It's not, because they aren't standing around waiting for a bus on the way home, they can just head inside.

Then perhaps school buses can change their protocol so that children don't have to be waiting outside for the pickup. Or maybe there can be some sort of notification system installed. Or some other solution to fix this specific use case without upending everything else with a massive clock shift. This is a technology forum.

The massive shift is moving to DST year round instead of standard time. Our work and school schedules are not adjusted for standard time in the winter, when it actually makes a difference.

What work and school schedules are dependent upon the sun?

> Is it any better for them to leave school in the dark?

yes, it is. you're already awake and unlikely to fall asleep at that point.

waking up for school is hard enough without the sun being up.

Sounds like this is a good case to shift class starting times to earlier in the morning, at least during the darker months. It would be a health benefit to allow children to sleep in longer anyway. And changing school start times is a lot less disruptive than changing the clock itself.

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/school-and-sleep/later-schoo...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-livin...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/teenage-sleep-remote-l...