Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-30522782-20180514172129/@comment-31780004-20180515102208

Mortised10 wrote: Karen.celedestin wrote: actually summer isn't that much of an occasion

we don't really need summer break anymore anyway You sure about that? So much stress from school. Yet we get a long summer break.

Summer break became a tradition because:

a. Farming used to be a bigger industry, so most kids had to help their parents with it at some point. We no longer have this issue.

b. Old, single-room schoolhouses were insulated but not air-conditions. Paremts pulled their kids out of school during summer to protect them from overheating. We no longer have this issue (x2).