Daylight Savings Time is so wrong

I don't know about y'all, but the two times a year that man interferes with God's clock just make me discombobulated for a couple of weeks. This whole 'daylight savings time' is just so wrong in so many ways.

And of course the time change this year corresponds directly with our county's administration of the our state's standardized testing. Now how in the world is that supposed to work? Kids who go by what their bodies say rather than what the clock on the wall says will have their normal sleep pattern interrupted by either not getting to sleep "on time" or having to wake up before their bodies would naturally.

It's just so wrong! Of course I already think the emphasis on the xCAT is too much - I think xCAT has its place, but to be the "be all, end all" is just ridiculous. The schools spend so many months preparing the kids with test-taking strategies and learning the format of xCAT, sending notes home to parents and guardians to make sure their kids get adequate rest, a good breakfast, etc., but then schedule it at a time the time changes -- argh. I know that for our county this actually falls at a good time - leaving 7 weeks after spring break for the teachers to actually teach in the way they want to -- and I know the schools have zero control over the time-changes, but adding the two factors together -- xCAT + time change = not necessarily an accurate assessment.

Of course this may not be as bad as the year the 1st graders were given their SAT9 (now SAT10) beginning the day they returned from Spring Break.............