In rural maine, we had a "harvest break" in the middle of the fall for kids to help their farming families bring in the potato harvest. For that, we would start

In rural maine, we had a "harvest break" in the middle of the fall for kids to help their farming families bring in the potato harvest. For that, we would start a month early. Those farms have been using almost exclusively illegal immigrants for labor for decades though so most school systems up there have removed "Harvest break" to give their kids longer summers.