Are there any geographical reasons for summer holidays?

Question

This is to help an 8th grade student to do her homework.

Answer 1

The reason society proposed summer holidays is so that the children could work in the fields (this is also the original reason).

The geographical reason for summer holidays is that it is hot in the summer, and schools can save on their air conditioning bills. It is also the time when most people take a vacation (would you want to visit the Statue of Liberty while it was snowing.)

Answer 2

The reason for the summer holidays was that when most of the world was farmers, they needed the children home during the summer to help with planting, plowing, weeding, harvesting, and other farm chores. So the children would attend school during the winter months when the weather was bad and there was less work on the farm, but be home during the summer when they were needed more. (This would be the other way around in the southern hemisphere, were it is summer in January and winter in July - that's where the geography comes in).

Answer 3

The school year let out during summer so kids could help with harvesting the crops. Everyone has to eat, and kids were needed to help. When schools were made mandatory in America, they only required attendence for part of the year, and that has become tradition. Nowadays, do you spend your summer working in the fields, tending crops and then harvesting things?

I do not know if schools in other countries also let the kids out during summer, but it has become tradition here.

As for geography and other holidays, geography relates to where each country lies, and each country has it's own holidays, so yes geography relates to holidays.

Answer 4

Yes. The tilt of the earth on its axis creates longer days in the summer by "tilting" the northern hemisphere toward the sun more during the summer months, creating both more hours of daylight and warmer weather in the summer. Man takes advantage of more sun and warmer weather by placing more holidays on the calendar during the summer months.

Answer 5

Yes, actually there is. As the Earth rotates on it's axis, it faces either closer or farther away from the sun. So when one half of the Earth is close to the sun, it's summer, and the farther away half would be experiencing winter.

I hope this helped you!