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> American public schools have spring break and summer break as artifacts I mean those are common almost everywhere and a quick search indicates another reason
by cscurmudgeon 3y ago
> American public schools have spring break and summer break as artifacts
I mean those are common almost everywhere and a quick search indicates another reason for their origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_break https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_break
> In the mid-1930s, a swimming coach from Colgate University decided to take his team down to Florida for some early training at a brand-new Olympic-size pool in sunny Fort Lauderdale. The idea clicked with other college swim coaches and soon the spring training migration became an annual tradition for swimmers nationwide. Now, spring break is an academic tradition in various mostly western countries that is scheduled for different periods depending on the state and sometimes the region.
https://www.onlineschools.org/visual-academy/spring-break/ https://www.onlineschools.org/visual-academy/spring-break/
- DoreenMichele 3y agoThat's college spring break, not spring break for minors attending K-12. The first public school in the US colonies was established in 1635, roughly 300 years before that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_the_... I'm not readily finding a nice, neat blurb that literally says "spring break in elementary school/K-12 was so kids could help plant on the farm" but my understanding is that is correct.