While most students, and adults, believe that summer vacation has been a part of the school system calendar since school began, this is not actually the case. During the 19th century, some school calendars went all year, there was no long summer break. It was not until the mid-19th century, when this began to change due to people flocking to the cities. The rich began to go to the country side due to the cities overwhelming heat and classes were left half empty because attendance, at the time, was…
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