However, this shift in the circadian rhythm may be wonderful for getting in an extra round of golf. This seems to be the more logical explanation for why the politicians guard the ability to change the clocks every spring and fall. Children are very sensitive to any change in their schedules. When time change happens, they spend weeks adjusting their bodies to accommodate the earlier hour for waking. Time change is causing havoc in the classroom.
Children become grouchy.
They cannot focus on lessons. Teachers are also coping with physical discomfort and irritability. If our society was as dedicated to education as our politicians indicate, then the first step in improving children's standardized scores would be to stop changing the clock. Leave time alone. A pregnant woman's circadian rhythm is tampered by changing time.