It’s just one lousy hour, isn’t it?

It’s worse for some people than others.  Like the students at Normal Community High School, whose tardy bell is 7:20 am, thanks to a cost-saving measure enacted last summer by Unit 5 schools.  They thought moving the whole school system up an hour would straighten out their bus routes or something.  (It didn’t.)

Think about the high school kids you know.  Bright and chipper first thing in the morning?  Ready to learn, ready to take on the world?  Hey, here’s a great idea; let’s make them get up even earlier.

Last September-November, it was light when they dragged themselves to school.  Needless to say, “falling back” an hour last Fall was a welcome escape from this madness.  But as of tomorrow, they’re going to have to be in class an hour earlier, in the dark.

Unit 5 schools are going to be like a mausoleum tomorrow morning.

NOTES:

  • As a blogger, I am required to make fun of Daylight Savings Time twice a year.  But I don’t know if doing away with it would really be a good idea.  There really are a lot of different ways to look at the problem.
  • Yes, it’s called “Unit 5”.  Where they got the poetic inspiration for that school district name, I’ll never know.  At least the other one in our county is called “District 87”, which sounds a bit less like a sector in a Borg ship.
  • Wonder if there’s a “District 9” school district in the state?  That would be pretty cool.  Their football team could be called the “Prawns”...
Posted by George on 03/14/10 at 11:20 AM

  1. Actually, I kinda like DST, at least the way it used to be. Now that it starts in Winter and ends in late Fall, I’m not so sure…

    Posted by Cujo359  on  03/15/10  at  02:40 PM

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