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The Real Reason Why Children Get the Summer Off of School (2016x35)

Fecha de emisión: Feb 16, 2016

In this video: The commonly touted explanation for students having summers off from school dates back to a time when the United States’ economy relied heavily on agriculture in order to survive. Students needed to leave school in the summer in order to work on the farm alongside their families. The U.S. is no longer the agrarian nation that it once was, so why do students still get the summer off from school?