I want daylight savings to be abolished. In the U.S., Arizona and Hawaii don’t do daylight savings, and also other countries including most of Asia. Those parts being China, India, and Japan, and all of Africa doesn’t even do it. I am not trying to come at you aggressively at all because I know that there is a bill (VT H0538) being considered for daylight savings time to be abolished. But I am also not asking for this to happen just because I want it to.

I am also sending this letter because it has been scientifically proven that changing times is unhealthy. There have been studies proving that it leads to more heart attacks and fatal car crashes. It is also harder for students to learn because it makes us tired. I have noticed the kids in my school, including me, tend to make worse choices, therefore leading to us getting in trouble more often.

There are many more reasons that daylight savings makes people’s everyday lives harder. For instance, the changing of the clocks can be a large struggle for people who use analog clocks and analog wrist watches. These struggles may vary from either getting to work or a job interview late, or if someone needs to get somewhere that is very important for this person or to another person who is hoping they show up. Daylight savings could make said person be late by an hour or even miss it completely, which could be a very big problem.

As you can see there are many reasons that daylight savings should be abolished. Please do what you can to fix this problem. Thank you for your time regarding abolishing daylight savings.

Colvin Killon
VUMS Student

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Students at Vergennes Union Middle School finished a civics unit by writing open letters. The driving question was: What makes democracy work? To create this final project, teachers and students used the New York Times open letter contest framework. Students could choose any topic they felt passionate about. The letters are being published in several different venues: in our school newsletter, on Front Porch Forum, in The Addison Independent, and on school bulletin boards. Two students submitted their letters to the NYT contest! Our students did a wonderful job writing these letters, and we hope you enjoy reading the ones that appear here. We expect these students will continue to use their voices to highlight issues they care about!

Libby Payeur and Nan Guilmette
VUMS Humanities Teachers