Searcy, Ar. (LP)— Daylight savings time has different affects on different people. The daylight savings time was originally introduced March 19, 1918 to help us conserve daylight and fuel to make the daylight last longer in the winter and less of it in the summer. Daylight savings time has been around for a long time and is one of the most useful things in the United States and helps us to conserve daylight so we can get more stuff done whether it be chores, work, hunting, or school.
A teacher of the Searcy High School Ms. Tyler Choate, who teaches Oral Communications at the Searcy High School, has given us at the Searcy Lion Press a bit of her time in order to answer a few questions that we had asked her, she said, “I really don’t like this daylight savings time because of the problem of having to spring forward or fall back, it is really messing me up in terms of time and setting my alarm clock back an hour or forward an hour.” Ms. Choate is trying to combat a familiar enemy every morning at first period in the school day. “I am trying to combat falling back to sleep early in the morning around eight o’ clock. Still trying to stay awake is hard but I am able to do it so I encourage the students to try too, its not easy though it is very hard.”
Jacob Wells is a local student here at the high school is has given some insight to the matter of trying to stay awake during daylight savings time, he said, “I have a lot of trouble staying awake early in the morning for the first few class periods, but I am trying to make this work for as long as I can so I don’t get into trouble for falling asleep in class.” Jacob has had trouble in the past with trying to stay awake, he has developed a way to not fall asleep in class. “The technique I use is to keep a piece of my body moving but where it doesn’t distract anyone from paying attention to the teacher when they are talking, just keep the movement enough to stay awake but not disrupt the class.”
It looks like the teachers and students have their own ways of staying awake in class early in the morning. The students have their way and the teachers have theirs. The real question is how will the teachers and students be affected when it comes time to spring forward in the spring of 2019.
