids from walking to school in the dark, I might support it.  But as your post points out, if sunrise doesn’t happen until 9 am, kids will still have to walk to school in the dark on Standard Time, even if it’s fewer days than they would on DST.  If parents and schools have to make provisions for getting kids to school safely in the dark, anyway, we might as well give kids the daylight in the afternoon when they can enjoy it.

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