Heat the bus stop
Drive kids to the bus stop
Move bus stop to a more convenient location
Wear appropriate clothing for being outside in the winter.
There are a lot of ways to limit a few people being cold besides shifting all of society to a suboptimal schedule, and it's not like it's balmy an hour later anyways.
> Drive kids to the bus stop
If this were possible, they would already be doing it. It isn't going to be so simple for a lot of families.
> Heat the bus stop
> Move bus stop to a more convenient location
But that requires money.
If a permanent DST bill included measures (and a budget) for "helping municipalities accommodate children commuting to school before sunrise," I think I might be more willing to get behind that.
But if it wasn't in the bill, I think we both know it wouldn't happen. Not in this country and political climate.
Unless the effort of doing so isn't currently worth it but would be under the new circumstances. Further, many already do this. Combined with moving bus stops to more convenient locations (ie closer to people's homes) and it's easy to imagine this satisfying the vast majority of people.
> But that requires money.
Having a motor vehicle drive up the street to the pedestrian rather than having the pedestrian walk down the street is a pen-stroke away. It was one thing 50 years ago when the route had to be determined by a random guy with a paper map to keep it simple, but nowadays forcing kids to go long distances to get to a bus stop is inexcusable.
As for heating bus stops, a 1500W space heater is $50. Assuming it's on for 1 hour per day, 120 days per year, it'll use $20 worth of electricity. Assuming 2 kids per bus stop, that's 29 cents per day per student the first year and 8 cents per student per year subsequently. You only need to do this for a small subset of students who have long wait times at a bus stop and no reasonable alternative. Even if you had to provide it for every single student, that cost would be about 0.2% of the current average education budget allocation per student for the first year and less than 0.1% for subsequent years. Even if you wanted to go really fancy and add a solar power system to the bus stops to power the space heaters, you're still looking at less than $5 per student per day to pay it off in one year.
Again, these or any one of the other countless methods humans have devised for solving this problem make a lot more sense than pretending the sun rises earlier.