The only reason public education has survived in the US is because industry needs a tax-payer funded babysitting service for their underpaid workers... So the

The only reason public education has survived in the US is because industry needs a tax-payer funded babysitting service for their underpaid workers... So the time of start is really determined by when people need their kids out of their hair so they can work, not because it's some optimal time for the kids...