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Tracy O’Connell Novick

Respectfully, that is not why we have the school calendar we do. If we did, they would be off in the spring and the fall, as planting and harvesting are when the extra hands would be needed. This is far-too-common misconception. @jennbinis.bsky.social do we have a good link for this one.

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Jenn Borgioli Binis

This is my go-to! www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

Agrarian roots? Think again. Debunking the myth of summer vacation's originsWhere did the concept of summer vacation originate? Despite a long-standing myth linking a summer break to the nation's "agrarian past," historians offer a different explanation.www.pbs.org
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Tracy O’Connell Novick

Thank you! I need to bookmark that one. I am two generations off the farm, but the illusion that any farmer needs the most labor in the SUMMER (save to get the hay in) drives me somewhat bananas. Just ask for calendar changes. Don’t blame agriculture.

Angry Rutabaga

Similar to how DST is blamed on/marketed as "for farmers" but livestock farmers hate time changes & crop farmers couldn't care less…

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Abstruse Disciplines

My mother can remember when in West TN school started back in midsummer (no A/C) then got out again so kids could help pick cotton. No schedule is set in stone.

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Angry Rutabaga

And by my childhood in mechanized agriculture summer *was* when we needed the most hands, because planting & harvest were all tractor work but small square haybales had to be stacked in the mow by hand. My grandpa, though, grew up with horses…

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Angry Rutabaga

And now they're going to large square haybales so it's all tractor work. The fact we assume farm kids should be free labor subsidizing their (usually) dads is another conversation…

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Rivikah

By my childhood some kids just got pulled out of school as needed regardless of school schedules. And I've got all kinds of side-eye for kids working in the industrial workplaces also known as farms. (And the deaths stats to back me up)

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Angry Rutabaga

Oh yeah, Mom was pretty good about pushing back on us doing obviously risky work but Dad was…not. And we were teenagers—I got my "I'm indestructible!" nonsense out doing things that weren't even really fun, just work. Lucky to make it out with repeated heat injury & occupational asthma.

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Angry Rutabaga

But if your plumber showed up with his 10yo & was very clearly not doing "take your kid to work day" but rather "unpaid apprentice" you'd side-eye him pretty hard. Why should farming (& I've noticed, landscaping) be different?

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Rivikah

My parents were much more safety conscious and had us helping far later than many of their peers. And some of it was still Not Great.

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Tracy O’Connell Novick

Though the small square bales (of which I have stacked my share, as well, as recently as earlier in July!) are going in during the three hay cuts, so it isn’t daily labor; more like an all-call on the days needed. The persistence of the myth demonstrates how far removed so many are from farming.