There are indeed all sorts of traditions. Football teams and homecoming are traditions that seem to have little to do with education. But just like there are

There are indeed all sorts of traditions. Football teams and homecoming are traditions that seem to have little to do with education. But just like there are schools without football teams, there are also schools with year-round teaching. Tradition can't be the only reason. In the 1980s there was a big debate on if calculators should be allowed in schools. Technology won. So clearly we have technology in schools now which wasn't there in 1955.