As we know now, those respondents were wrong, but it makes sense that they would feel that way. It was much later, however, that the idea as a whole gained momentum.Ī survey of school decision-makers in 1971 found that 84 percent of respondents felt that year-round schooling would be in all U.S. In fact, the first schools that went against the summers-off version of the academic calendar were in urban areas that did not revolve around the agricultural calendar, like Chicago and New York, as early as the mid-1800s. The time off was not implemented to accommodate contemporary concerns, like children needing “downtime” to decompress and “be kids,” but was born out of economic necessity. The traditional school year, with roughly three months of vacation days every summer was first implemented when America was an agricultural society.
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