Why kids get summer vacations

[GenuineRisk]

Useless but still interesting trivia on how summer vacation came to be. I always thought it was due to needing kids to work on the farm, but in fact, farm kids used to go to school in the summer.

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Miss you all much; been too busy to visit lately.

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Useless but still interesting trivia on how summer vacation came to be. I always thought it was due to needing kids to work on the farm, but in fact, farm kids used to go to school in the summer.

http://www.slate.com/id/2170230/nav/fix/

Miss you all much; been too busy to visit lately.

[Byebyemermaid]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Useless but still interesting trivia on how summer vacation came to be. I always thought it was due to needing kids to work on the farm, but in fact, farm kids used to go to school in the summer.

http://www.slate.com/id/2170230/nav/fix/

Miss you all much; been too busy to visit lately.

Let's not forget the teachers who get every holiday and summers off.My brother is a teacher.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Byebyemermaid

Let's not forget the teachers who get every holiday and summers off.My brother is a teacher.

Though most of mine went on to summer jobs!

I just thought how it came that kids are off school in summer was interesting- it had nothing to do with agriculture- in fact, the city schools wound up influencing the rural ones!

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