I actually cannot find that specific reference - but I did find that
urban schools were originally year-round (over 240 days), until
legislators gave in when standardizing the school year after running
into the issue of wealthy families (and some middle class ones)
leaving the high temperature cities during the summer.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/56901/why-do-students-get-summers

On 2/19/18, Caleuche <xxxxxx@sudnadja.com> wrote:
> Do you have a reference for that? I'd like to follow up on that reading
> (also, if so inclined you might want to provide an edit to the wiki page).
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On February 19, 2018 7:09 PM, Cian Witherspoon xxxxxx@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> On 2/19/18, Caleuche xxxxxx@sudnadja.com wrote:
>>
>>> And, according to Wikipedia, farming has nothing to do with it:
>>> The origins of the summer holiday break are often believed to be rooted
>>> in
>>> agriculture. It is widely believed that the school calendar follows the
>>> agrarian farming calendar because during the settlement of the United
>>> States, the nation primarily consisted of a farming population. This
>>> belief
>>> maintains that the current school calendar has a two to three-month break
>>> so
>>> that children could assume the necessary tasks of planting and harvesting
>>> crops. However, planting of most crops occurred in the spring and harvest
>>> occurred in the fall. Rural schools would often break for spring and fall
>>> seasons, but continue schooling throughout the summer.
>>
>> Well, yes and no. It is rooted in agriculture - but not for the reason
>> people believe.
>> The actual reason was to deprive farm families of the labor their
>> children provided, thus requiring them to hire replacement labor. Of
>> course, as noted above, rural school boards then just moved the
>> required education time to the summer, with harvest and planting
>> breaks taking the place of summer break.
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