how did the summer break originate?
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not sure about India, but in the USA the summer break started when most people were farmers.  The parents needed the kids help during harvest season - summer - and were taking their kids out of school to get this help.  So schools started giving summers off for the harvest.
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I could never wait till school was over, but now that I graduated I really miss it, believe it or not!! Just enjoy it while it lasts - although it can be hard sometimes. Once you start working there is no summer break so Have Fun!!
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this year, my spring break starts from Mar.6-10, 2006\nand i'm only in elementary
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Assuming you are referring to May 1st by "May Day protest": Its origin is from 1889  when the international labour congress assembled in Paris, France, to establish the Second International, an international labour organisation(100 years since the French revolution). It was agreed to make May 1st as an international day for demonstrations to achieve better rights for workers. In this, the Second International succeeded, and it is noteworthy that the labour unions from the US proposed this in the first place!
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Do you mean in terms of a school calendar?   The balanced calendar is the first cousin of year-round schools and would distribute vacation days throughout the school year rather than clumping them in the summer, although it would have the same number of school days per year as the present calendar.\n\nI'm not sure where the idea originated, but in some countries it is used moreso than in Canada and the US.  It is certainly causing controversy in many states.
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First day of summer and Father's Day
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Out of! GO SUMMER VACATION!!
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The Christmas school break starts the week before Christmas it goes on till and couple of days after new year.spring break is called half term it lasts for around 3 week depending on the school. Brits have a 2 day break at Christmas 26th December is Boxing day, was traditionally the day when the gentry would give gifts to their servants, hence Boxing day the day they would open their boxes. We also get new years day off never used to, it change back in the 70s so many people went off sick on new years day that the government added an extra bank holiday.
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The theory is that most students will be vacationing in the summer and return in August-September to begin their studies...
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A busman's holiday. Leisure time spent doing what one normally does for a living. Said to originate in the days of horsedrawn buses when certain drivers became so attached to their horses that on their days off they spent their time travelling as passengers on their own buses in order to keep them company.
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Went to college - Summer classes
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Summer Holiday!!!\n(great wether, going to the beach, enjoying a cup of coffee or whatever it is you like on a terrace in town, and most of all, the feeling it gives me of being alive!!)\n\nP.s. I just read the other answers, and realize I have to explain that over here there are more periods we call : "Holiday".\nWe actually have a Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring Holiday, (the Netherlands, which must be why my reply is diffrent than that to the others)\n\nSo if I had to pick one of your holidays, it def. would be the 4th of July. (high Summer, Tour de France on TV every day over here, absolutely a fab. time for me)
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Spring and Vacation?\nI am not entirely sure what you are asking.
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July 1884\n\nI hope this helps ... the link below explains more and is very informative as well.\n\n- Alan
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They take a break in winter.Some kind of hibernates,by going into the larval stage(this,I saw in discovery channel),while others gather at a tree and try to survive in the cold by staying close together for warmth(this I got from  http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/July2000/default.htm  )
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Yes and no.  I say this because your summer is what you make it.  You have to want your summer to go well.  You first have to take the first step and want to do something with your summer.  However, in actuallity you only have about a month and a few days, so just make the best of it and everything will be all right.
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The reason for the "vacation" was because the kids weren't going to be in school anyway.  They were busy with harvest.  It was critical to the community that everyone work.  Today, it is called a vacation.  Personally, I think that kids don't see enough family time.  I also believe that they don't see much during the summer either.  Children start school earlier and earlier.  By law, they have to start school at four years of age.  It isn't enforced, but it is the law.  That's 14 years of school before college, and they want the summers too.