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Heck, we have summer vacations because school kids used to be needed on the farm and then because it was too expensive to air condition the schools.
In a "scientific" world, we'd reevaluate education and make changes all the time, but people are tied to their traditions and don't want to think that the older folks had an inferior education.
I live in a rural area. If this had anything to do with farms we wouldn’t have summer vacation, we’d have fall vacation. Harvest time is far and away the busiest time on a farm
lol!
It's funny because this is what I was told back in grade school, and never thought about it, even though I know that fall is harvest time.
It's still very expensive to cool down schools in the summer. A lot of schools don't even have air conditioning, and they don't have the budget to pay teachers for two more months, much less install AC everywhere.
Don't get me wrong, I'll happily pay my school taxes to get a better educational system, but not everyone sees it that way. You'd need to raise taxes, and people are selfish.
You need to raise taxes on the people that can afford it.
Agreed. Sadly, those people have legalized bribery, and it's cheaper to buy politicians.