These problems are best solved by addressing the issue itself - that teenagers need more sleep than our maniacal obsession with starting school early in the morning.
That’s a change that can, and should, be made independently.
That’s a change that can, and should, be made independently.
It's economics. People can't work if they have to stay home with their kids.
Right, wrong, or indifferent, that's 99% of the reason for the standard school day/hours. To fix the school problem, we have to fix our out-of-date 8-5 mindset toward work, first.
Timezones are an illusion. All you're actually changing when you change the clocks are people's cultural expectations, namely around when it's appropriate to arrive at work and school. Ergo, we should adopt the standard that has people start work and school later, not even earlier than they already do!
Starting school later sound good if you live a very privileged life, but makes life impossible if you need to leave a 3 to work.
Now, while companies often have absurd requirements of their employees' time, I specifically chose the Wal-Mart example to illustrate a non-absurd requirement: a site needs its store clerks present at opening time to be able to open at opening time.
Surely not every employee has to do school drop-off in the morning though?
They walk there, use a bus, etc.
Why can't we also adjust work hours?
And if we can adjust those as well, why can't we just be on Standard Time?
The problem isn't the clock. It never was the clock.