D.S.T. and Students

How are students doing with the change in time to Daylight Savings Time (D.S.T.)?

How do teachers prepare for that first Monday after the time-change? This year it was last Sunday, March 10. Presumably, everyone arose an hour "earlier". How does that work out for high schoolers, middle schoolers and, especially, elementary school students?

Does it make those first few teaching days harder, when kids are still half-asleep?

And how about the teachers themselves and the bus drivers? Is everyone awake and cheery first thing in the morning?

I remember a school year, when I lived in Illinois (1996-2014), and the local school district announced that the following year's classes would begin earlier in the day.

One wise mother wrote a Letter to the Editor of the county's daily newspaper. She wrote that she agreed that children learn better earlier in the day, "but they have to be awake first."

This year one former teacher emailed me that her sister and she had been late for a luncheon on Sunday. When did you change your clocks? Saturday night or Sunday morning?

How is it going in your family? (Please comment below.)