And what about when kids used to live and work on a farm, should they just sleep till noon?
What a pant load. If they get up nice and early every day (whether they feel like it or not) and put in a good day’s work, then they’ll fall asleep when their head hits the pillow and can get to bed earlier.
Many people’s sleep pattern doesn’t jive with their employer’s requirements. Thus the snooze button. Easier to change your sleep pattern than the working world.
In many schools, opening revolves around the parents who have to be at work by eight. For instance, the doors open here at 7:15, and there is a large group waiting to get in, plus a long drop off line. That gives the parents time to get to work by eight. The end of the day, though, doesn’t match anyone’s schedules since the kids get out just before three, while the parents don’t get back in town until six-ish. If anything, dismissal revolves around the teachers who have put in eight of more hours already.
BOOM! - MIC DROP
But before electric lights, they went to sleep at sundown, not 11pm.
Exactly.
And it does indeed still revolve around century-old lifestyles - having to farm, AND mom being home.
Why was mom home? Because she didn’t HAVE to “work” for money to pay up the taxes. There was no income tax.
Get rid of income tax.