eric76 said:
Martin Q. Blank said:
[Please read past the question in the OP. The proposal is to move the extended school break from summer to fall & winter, not eliminate it altogether.]
Half the summer is too hot to go outside. Kids are inside anyway so they might as well be in school.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have an extended fall/winter break? Especially with the holidays and traveling.
Current summer break is 10-12 weeks. Move it to the week of Halloween and return early-mid January.
That's a terrible idea. The pansies need to toughen up and take the outdoorss.
The summer is when many farmers need the kids home to work in the fields. I grew up working in the fields six or seven days a week, 12 or more hours a day, all summer long.
Have never seen much of that. The farmers I worked for or knew about grew rice, soybeans, and milo. An intense few weeks getting fields ready and intense couple of weeks getting the crop planted, neither of which were in the summer. An intense couple of weeks in summer harvesting, some cut second growth rice but that cutting was after the summer. I used to hear about school kids working in the fields but that was 60 or 80 years ago, back before equipment began to play a large part. Maybe other crops are different, I have no experience with them.
