School Year

Back in the good old days...before air conditioning & grocery stores...kids went to school from September to May partly because it was too hot in the summertime to be in school & there was NO air conditioning & mostly because the crops had to be worked during the summer months. Then they started moving may back due to snow days & holiday breaks to make sure they get 180 instruction days in per year. Now it seems they keep extending a little extra on each end for who knows what reason. But, heat & food were the original reasons.

The dates vary from place to place a bit, but generally school vacations, summer breaks, originated to accommodate harvest times. Children were expected to be willing and useful farm hands on the family farm. That need is long past, but the routine remains. My husband also grew up in an area that closed schools for the first day of deer hunting season, so they could go get their deer.It is still the habit.I guess that area still puts a lot of emphasis on the deer hunting.

my girls started the day after labour day and get out the end of june, so i guess it just depends on where you live. they have a 2 week vaca during christmas and 1 week off in march, but i guess it just depends.

hi anne well I was raised on a farm and farm kids were needed in the summer months to help out on the farm so school was held from sept to June, then kids were home to help their parents. but now this no longer holds true so guess its just a hold over from the early days in the US.

Originally, kids were off during the summer so that they could work on the farm. If school were held then, no one would be in class. Families depended on their children to tend the crops that most depended on for their livelihood.

lol, kids ask the most interesting questions! and your answer was what I exactly had in mind. it's too hot to be in school for the summer. i think that may be the main reason. in my country, summer season is april-may, and we start school in june and end in march.. so no school in summer as well.. but it just got me thinking, summer in australia is in december, when do they start and end the school year there? maybe start in january and end in october?

There is no specific reason behind the school year starting from September and ending in July. Here in Pakistan, some schools have their school year starting from April and ending in March. I also had the same school year. When I was promoted to new class in April after giving the annual examinations in March, we studied for only one month, then we were given three months summer vacation with summer vacation lengthy home work. Some schools here have their school year starting from January and ending in December. In my opinion, there is no specific reason for school year ending and staring in which months of the year.

I don't really know I guess other month is neither hot nor cold. Thus, the vocation start in July and end in September. So, the new term starts in september

this is the perfect period to study, because this period starts at the end of summer season and ends at the beginning of the summer season.